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Yeah, same as above really. You shouldnt use this service.. It will result in trouble further down the line.

Stick to tried and proven methods

Matt

Agreed. I always install mine on the primary domain. Usually mydomain.com/news or mydomain.com/blog.

When did you submit it? Sometimes it just takes a little time to crawl.

I know loads of people who have purchased Twitter followers. There are at least 10 businesses who I have done work for who practice this method regularly. I saw an article somewhere not so long ago which claimed that 85% of Twitter accounts were spam/fake accounts and I can believe it. Users only have one goal, to shout as loud as they can but they refuse to listen to others... This just results in lots of shouting lol.

OK so you built links specifically to the landing page of your new content? Or to your home page?

Where did you get these links from? Did you buy them or build them?

Thumbs up...

However, Im not sure the self-diagnosis is correct as the sites still rank for their domain name etc... I would like to see more information on the search terms which have dropped rankings.

Please can you clarify the situation?

Neither onbetterterms.com nor springcoin.com have been de-indexed or blacklisted.

Did you get a message in your webmasters account?

Looking at the anchor text backlink profile of onbetterterms.com specifically I can see why it looks very un-natural! You have 136 links coming from only 16 domains all with the same anchor text. This anchor text appears to have nothing to do with your domain name. See attached.

For some reason it uploaded the image three times but they are all the same image so ignore two of them... EDIT You also still rank number 1 in the UK for debt eye so I'm unsure where you have been penalized. Please can you clarify the situation so we can assist.

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Do you really want to be competing with ASOS for that kind of term? I mean, sure, in the long run why not?! But for now, being such a new site, I would recommend picking off some of the smaller search terms and feeding from ASOS's crumbs.

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Yeah, use SEOMoz's very own Open Site Explorer. If you need help figuring it all out add me to Skype (Matt.GlassApple).

Try not to copy a competitors link profile though. While you may find a few useful places to get a link from by looking at competitors pages, they too might be using underhanded tactics.

It all depends on so many factors. It could be that the site hasn't been penalized but has simply lost its authority due to the bad links being ignored. If it has been penalized then it can help remove any penalty's. I have heard of one or two people trying this method and receiving responses.

Webmasters is also a useful resource for finding these bad links. Thumbs up.

No problems at all, Steve.

Your anchor text is only a small part of a big picture but it certainly looks like a stand out issue in your case.

You don't need to edit any internal anchor text though, it will only really matter for incoming links from external websites. It looks like most of these links are poor quality so instead of getting the anchor text changed, get them removed (if you can). If you do come across any links using that anchor text term which are from good and trustworthy sites then by all means keep the link and maybe ask them to change the anchor text.

You will need to concentrate on building good quality links from now moving forwards. A good place to start is with guest article writing, see if you can get some good content written and head over to MyBlogGuest, you will find blog and website owners all over the world who will be happy to accept good content in return for a link to your website within the content of the article. Remember to make your link natural - try things like "click here", "danbro", "here"... things that look like they aren't trying to manipulate Google's algorithm.

Get rid of these sites or do something useful with them. These site-wide links will be hurting you and Google will easily be able to see that you own the domain.

If you must keep them, add a blog or something to them, get some unique content on them. Invite others to guest post and link to other places other than your own website. Make the page look natural. Only link back to your site every now and then, if at all.

You have no incoming links at all for that page from any external websites. Build some links up, make sure they are natural. If you ranked for this term before now then it was due to general site strength before the Penguin update. Obviously since the update you will have lost lots of shoddy links therefore dropped in domain authority - this looks like it is having an adverse effect on subsequent pages that seemed only to rank because the domain was strong.

I feel your pain, Steve! Unfortunately these things take time. If you havent already, whip up a spreadsheet of all the remaining bad links. Add a column to explain what steps you have taken to get the link removed. Google will understand that sometimes you are not in control but you can only try. They might help with manual interventions. You can then use this spreadsheet to send them to ask to be reconsidered. It is important not to keep sending the request, fix the problem and then ask. Remember that they don't owe you anything so don't depend on this method - chances are they might not even reply!

Google have announced that a tool could be coming out soon which will allow you to tell them which links you wish to distance yourself from. Keep an eye out... Clicky.

In the mean time, don't just work on removing these bad links, concentrate on building much more good quality links in a variety of forms. Try and make your link profile look natural - over time these things will help.

On a side note, you need to add a canonical tag to your home page. Your domain loads a different homepage for http://www.yourdomain.com as well as http://yourdomain.com.

Check out the attachment to see why your link profile is so un-natural. You have 8220 links from ONLY 78 domains for one anchor text and 4047 links for another anchor text while your domain name only has 188 links.

EDIT: You haven't actually been de-indexed (see attached) so you don't need to submit reconsideration yet. You just need to sort that link profile out BADLY first.

As a token gesture to help you out in your time of need I have added a contextual link from one of my websites to your homepage with the anchor text "click here" - its a small drop in the ocean but every little bit helps make your profile look that tiny tiny tiny bit better.

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What search term as the specific page dropped for?

Oops. I only just noticed the date on this question! Sorry folks...

Agreed. However, it might be worth adding that reciprocal links can also look natural but only if they form a small part of your link profile.

Whatever you do, Jay, dont add a page called links or resources. Make sure the links are contextual links in the content of article's or content.

My way around doing this is putting them in the testimonials pages on my sites

A good example would be when I managed to get a link from Sky.com - in return they requested a link back to their site and I would be silly not to have provided one. I didn't want the link for the juice, I wanted it for the click through's. The reason I'm saying this is to show that not all reciprocal links are seen as un-natural.

It can depend on your link profile. If your inbound links have only a small percentage of reciprocal links then this will look natural. Just ensure you have a varied link building strategy and you should be fine.

One other thing to check is the quality of your distributors websites. If they involve themselves in spammy tactics when linkbuilding or writing content and you link to them it could look bad on your site. Please make sure that you don't make all your outbound links no follow though, this WILL look un-natural and will not help at all. However, if you have good website trust then you should be fine provided that your site looks very natural.

Ignore PR for now...

The important question is; are you still ranking for your keyword terms? Has site visitors gone down today?

Looks like you need to put some of your effort into building some new (quality) links and making your link profile look much more natural.

Sometimes its easy to analyse what went wrong instead of moving forwards and getting back into a position of authority. Focus yourself and think of some ideas for link baiting aswell as creating some great content - get this on your own site as well as looking for relevant sites to host some articles for you (with links back obviously).