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You can also use Google Alerts to both monitor your competitors website changes, as well as general mentions of them on them web. Mike

Matt, tell you from the experience that your concern is right but you are missing a thing that should really consider! You are removing and disavowing all the bad links this is exactly what you should be doing (give a try on removing them because this is very important here) and then try to build so high quality links at the same time. If you see less margin of quality resources available within your niche try to do something that get you press ad authority links from media sites. This will give you some positive points in the eye of Google and get you more chance to recover!!

Hi Mathew, There are many different sources one can go to for outsourcing link building. Manual Link Building offers top-listed link building services, as does SEO Overflow; both services specialize in building links through tried-and-true methods like directory submissions, press releases, and content distribution. However, as stated before, it may be more fruitful to research the Moz community more thoroughly and discover the link-building strategies of your contemporaries. If one is not familiar with the link building resources used or if you do not have measures to check the quality of the links, then outsourcing may not be worth the time or the effort. A great guide to building links on your own can also be found at Quicksprout, which may help to illuminate your strategy without having to outsource your link-building.

Hello Mathew, I did a site:domain.com search and do still see some of the old URLs indexed so I checked the URLs using an HTTP header status code checker and they are returning the correct 301 response. I also checked the the rel canonical tag on the new URLs and they do reference themselves, not the old URLs. Therefore I see no reason to be concerned about this issue. It takes time for Google to revisit those old URLs, see the redirect, and update their index. In time the old URLs will drop off and any links going into them should begin counting toward the pagerank of your new URLs. HOW.Ever... You have dozens of geotargeted doorway pages that Google probably doesn't like, or that at least violate their guidelines. If there was an office in each location it would be the right thing to do, as you would include the geo-specific address and phone number. Since every page has the same phone number and presumably there is only one office, you are running into the same problem many other "local" businesses have had to deal with over the years. Unfortunately, there still isn't any real solution and you will have real trouble ranking in the local/maps area on Google. What to do about this is beyond the scope of this question, but if you're going to work with another SEO on this I'd recommend one who has experience with service-oriented business with multiple locations. This page would be a good place to start, and I have pre-filtered it to show only "local search" experts. Good luck!

To put it simply, Adwords difficulty is based on the competition level of other advertisers, whereas SEOMoz keyword difficulty is based on the top 10 organic search results. Adwords = Sponsored results Seomoz = Organic results In other words, don't bother with the adwords competition unless you're only interested in advertising on adwords.

So far I've only seen a beta tester of the tool post results.  Looks promising. http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-disavow-tool-released-we-tested-it.html http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/disavow-tool-beta-test-recovery-laid-bare.html

Hi, 301 redirect is best solution of your question because with 301 you can transfer your all traffic and bcaklinks to your preferred domain. You can check your domain in open site explorer and redirect domain which contain less backlinks. After redirecting you also set a preferred domain in webmaster tool for displaying your domain into SERP. Redesigning of website is really good because it gives Google fresh content of your site you can update content regularly.