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Ok this answer is half so i am not really sure why it is appearing on every page of the website... there must be something wit the comment plug-in he is using... (I may be wrong on this)

But your real concern that Google will find it spamming... I don’t think so... and one of the reason is that your anchor text is similar to your domain name and this is one think that makes it natural...

I would recommend not using Blog Comment as a way to generate links on your site as Google will count as SPAM!

SEOmoz dose have a Rank checking tool and here is the link to it http://ranktracker.seomoz.org/

hope this helps!

Ok, here are the few possibilities to see if anyone fits for you...

1. May be any page of the website is passing the internal link to this URL (by mistake)
2. Check if the link is available in the sitemap you have on your website

And if it is passing a 404 error that means the page is no more available on the website so the best thing you can do is to redirect the URL to index.html

To be honest its difficult to come up with any name but there are several things you can consider...

Search within the SEOmoz community... see what their activity rank is?... see how they perform in daily blog comments, in QnA section and select few... Talk to them...compare prices and services and i am sure you will find some one fit for you!

Pro tip: Cheap prices usually offer cheap services...

Chapter 5 by SEOmoz Guide... Good choice David!

Hey Tan,

I would agree with Chenzo to a higher extent! I think if anyone offers you that he/she will build 50 links per month sounds more like a shit to me and honestly you are going for a lousy services if you are going for this...

Good Links build itself (naturally) and if you give reasons your audience to link to you then there are no way they will not link to you...just find a person who creates awesome content and with that a great promotional plan you will started to see the improvement in links, ranking, traffic, leads and finally sales and branding....

The key to rock in search engine to place and set yourself as an expert and not as the one who got nothing but a sales page for their customers and egger to rank on the first page of Google...

Choose the people/companies (may be within the SEOmoz community) and talk to them interview them ask them how they will promote you and if they sounds logical as well as profitable to you then go for it... Remember, I will make you on the first page of Google is neither logical nor profitable...

Good luck with search!

Cesar, I think you are missing something here!

Let me go step by step...

About your first confusing like why your many keywords go down but you are still ranking for one of your main keyword... well honestly Google’s penalty can be limited as well especially if you have a Big site it is fairly possible to have limited area to be affected by the update IMO.

Now the thing that you are missing here is links... it’s not only your on-site content (Although it’s good to remove the onsite errors as well) try to get in to links and see what low quality links are pointing to your website and remove them... try to build authority links and build new and great content to get out of the update...

It’s not really an easy and a quick job but to be honest until now this is the only thing to get out of Penguin!

Thanks right Kari! Adding sitemap to webmaster tools is all that is needed and search engines will pick the website itself...

Ryan is right all you will receive after that is offers that will take you money away from your pockets...

You simply don’t need to go for it!

I think you are playing safe till now... depending on your link building, content marketing and Social Media efforts you can measure the time and impact of your success.

I think asking out for outsourcing is great unless you know that service provide is going to help you instead of getting a shit out of the money you are investing.

I recommend you to go for a freelancer or company who have a good name or have done something for community... and have good idea for your company to work on...

Keep that in mind if all idea they have is directory submissions and article submissions and Yahoo answers then you are wasting your time indeed!

Zach this is something I have already dealt with...

1. OSE will never show you all the links I would highly recommend you using Open Site Explorer as it will give you the detail link of back links...
2. Using Network of site is a BIG no... Try to remove as many links as possible and submit the reconsideration request to Google.
3. Build quality links to the website... as many as possible
4. I have witnessed the limited penalty due to unnatural links because you are overlooking the links that are not shown in OSE.

Try the suggestions above and you will be get some traffic back and this is the time when you should submit your reconsideration request again!

I dont think Demoting links will be a good idea!

Although there is less but one thing that you might be missing is the removal of dead links or low quality links that are pointing to your site…

Is there any network of sites that are pointing back to your website? If yes try and remove the links from network sites or site-wide links that are pointing back to you.

I think removal of bad links is going to help you get well in search engines.

Yep it is different! If you prefer the new version of the URL that is non-www then i would highly recommend using 301 Redirection from www to non-www pages. And your issues will be resolved in days...

On my personal website i did the same as i prefer the www version for my site!

Joel, this happens to one of my client that few of his targeted land pages were not ranking and supporting pages were performing well instead of the main pages...

At that time there was no option to demote site links, so what i did is to get internal links from within the content to major pages and get some quality external links points to the major pages and boom... search engine gets it...

I guess in your thing you have to get more external links pointing to the major URL (off course if all other on-pages issues related to indexing are already fixed!)

Hope this helps!

In the general analysis of your website the website seems good enough and properly optimized. The links seems to be relevant to the niche (in a quick overview) although the distribution of links pointing to internal pages is quite low but this should not cause this problem.

It’s difficult to solve this problem from this side of the corner but access to analytics and webmaster tool might help... take a deeper look in to analytics and webmaster tool and you might figure out where the exact problem is!

As this case is very interesting to me let me know if you need any help from me and i would be happy to assist you!

I am one of those who have spent lot of time on Guest posting and looked at it from many different perspectives...

As a matter of fact all my post are good (IMHO), but I can churn out only 2 or 3 masterpieces per month.

The number in this time seems like your posts are really worth reading for your niche and you deserve the wider eye balls then you are currently getting but I still think that Guest Blogging to high Authority and Trafficked websites for you is important and you should offer your content to highly quality blogs in your niche.

At the same time you should have some attraction on the blog that grab the readers and visitors attention and make them visit again and again...until your over all authority go increased in your niche.

Once you have kind of name then you can always skip the guest blogging to 3^rd party websites but at the same time you will get offer from other bloggers to allow them to write on your blog.

So, Guest blogging allow you to build your authority and chance to get more content on your blog for free.

I think Guest Blogging does not offer you links only but it offers you to brand yourself in your niche which is more important than anything else.

Penalty can be limited and i have seen websites that drop its ranking for few keywords or few areas of the website got hit by the update! so its fairly possible!

Tylor if you are not making any major changes to the website then there can be two things that I can come up with.

Try to set Google Alert of this keyword and brand name to see if no one is doing low level link building on your website (keep a check on competitors)

And other thing that is not in your hand is Google testing... Google randomly test many things so may be due to this your site is affecting and as you said that it fixes itself then you don’t have to care much about it and it will be normal soon.

That right check when the traffic has dropped and then the current changes in the website (if done any) if there is nothing major has been changed on your website and dates where the traffic has been dropped is close to the Panda or Penguin update then you are one of the millions of culprit.

Check your Google webmaster tools and see if you see any link request and if not then you have to get in to doggy links and remove then and tell Google about it...  If you will be way to lucky your website will come up in rankings or otherwise you have to delete as many doggy links as possible and build as many high quality links as possible.

To see your complete link profile try and get the links from Majestic SEO, Google Webmaster Tool or more and if you are good with budget then try and use the Link Removal software to spot and remove as many bad links as possible.

Hope this helps!

I don’t see any problem with SEO competition in general but i guess there are few things that should also be considered as important:

• Only white-hat tactics will be used to build links and content to the website
• No low quality link building should be done
• Content should be unique and original and should create to enhance user experience and not search engine experience.

I also feel that instead of measuring 1^st page ranking as an indicator, the success of the project should be based on number of leads a project generates at the end of the project.

Hope this helps!

I think with the ideas given above.. i don't see any point where this competition go black hat!