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To be fair, Google will not send him an email to say he should use this tool.

If there was an issue, he would have received a message via WMT indicating there was quite a lot of unnatural links pointing at his site.

Ian, you can contact this site via Twitter -

https://twitter.com/Ourlipsarsealed

They last tweeted 15 hours ago so they are active.

Send message via Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/miguel.vg.399

Hi ian,

As a first step, it would be worth contacting the website directly and simply asking them to remove the links.

The tool is what you use if all other methods fail. It's obvious that such a large volume of links with identical anchor text from a site of that nature is not going to help you.

Use http://whois.net/ to find their contact details and drop them an email.

Hi Brian,

I'm pretty sure this can't be done. It would be worth deciding on which account has the greatest amount of influence and then messaging everyone on the other account to inform them that it will no longer be used.

Can I merge or combine two or more Twitter accounts into one?

• There is currently no way to manage multiple Twitter profiles from a single account or merge multiple accounts into one.
• We are unable to migrate data (Tweets, following, or followers) from one account to another.
• If you no longer want one of your accounts, we recommend that you leave one account inactive (or deactivate it, if you want) and tell your followers to find you at your preferred account.

https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/107-my-profile-account-settings/articles/20169956-how-to-manage-multiple-twitter-accounts

Hope this helps,

Mark

Without knowing what your site is and doing analysis, it's hard for us to say.

It could be a factor. It could also be due to other algorithm changes.

If you've dropped in position that much, doubtful it's due to competitors being aggressive in their strategies.

Glad you got it sorted Jonathan - Original spreadsheet opened up fine for me in Excel

If you don't mind Jonathan, you could drop me a PM with a link to the spreadsheet so I could take a quick go at fixing it up for you?

Hi Jonathan,

If it's simply Excel displaying the content incorrectly, you can follow these steps -

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-names-by-using-the-convert-text-to-columns-wizard-HA010102340.asp

If not, I can see if I can offer any other advice then.

Cheers,

Mark

Do you mind giving us a link to your site?

Unfortunately there is no clear formula about how to improve page rank.

X Articles X Pages = ?

But as Jonathan suggested, if you can increase the number of links from high quality sites, it should have a positive effect for you as long as the on-age optimization of your site is pretty good.

Hi Dominic,

Maybe I'm mis-understanding.

You want the title tag to be 'A Place To Rent' ?

Or do you mean on category pages you will have 'Dublin | A Place To Rent ' ?

Sorry, you didn't explain fully what you meant.

One of the real questions would be - Why are you paying for a link?

Why not approach them with great content and work on building a relationship with them so you earn the link from them? You could save yourself money and it could lead to future links.

A one off payment for links isn't a good link building strategy.

Hi there,

Do you mean import a list of Twitter usernames to add as contacts?

I don't believe it can be done unfortunately from what I can see.

Hi Hiren,

Without going too much into depth with analysis, it's easy to see your title tag for that page is keyword stuffed.

Also the page hasn't got any great content on it.

In terms of the overall domain, a quick look at your backlinks reveals that you haven't done much off-page link building.

You just need to do a lot more work unfortunately.

Mark

Hi Mark,

Just to clarify, the complete number of backlinks to their site is 13500? I would be quite cautious about deleting 90% of them. I'm sure some of them stand out as more toxic than others. It would be worth focusing on them first.

I know a lot of people have mixed opinions about link cleanup (whether it should be done or not) but if you managed to delete even half of the poor quality links to the site, it should be a clear enough message to Google that you're taking the warning seriously.

If a re-inclusion request fails, you could go deeper then.

Haha - I was wondering the same thing recently. Thanks Matt!

Hi Mark,

I've had to do a lot of backlink analysis and removal before so this is my view.

If the directory lists links in an unnatural looking manner (i.e. just a long list with little text about the link), I would remove it. Some directories have managed to avoid any algorithm updates for now but I'm sure they will eventually get hit.

The volume of link removal you do will really depend on how large your back link profile is. I had to work through about 20,000 links which needed to be removed as they were from low quality article sites and directories. We received the unnatural link warning in GWMT and filed a re-inclusion request. This got turned down and so we had to dig even deeper into the links pointing to our site.

Just be consious of how many 'good' links you do have. If you go straight into removing a lot of directory links and leave yourself with very few 'good' links to your site, it could be an issue for you. It's really your call.

Personally, I'd remove them if the directory looks poor, has no social media presence and looks spammy.

Hi Debal,

Maybe I'm interpreting you wrong but there is no quick answer to this.

You appear to be ignoring the advice already given to you by Brad. You need to spend more time reading about link building, and more time reading about on-page optimization.

There isn't one thing you can do to achieve the rankings you desire.

Cheers,

Mark

Sorry, what do you mean specifically?

How long will it take for specific keywords to achieve high rankings?

This really depends on the level of competition for these keywords, the amount of on-page and off-page work you do and so many other factors. No one can guess a time frame for this.

If your client is being quite forceful about this, you really should pass that 'Beginners guide to SEO' onto them as well. Achieving rankings takes time. And even then, there are no guarantees.

Hi Debal,

The first problem I encountered with that site is that it's very slow. The images in the slideshow are around 150KB each.

I really think you need to focus on a lot of on-page optimization before off-page is even considered.

As Brad suggested, them guides are a great first step to finding the best practice. You really can't use 10 keywords in a URL and also, you can't target 10 keywords per page. You should be focusing on a keyword or at most two keywords per page. If you go beyond this, you might have keyword cannibalization problems.

Please read the guides Brad linked to. It will answer the questions you have.

After reading them, we would be more than happy to help you.

Cheers,

Mark

No

No

And no

To be honest (don't take offense), you need to learn to do real marketing. Everything you've mentioned is not proper marketing. It's a cheap and deceitful way to gain traffic and no, these methods are massively frowned upon.

If you ever stop to question the approach you're taking, it's probably the wrong method.

Write proper content. Create great engaging videos.

Keyword research tools such as Ubersuggest (which is free), Adwords Keyword tool are a good place to start.

Yeah - It would be very foolish to use this or any article submission sites.