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Our rankings have dropped considerably since the 5/22 Penguin update.

Improving your MozRank is not a guarantee of improved rankings in the SERPs. While the MozRank is fairly indicative of PageRank, it is by no means the same, and something that affects MozRank may affect your Google rank differently. Also, changes to your site may not be initially recognized by Google as Chris said, whereas Moz can detect those changes immediately. Finally, if you make too significant of changes to your webpages, Google may recognize that as a sign that the site has changed (as opposed to slight content modification), and your rankings will be more easily affected.

In the latest links CSV dating back to 2008, only about 20 links from Yahoo are displayed. Some are from dir.yahoo, and some are from marketplace.news. A search for inurl:yahoo.net websitename shows almost 3,000 results.

Google WMT says I have over 33,000 backlinks from Yahoo.net, linking to 4 different pages on my site. I am not sure if these are nofollow or not, but I would assume they are. It also says I have almost 4,000 links from feedblitz. Should I be concerned or do something about either of these two things? I am pretty unfamiliar with RSS feeds.

Well, with more pages you will have more opportunities to go after different keywords and offer new original content. As long as the content isn't duplicate or spammy, I can't imagine you would be hurt for simply expanding your website. Even if you added a bunch of internal links to your new pages, as long as your pages still look natural it shouldn't be a problem.

I am currently getting links to my site where the anchor text is, say, domainx.com. However, my website's url is domainy.com - the anchor text is the url of another website. Is this hurting my website in the SERPS, or making my link building look unnatural? The link is on the blog roll of another website, so it has produced hundreds, maybe thousands of copies of this anchor text link. Does that have any impact on my ranking as well?

I would like to follow-up with a question on this.  If we already have a blog, that is currently a completely separate URL - should we transition the blog back to the main site?

The blog is currently only about 10-15% of the traffic of the main site, we do update it frequently.  I am thinking we might be better off moving it.

Anyone been through this?  A few years back, a separate URL worked well, but I realize this does not help use much these days with google...if we were starting from scratch there would be no way we would be doing this.

Thanks community!

Thanks Robert.

blog. subdomain version /blog after main domain name

While i posted something contrary a few minutes ago..MANUAL directory submission cannot hurt.  However, I doubt it helps much these days.

At this time, we have many 1-5 ranked keywords, and have given up directory submission altogether on it.

Recommendation (that we are still trying to figure out..)Write articles, post blogs build a Tribe that follows you - its a new world!  Forget the tricks.

Hi.  I am not sure anyone knows the answer to this..yet.  However, we have dropped most 'spam/scam' techniques and now simply getting on forums/blogs and answering questions (like this!), that make sense and are on track.  This truly is grunt work but worth it in the end.  You want evergreen content, and want folks to track down your site and what you have to offer.  My opinion is that the 'art' of link building and those that do not have domain knowledge in areas is a rapidly dying profession.

One thing...We focus on hiring writers (zerys) that can write on our topics (original content) that we post on article sites, and write GREAT original content on our site (at least we think so).

We are just dabbling in video, motion graphics etc but not seeing the benefits yet. TBD

Finally, we definitely try our best to get our 'info graphics' and guest blogs out on good PR/ranked sites, offering 'hey your link is broken' etc...not much there but a few here and there which we believe add up.

I know this doesn't help much, but having lived through the old school (techniques that used to work), we definitely know this is not the case anymore.

Best!

Guys, I have an interesting dilemma that the team here is discussing and wanted your input here is the situation:

1. We had our home page rank for a key word 4-5 on google for the past 2 years.

2. About 5 weeks ago, the home page and a sub page began ranking on top 10 for the same term.

3. Today, the sub-page a "What is page" ranks 3-5 on google and the home page is dropped somewhere like 22 or so now

** I believe I should begin redirecting that anchor text to the sub page, and maybe even some or all of our internal anchor texts to this page...

Any recommendations?  The home page is optimized to help get conversions, so we hate to 'give up' on that term, but any one run into this? What did you do?

Thanks Community SEOMOZ! for any input...

Thanks! I appreciate the responses.  Now on to more quality content!

Hi,  we put up a page 2 years ago (available from our home page) that is currently ranking in top 5 for a few of the key words we built it for.  The challenge is we did this quickly and know we can (and actually have) built out a better quality, informative page.

The content while similar is completely rewritten.  Does anyone have experience in rewriting low quality pages that are ranking well?

Essentially we are trying to step up our game and build up our quality from a human perspective, but unsure what/if any would happen with our SEO and keywords we are currently ranking for.

Thanks!

Recently I discovered an opportunity for a link on the Better Business Bureau, but it cots $600/yr. In my niche I want the link for nothing more than link building. Is the link worth paying for? (I read the YouMoz post on the subject, but still no definitive answer).