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Linda, if the content on the blog is going to be a very very targetted content for your website audience, I would suggest putting it on yourcompanydomain.com/blog.

Also see:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-on-a-separate-domain

and

http://www.seomoz.org/q/subdirectory-vs-subdomain

I hope these help.

Well, it looks like you are redirecting your homepage to http://www.bharatdesi.com/hyderabad which to me does not make sense. Think of the user here first, SEO comes next.

All your city links in the footer work fine it seems. But if somebody gets to your homepage, it defaults to Hyderabad. If I were you, I'd just do a simple page with your logo on it on the homepage, with the links to the cities you have in your footer. That should do the job of being your homepage while your real homepage gets designed.

I hope this helps and makes sense.

If your main domain ranks very well, and your blog on a separate domain and separate IP ranks well (presuming the blog has link juice of it's own), here's what I would consider:

1. How competitive is the niche you are trying to rank ? I am presuming it's finance based of your profile.

2. If you created 2 articles, similar topics and posted 1 on the blog and 1 on the website, which would rank better and why.

If the page on your site outranks your blog page, for same/similar keywords, you should consider merging the blog into your main website and do 301 redirects from the blog to your new URL.

EG:

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/blog/$1

I hope this helps.

I agree with Paul, 100%. Just do a 301 redirect and move on. As you said, it's dropping in the SERPS and there's really only type-in traffic and there's no SEO value of it's own. Minimal PA, DA. 301 Redirect and Issue Resolved.

All kinds of links, together make up a natural link profile. Never use any one kinds of links too much. When you do that, that's when the trouble begins.

I think of Link Building as brand building. What would you do if the Search Engines did not exist ? What would you do to get your website some traffic ? The answer lies within

This is a very very common problem. What you need to do is step back for a minute and think of this not like a website, but like a real business.

1. Are the search engines seeing the signals they are looking for from a real business from your website ?
2. If you are targeting one and only one primary keyword, that's a wrong approach. Think beyond one primary keyword.
3. The points you mentioned about directory links, anchor text links and link "bombing" are obviously clear signs of problems.
4. Do you control those links ? Are there any natural links ? Have you received a unnatural links penalty ?

Do a complete audit of your backlinks and clean up what you can.

Yup, definitely. Submit it and forget it. If you get it, great. If not, don't stress yourself to it. There's not much you can do anyways.

As Robert said, it's definitely a good link. Also as Colin said, it's "very" important to submit it in the right category and the right title and description. Don't over optimize it. Keep it simple and descriptive enough.

Marie

What you could do is use Screaming Frog to crawl all the links (the combined list of ahref links and WMT and then use the custom filter to check if the domain is there, ie your link is there and  then the 2nd filter to check if there is the word nofollow anywhere on the page. It's not going to be a perfect list, because you may end up seeing a page that is linking to you, but is nofollow'ing somebody else from the same page.

But then most of the times, the regular links, they are either nofollowed or they are not. "Mostly".

I hope this helps.

Michelle, just be careful on whatever link building techniques you are using. Don't overdo any one kind of links. Think natural. Also, I'd recommend building more brand links to build your overall domain authority rather then getting the perfect SEO anchor text links. Think long term. You don't want your website to get penalized for manipulation of the SERPS via Anchor text link building.

As for your question about links to your main domain (homepage) or deep links, I'd say go for a combination without trying to do too much anchor text links. Concentrate on trying to build great content that people naturally link to and share. That would do the perfect link building for you.

I hope this helps.

James, OSE only crawls a portion of the web. Even Google can not technically crawl the entire web. There's almost an infinite amount of information and web pages out there. So as long as it's cached in Google, which it is, I wouldn't worry about it. Eventually it will show up. The good news you shared is the fact that it shows up in webmaster tools. You are good.

As per OSE, you have a total of 6 Linking Root Domains for your 1st site and 7 Linking Root Domains for your 2nd site. It's clear that you need more domain authority. I would continue to build some great content and great links to your site so that your overall domain authority increase for your domain/website to be competitive.

I hope this helps.