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If your going to pay for links, I would just go to godaddy aucitons, find a site with a nice DA and PR and w/e other stats your looking for, put it up and place yourself a link on it.  This is 100% cheaper, not only do you own it, but your also going to be able to keep it forever.

I find paid links a waste of money honestly unless your able to get on the front page of a real pr7 or higher. Or something very rare that you couldn't buy for cheap.

I see domains that are pr3 with 50 + DA all day long on godaddy auctions for $20 total after checkout price.  I know, because I have bought many myself for projects.

You can find free templates or cheap templates as well all over online. Fiverr has people that will give you 150 + templates for websites that are actually nice for $5.00.  You could pay someone on Fiverr $5.00 to setup the site for you and another $5.00 to have someone write the content for you.  So you may have a total of $50 by the time your done.  If you do it yourself, it's cheaper obviously.

Again this is only if your going to go this route, I wouldn't do this as a ethical tactic though, because it's not.

Have a nice day.

MB

I agree with you 100%

This is what you have to do in the financial industry or you will never get anywhere.  Many of our major clients have a very ethical site and a rinse and repeat site I like to call them.  This is the only way anymore.

Have a great day and a happy holiday.

MB

There are a few things here that I think you should be aware of.

1 if you leave it like that, you will have duplicate content issues, because both of those pages are the same, the pictures are just in different places.

2. The page http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/72/221/Electrical   is a pr3 and the other is a pr1.  I would personally keep the pr3 page and 301 redirect the other page to that page so you no longer have those duplicate content issues on your site. That way if you have anyone still visit that page through old links they will still end up on that pr3 page.

3. The url structure, is a bit messy for your site.  I generally advise others to have something a long these lines. http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/electrical  this is an SEO friendly url.  I am not saying the ones you have now won't work, it's just a bit messy that's all.  Personally though if your getting good traffic to it, I wouldn't mess with it at all.  Now if you were just starting out I would say change them asap.

In the future when making new pages, I would set it up to make a proper url structure.

Have a great day.

Matthew Boley

Citations need to be for address specific, because they should all match up.  So just area specific no, because if it was possible it would allow others to rank up for local terms in any city they would like around the world.  So I highly suggest you get an address in some way.  Maybe a friends address, a home address of your own, or something in that area you could possibly use as an address.  It has to be a location that has never been used with Google local before though.

How did you signup with Google local or place page with no address?

Have a nice day.

MB

Ok great and we are also getting that together for you on our end through majestic SEO.  We can analyze the lost links and have included that in our submission.

We are also editing your disavow link list to add the # at the top with a comment. Google asks that we do that.

Have a nice day.

MB

Yes actually,

When you submit your reconsideration request make sure you get everything above I said in her message together such as your lost links overtime.  You can use those lost links as some of your advantage and make it look like you took time to remove links to your site which they like the efforts.

No one really knows how many links need to come down, but many studies show 16% of your links.  Now I have had some sites where it's 80% and some that I didn't have to remove any at all which is very odd, but yes your reading that right 0 links removed and I got back into Google for a clients site.

Don't get discouraged though if the first time you respond they turn you down.  It's pretty normal for them to turn you down the first time and then after you resubmit a 2nd time I feel that a real person views it instead of a bot/automation process which is usually the 1st time.

Have a nice day.

MB

Just remember that it can take some time.  It can take up to 6 weeks for all data to be refreshed, however I have noticed some as early as 2 - 3 weeks.  Where 3 weeks is the average.  My fastest ever is day 2 the disavow was out, we had a 48 turn around of a refresh, but haven't seen anything like that since.

Have a great day.

MB

This may not be a good answer, but at a time there was a chrome add-on that you could analyze meta tags, but at the same time there was a sticky note, it would then allow you to email, or save file after you commented on it.  This may not be 100% what your looking for, but you may want to check it out if you can't find anything else.  I wish I knew what it was called, but this was about 9 months ago I seen it and I didn't have a use for it at the time, so I got rid of it.

Have a great night.

MB

Hello,

Generally this is what I do.  I complement someones site right away.  Tell them that they are very smart for thinking of a site like theirs, etc, etc.  Talk them up and make them feel good inside.  Then offer then something if you have it to give.  I have a lot of sites that I allow others to place guest posts on , press releases, etc.. I then ask at the end of it, if I can place a link on their site.  If they respond no, then I try 1 more time with a better offer, and I leave it at that.  I have found that emailing someone over and over generally just gets old to them and they may ignore you or block you.  I try to get my point across with 1 email and make it sound good.   They already know if they are going to accept a link on their site or not before you even message them.

Have a great night.

MB

Right now, I can tell you that I have a message proving that directories will indeed get you penalized.  I had a pr4 51 authority link on a directory site that was very popular.  Google doesn't generally give you an hints on links, but they did and I have proof.  They told me to take specific directory links down that we built to very relevant sections.  Not only that, but even told me that my main url of my site I used as the keywords was still spam.

So, Google I feel is hand picking the directory sites like DMOZ, etc, etc.  I also don't feel directory sites are that high of a quality in a link anyways.  What can you really say in 30 or so words about your site.

I am not saying to stay away from them all, I am just saying be very careful, because I thought they were ok to use if you picked good ones too, but it's not.

Have a great night.

