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It relates to elements that are floated. Options are left, right, both or none. So if you have "clear:left" then this element can not have any floated elements to it's left and would therefore be bumped to the next line.

The product 1 image doesn't seem to exist. Are you sure you don't have it cached in some browsers? Follow this link and press F5 to see if it loads - it doesn't for me.

http://www.just-insulation.com/007-graphics/popular/01-prod.png

There are no links to this site. I also had a quick look at ahrefs.com and there are zero links (also searched for with and without www). If you've only submitted to a few directories then it's possible they weren't approved.

I would also recommend moving hosts. Shared hosting is so cheap these days, If you look around you can find decent hosts who are much quicker than GoDaddy and are still very well priced (I don't use WordPress though so don't have any recommendations for you).

I agree with Mike, this is the article I was going to point you towards.

So in summary: You can stop yourself from passing page rank to another site by adding a nofollow but you cannot save yourself from losing link juice by adding nofollow. This has been the case for several years already (If you go on what Google is saying).

No this isn't a problem because all the www requests for your site are being correctly 301 redirected to the non www version. But all the links being built for the www version will also count for the non www version.

Lynn posted a link where lit looks like you are losing links but have a look at this version:

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/www.ppp.net.nz

It looks like your SEO is building links to www.ppp.net.nz instead of ppp.net.nz and the link acquisition rate shown above is definitely going to look unnatural.

Low quality links are not worth the hassle. if you are building 40 a day that is most likely going to end up in links that you have to try remove in the future which is much, much harder work. I've spent months cleaning up a link profile before Google lifted the penalty.

I would be very concerned with this strategy. If they are building 40 links per day then these are almost certainly going to be low quality and artificial looking links. The anchor text of a link is not the only way that Google judges if a link is artificial or not. You could be digging yourself into a much bigger hole. I also think the general consensus is that branding should be higher than 50%, maybe around the 70% - 80% mark.

Personally I would focus on obtaining some high quality, authoritative links and at the same time try to remove as many of the spam links as possible.

Check your analytics and see if you can match the dates your traffic dropped with any algorithm updates.

http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change#2013

I have experienced the same situation with specific keywords where there were too many external exact match anchor text links. Removing these links where possible is slowly fixing the problem.

Subdomains and root domains are not necessarily always owned by the same person and therefore will not always be given the same penalties. As Scott mentioned, they are seen as different sites.

e.g. If I create a new WordPress account and create me.wordpress.com and then build a black hat site which gets penalized, this is not going to affect you.wordpress.com or  www.wordpress.com.

My opinion is that freelancer.com is not a good place to find quality SEO services. The problem is that developers are competing against low cost workers in places like India which is forcing everyone to drive their prices down and the end result is that the quality of work delivered suffers too. Everyone is trying to turn a quick profit by doing as little as possible.

I would agree with the above comments, this is not a quality SEO package as it is mostly based on strategies that used to work but have drastically been devalued by search engines recently (do some research on Google Penguin for instance) and is more likely to get your website penalised in future. I have sadly had the experience of trying to recover from these penalties and trust me when I say it's not something you want to go through.

Why do these guys have great reviews? it could be a number of reasons. As mentioned already the reviews are not all genuine. Another major reason is that the majority of the users buying SEO services do not understand that what they bought was low quality! They see the work has been delivered quickly and are happy and offer a good review, they may even have an initial improvement in rankings. What the review may not tell you is that they picked up a penalty months down the line when the work is paid for and Google has caught on (it's happened to me).

What would I recommend  The sad truth is that today when buying SEO services you need to become fairly SEO savvy yourself because there are still far too many black hat SEO's trying to make quick money who will offer you these services. Spend time on this forum, read the articles and become familiar with which tactics are future proof and which tactics are now considered black hat and dangerous. This way to can judge for yourself if a proposal is offering you value. Try find a local agency or freelancer who you can talk to easily or meet in person rather than someone who will do quick work and then you will never be able to contact again. Link building is an expensive game now because there is no quick, safe and easy way to get results any more!  If you have a low budget then go after one quality link pre month rather than 100's of rubbish links. You need to find the right people who have the skills to get your content in front of the right people in your industry and build natural links.

It's probably not what you wanted to hear but hope that helps in some way.

Do you want to give me the old url to double check for you? You can personal message me if you don't want it to be public.

If you used the remove URL tool to only remove page 1 from the index then that's why it won't be ranking, I'm guessing page 2 wasn't removed using this tool? I don't think the canonical tag would help you in this situation as you're now telling Google that page 2 is the same as a page you've already told them not to index!

Just to confirm, when you used the redirect checker did you put in the old url and it says 301? It's worth using the fetch as GoogleBot tool inside Webmaster tools and then adding the old url to be crawled again so that they can see it has been moved permanently. If the 301 was only implemented properly 2 weeks ago there is still the chance it will come back!

It sounds like you went about this in the wrong way. What you should have done first is 301 redirect the old url to the new url and then update all you sites links to also point to the new url. You have used webmaster tools to specifically tell Google not to index that page and therefore it has lost all of it's authority (the 301 would have passed most of the authority on from the start)

Use this tool and insert your old url and make sure the header returned definitely says "301 Moved permanently". How long ago was the 301 implemented? It may still recover once Google picks up the redirect.

In Umbraco you have total control over you html, meta tags, page names etc. so there's not anything that should cause you SEO issues. You may find this link interesting though, there are a few packages you can install to make life easier.

http://blog.mattbrailsford.com/2010/07/15/10-essential-umbraco-packages-for-seo/

Thanks Greg.

Sangeeta, At the moment these are your top anchor text terms:

• transcription services - 882 links
• transcription services - 601 links
• transcribe - 402 links
• gmr transcription - 335 links
• transcription company - 177 links
• digital transcription - 173 links
• www.gmrtranscription.com - 166 links
• audio transcription - 164 links

As mentioned already though, many of these are sitewide so you should be able to address the percentages fairly easily by contacting some of these sites and asking for the links to be changed.

Is your website www.gmrtranscription.com?

If yes then it's very possible you have been hit by one of the recent updates which target over optimised backlink profiles. You have over 800 links with the exact anchor text "transcription services", which your most linked term, many of these are also sitewide. These links do not look natural to search engines and I would recommend that you try and get them changed.

A natural link profile would mostly contain your brand name or url and then have a wide variety of other terms. I think you need to try to address this balance.

Hi Nocolai,

No problem. Yes, having the link from only the homepage should help. This often happens when a website uses the same template for the whole site which means the link becomes a sitewide link and looks unnatural to search engines. Double check that there is also some anchor text or an image because it didn't look like there was any when I checked. If they are adverts then the links should use nofollow.

I can certainly feel your pain as I have also recently trying to get links removed.

One thing I have noticed is that you have about 18000 links pointing to your site with no anchor text. I had a quick look at a few of these links and they look like this:

<a <span="">id</a><a <span="">="flags" class="dk" href="</a>http://www.texaspoker.dk" title="Texaspoker.dk" target="_blank">

Do you know what the purpose of these links are? As there is no anchor text the links probably aren't visible to users and they are also not nofollowed, these look very spammy and I would get them changed if possible.