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Are you using IIS? If so you might be able to do something with the Re-write Module.

Personally, I'd avoid it though. It'll just confuse things.

If you can't get the perma-link structure of wordpress to match as many of the old pages as possible then, yes, I would personally 301 the old pages to the new ones.

You'll lose a certain amount of "link juice" by doing this, but it's better than losing it all!

Hi Pashmina,

I'm currently going through a similar thought process to yourself.

I was wondering if you came to a conclusion about Wordtracker?

Anything would be useful!

Thanks - Alex

Has anyone got any experience using Guestblogit.com or Blogengage.com?

I've used my myblogguest.com for a while but I'd like to know how these sites compare.

Thanks

Yeah, started using it a few weeks ago.... and it's already yielded some good prospects that seem worth chasing.

tbh, I'm not even sure exactly how it finds the prospects, but it even seems to find some competitors links I've never found by using OSE or Majestic!

You can search by entering competitor domains or by entering keywords. The prospects will be returned and sorted into nice sections (e.g. blog, directory, business site, trusted site). So, I'm not complaining at the moment - seems to saves time and effort.

AppSumo are running a deal on it at the moment - http://www.appsumo.com/wordtracker-link-builder/?rf=srch, which is how I started using it. $99 for 6 months doesn't seem too shabby!

Thanks Keri - I'll keep an eye out for it.

PS. Liking your new "SEOmoz Staff" badge

Yes - me too. I suspect that yesterday's link scape update is causing issues, but it'd be good to know what's going on!

Might have to subscribe to Majestic

I'm experiencing severe delays trying to export OSE data into CSV over the past couple of days. Relatively small reports I ran 2 days ago are still pending!

Has anyone else noticed this?

Also my campaign rankings have not updated since 24th April - anyone else?

Logged with Moz Helpdesk but no reply as yet...

Take a look on visual.ly

You can filter graphics by category and if you find one you like, lookup the creators website/details

Yes that's definitely the way to go and if that's what you've always done, you'll probably be ok. I think problems are starting to crop up where tactics used in the past are catching up with people. That's what I'm witnessing.

It seems strange that Google are penalising sites for having shady links/tactics in the past whilst ignoring good recent content, credible links and white hat methods that should imo outweigh any older bad signals.

Wil Reynolds has put up a good post about his recent SERP experience http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/7-lessons-i-learned-while-being-banned-in-google-for-12-hours

Definitely worth a read, as is his first comment.

No need to rub it in

I'm of the opinion that Google are implementing a lot of "Absolutes" into their algorithms, which is stirring things up dramatically. I'm sure that there are huge placement errors being made in the process, but I guess their attitude is if more spam is being removed than good sites then what's the problem.

I think that now, just having a few "bad signals" could throw a site down the rankings. For instance, if your site has a few suspect links coupled with perhaps an over optimised home page for a particular keyword, then that could probably do it. This could explain why some apparently useless and unoptimised sites are getting into the top 10, after all if they're unoptimised they won't have any bad links or any over optimised/bad signals.

It's going to be a hectic and confusing time ahead for SEOs.

Yes, massive changes today. Lots of keywords have dropped like a stone, although brand terms remain strong... Seems to have hit the UK hard today.

I've seen reasonably strong sites that have never fallen before disappeared completely.

Following on from what happened to SEER Interactive a few days ago in the US SERP, I'm hoping some rankings might return over the next few days, but I doubt it very much!