MB

When your building the backlinks to your site, are you building them only to the TLD for those keywords, or are you building them to the exact urls that pertain to the keywords you specified?

I had this issue a while back as well. For example.  We built towards domainname.com/cash-loans.html, but Google after 7 months made it come up as the TLD even though we built it to that url.  In some instances, Google can mess up indexing a site correctly.

How long ago did this happen?  It took about 4-5 weeks for ours to come back to the original url we were building to.  I also feel that sometimes, it has to do with the authority of your home page over an inner page and that your home page can be easier in some instances to rank terms up.

Have a great night.

MB

I guess this would depend on many instances.  What are you selling?  What is your site about?  Which will benefit you more?  If your selling a cd of yourself and your the author then I would say go with the author.  If your selling a 1 of a kind brand that no one else in the world has, then go with the brand name.

Eventually you may want to just do both, but since your starting, it's not a bad idea to go with brand, because it will be those are considered the most natural backlinks to your site that isn't your url.

Have a great night.

MB

Hello Jordan,

I am not sure what your using, but generally just because a video was uploaded to a site doesn't mean that it creates a new sitemap, for example in WordPress if you upload a video, it will get added to an existing sitemap.  So when a search engine such as Google crawls it again, it will see the updated sitemap.  So a automatic sitemap should work fine for you, unless your using a system that generates a new sitemap for everything uploaded, I have never heard of that, but I guess it's possible.  If that's the case I am not sure at all.  Very sorry I couldn't be of more assistance to you.

Have a great day and a happy holidays.

MB

Hello Tamra,

No I don't actually.  However since the disavow is just a devalued link in their algorithm, I am not sure what the wait is for?  When Google manually analyzes your disavow list that your suppose to tell them about in your reconsideration letter, it's going to let them know that you have a list that needs devalued.

It's going to take some time for them to answer, it's going to take a while for your site to refresh they call it due to the disavow tool.  We do about 5 - 10 sites per day right now for others and found that the normal time for a refresh of data is about 3 weeks. However it all depends on the site and the amount of backlinks it has pointing to it and that your disavowing.

When your resubmitting your reconsideration letter I would personally use the lost data from majestic seo telling you how many backlinks you lost recently.  You can actually use this data to show Google how many backlinks you were able to take off of your site.  Maybe you contacted admins, maybe you didn't, etc, etc... However I have learned that it helps a lot.

So far we are 10 out of 10 in the past 10 message from Google allowing the site to get back into Google.

Get personal with Google when your writing your reconsideration letter, don't lie of course, but tell them how much your site means to you, and it's your chance at helping you get some extra income, and your really looking forward to this site so it can change your life in some way. Maybe your using it to help others?  Maybe your giving a certain amount to donations that you earn?  All of these factors if you do them can help them determine. They like personal messages I have found.

If you just write a 100 words telling them that you did what they asked and nothing else, your chances aren't as good as getting personal with them, maybe even joking, tell them you are in SEOMOZ asking others, and your very concerned about this.

Have a great night and sorry I couldn't link you to any hard concrete evidence.  I have found that there aren't to many other companies out their submitting more per day than we are, so I never looked for any evidence on the net for a time delay in submitting one.

MB

Just as a side note, I would be careful with myblogguest.  I have about 92 sites we update with their articles and allow others to post on our sites. We have been getting very low quality posts lately.  So bad that we rejected 19 articles today alone.  I feel that they aren't analyzing the content as good anymore.  Maybe they are getting understaffed and not analyzing as much as they should.

This could jeopardize the quality of sites that your writing great articles for which in the long run could hurt your site if you have 50 links pointing in from penalized domains. I am just thinking long term, this wouldn't happen overnight of course, but if they don't start passing better quality through their it won't end good for them.

If they keep passing content like they did today to my sites, I see BMR ban happening all over again from Google.

Sure guest posts are ethical, but if the sites aren't quality which ='s high quality posts and interesting content, then it's not a quality site, which means you don't have a quality link.

Have a great night.

Well SEO in my opinion is not just SEO anymore, it's marketing.  So anything that can help the process such as web design, programming, writing is important now for content issues.  SEO though is something you have to really learn on your own, by the time a college learns what it is, they can't fully teach tactics, because SEO tactics change often.

I personally have a Bach CIS degree and a Masters MISM degree.  I found that they helped me a lot. I mastered in databases, but learned web design, programming, and much more that has helped me start my own company years ago.

I would advise if your looking o get into SEO that you start trying to rank up sites yourself if you already haven't to figure out how to do it.  SEOMOZ.org is a great place to find out info from a lot of very smart people.  Your in the right place asking some good questions.  Keep it up and you will be their.

Have a great night and a happy holidays.

Just as a note I would use dynamic meta tags that pull from titles, descriptions, for your meta info for each page so you don't run into duplicate meta issues.  As for the sitemaps, that's a great question, I know there are many automated systems you can plugin to your site to auto generate sitemaps.  I wish I knew more about them.  I personally use WordPress for just about everything now, because it's easy to use and it has 1000's of useful plugins.

Have a great night.

Did you receive a message from Google for unnatural link building or a specific message in your webmasters?  If you didn't you don't actually have to submit a reconsideration request.  However if you did receive a message from them, then you can submit it right away after your disavow.  They will manually analyze everything and can see your list if they choose to take that into account for your problems you had due to a message or penalty.

Have a great day.