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Thanks Moosa for the kissmetrics post - it looks very helpful for our pricing project. We'll see if any other Moz members finds the original post.

About a year ago there was a MOZ blog showing a 3 tiered product offering (similar to a gold, silver, bronze type offer), with option 1, 2 and 3 next to each other in a single row. As I recall, option one was an ebook (lowest price), option 2 was a printed book at a middle price, and option three was the printed plus ebook for the SAME price as the printed book. The article discussed why this offer compelled more customers to choose the most expensive option by pricing it the same as the middle item in a three part offer.

After much searching in the blog, we were unable to find this article again. Does anyone remember this article, and if so, do you have a link?

Thanks,

Les and Michelle

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

Any idea on "why" people do this? It's an obviously spammy URL that they would go to over and over.

And for Robots.txt file for these spammy links, are you referring to using the "disallow" function for this file name?

Thanks Chris,
Michelle

Good morning,

I've been using the redirection plugin on my wordpress site and noticed i have multiple IP addresses going to the same folder on my site - like "mydomain.com/folder-name/". The "folder-name" is obviously not anything remotely like any folder or file name I have on my domain - so it's obviously spammy in nature.

And, there are multiple IP addresses going to this same URL address every 3 hours on the dot, so it's appears automated.

Is this something to be concerned about? Should I "do" anything?

Thanks in advance for reading and replying!

PS - I just realized that OSE says the 50,000 netnewspublisher .com links are NOFOLLOW - If that's the case, should I not bother with these (can no follow links cause you a problem)?
Thanks

Hi Sha,

Yes - there is one post comment with our URL in it on one page from this site. The pages that are showing in OSE are not identical copies of each other, but unique URL pages with different content - but these pages do not have a link to my site that I can see.

As best I can tell, all the links coming from so many pages is because each page has a "recent comments" section on it. I'm "guessing" when the comment containing the backlink to my site was on each of these pages in the "comment section", it was discovered as a backlink when the page was crawled - could that happen?

I'd be happy to share a URL if I could do so privately with you?

And per what luwhosjack says, my home page that was linked to so I can't really change the URL.

And, I have seen significant drops in my traffic on some pages since May 22 when Penguin hit, but I have no manual penalties. Upon investigating my backlink profile, I have many malicious sites linked to me from Poland (Google says not to open their site) -I'm hoping I can just disavow these since Google agrees they are not good sites.

Plus, I'm seeing at least one competitor and MANY other sites linking to me, but when I go to their page,  my url is in their source code, but the webpage is different than all the text that's in the source code (like the source code is a bunch of text on the subject - but the visible webpage is salescopy or optin forms). I don't know what to make of this???  I would presume this is something Google would not approve of and I shouldn't be associated with it - do you agree?

Thank you

Hi Dana,
Thanks for your response. Well, it's not paid. I had 8000 backlinks in WMT before, now I have 58,000. This is the biggest spike I've had before for sure (that I'm aware of) - so it is a big jump for us.
This apparently has been going for for a few weeks to a month - the post that was added to their site has linked (perhaps a blogroll is the best term) through all of their pages, creating all these links.
Still think that's "ok"?
What would I look for in OSE to see if we are "dropping over time"? Not sure what you are referring to?
Thanks!

Hi All,

I'm new to evaluating backlinks, but I just saw I got over 50,000 links from a backlink that was added on ONE page at this site here: http://www.netnewspublisherDOTcom.

I presume this is not a good thing, and if I contact them to remove the one link on the one page, it won't solve the other 49,999 links that Google is seeing pointing to us, so what do I do??.

Should I contact them and ask to remove it and see if they don't and then disavow?  Or would you just tell Google to disavow the whole site?

Thanks!

Hi Chris,
Thanks - BTW - I don't have 200 links in my footer - I have 200 pages on my site, with about 20 navigational links in the footer.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your response.

So for #3, you wouldn't mess with malicious sites - just go straight to a disavow?

For #5  - I'm glad it's not "that easy" then for people to tank one another.  Can you clarify when you said "It's the links that cross a certain threshold of strength AND fit the mold of inorganic that trip the filter."  I don't quite follow what you mean.  Is this an example of if you haven't been doing any link cleaning for 5 years (like we have) we may have exceeded a certain number and now it will "bite us"?

For #6 -  you say "Don't worry about anchor text within your own site, as long as it's not crazy ridiculous".  Right now, we have 200+ pages on our site - which makes 200+ footer anchor text links - I can't imagine this could be an issue as we don't have a big site - do you agree? We did use a KWP in our footer really because it's descriptive of what our page was about and helping people understand - but i have since changed it to be safe.

Our biggest traffic drop was right on Sept 27/28 - we moved to 1/2 of the traffic we had prior to that - and I understand that was a Panda update. We do have some definite quality issues. I thought if you lined up your traffic drop to a Panda update that's how you could tell?

Thanks