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I have noticed the same thing it takes a while for your profile to display the points even when you hover over the image and more points are displaying. But rest assured within a day or so the system propagates and adjusts on all the areas to match. If you have no activity and the points after few days doesnt show up let us know

Hi there, It is hard to tell without more information about the links themselves, but I'd suggest that you try to track these links down and work out whether they seem good quality or not. To be honest, it doesn't sound like they are because there are so many only going to a few pages! If they are nofollowed, then they shouldn't really be hurting you, if they are followed, then you may need to decide if you want to try and get them removed - if you feel they are hurting your rankings and have caused the traffic drop you mention. If they are the cause of a traffic drop, chances are that you'll have received a link warning on Google Webmaster Tools or have a manual action which you can see. Here are a couple of other articles on link analysis and finding / identifying low quality links which may help you: http://www.stateofsearch.com/step-by-step-guide-finding-low-quality-links/ http://moz.com/blog/how-to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings I hope that helps! Paddy

I would worry about the anchor text but not because it will make my link profile look unnatural but because of the branding issues. I mean if this is a link that is also transferring some targeted traffic to my website then I would really want to change the anchor text or else it will kill the user’s experience who is working on my website. If the links are in 1000’s this is really shocking and a spammy signal to Google so if you can down the number awesome or else try to get your link removed from their website. Hope this helps!

And the answer of Matt Cutts : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk&feature=em-uploademail-new

Hi Debbie, Ideally each webpage would rank for 1-2 keyword targets. So if your homepage and sub page is ranking for the same term it could mean that the on-page optimization is geared towards the same terms (there is also the chance that Google will see both pages as similar and choose to rank only one - however from your description I don't think that's happening at the moment, so more of an fyi for now). If you want to widen your reach in SERP's I'd first recommend targeting 1-2 specific keywords per page (so title tags, <h>headers, body copy, alt tags etc). Once you achieve rankings for these terms to further widen your reach, and without diluting the ranking you have gained I'd recommend adding more content rich pages to your website that target additional keywords.</h> I'm unsure where or how your anchor text links sit and how they have been contributing to your rankings but if your homepage has dropped to number 22 wouldn't you want to try improve that ranking over the sub page? Also, have you thought about doing link building (from external sites linking back to you)? It can help build your rank for target keywords. Good luck, Davinia

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

Sure - $600/year is tough but are you are a real business then sure go for it. But if it's just for the link then maybe spend the money elseware.