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I’m worried because I don’t want to lose my rankings due to an external factor (aka competitor) Most of the competition I had were doing black hat stuff and they are all gone. However they were doing black hat stuff. It’s only a matter of time before they realize what they are now capable of.

After seeing todays WBF I am going to start loosing hair.

Is it better to go back and try to fix everything? this way it does not look like an attempt to manipulate the search engine? However, by doing this I am still going to lose my rankings because of all my good links are gone. These links are placed in relevant forums and they are helping people learn more about their search.

I feel like Google is being a hypocrite here, when SOPA wanted to control the internet (and Google) they flipped out and got all nervous people will lose jobs. They argued with our government that many people will lose jobs if they regulate the internet. Well is google not doing the same thing? they are being extremely strict and punishing sites that are over optimized. Especially since a large amounts of companies pay an SEO company to do their work. For every site that loses rankings someone or some people are losing jobs. Thanks Google you "really" complained to SOPA for the people.

This really sucks because Matt Cutts himself said that external linking factors will not matter.

If I lose my rankings because Matt Cutts lied, I will be pissed. Many other will be pissed as well. This is when Negative SEO companies will open.

Instead of hurting bad SEO tactics they are helping them. Now black hat companies can offer negative SEO, thanks Google!

This is your greatest update yet!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/nonintuitive-search-queries-resources-for-link-building

Read #4 it will help you find blogs and forums in your area.. I also use omgili.com to find blogs and forums.

I would also recommend guest blogging. Check out myblogguest.com make sure you read the guidelines before making friends to exchange link building strategies with.

BTW IMO no follow links can be just as good. It shows the engine that people are naturally linking to you. In your quest to build links I would highly suggest using different variations of your keywords. This will help mask your site from appearing optimized to the search engines.

Maybe the .pdf was always there just unnoticed?

Perhaps its something you changes on the page: Did you run an SEOmoz onsite optimization test?

What did you change on the page? Also, did you change any internal links pointing at that page? if its none of these factors, it can also be an external linking factor.

Nice pic I hoe they approve it lol

I would recommend finding home improvement forums and making connections there. I have a good amount of success on a construction site from doing this.

People on forums are discussing everything you just have to look for them and engage them in a way that they cant turn down. My approach is usually humor.

you can introduce yourself like this: You guys want to know what the owner of the best pvc windows company eats for Breakfast...  pause .... well today for breakfast I had some fruit and granola. Giving value + helping others = relationships

Relationships + Link Building = SEO results

First you make friends on forums/blogs/google+/facebook/linkedin then you can guest blog or ask them to mention some of your articles.

Since you are based in the UK I would suggest looking for sites there... Here is a great post Rand Fishkin released not too long ago, it should help you find good sites. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/nonintuitive-search-queries-resources-for-link-building

http://www.seomoz.org/q/avoiding-duplicate-page-title-and-duplicate-page-content-best-practices this should help.

Did you hit "choose file" and then "upload"? lol

Have you tried to use a cononical tag?

I am a little confused, what made you lose your spot 5 ranking? Did you move your page to a .pdf? how is the .pdf relevant to your keyword? Or was one page ranking in 5 and now its gone. However, you found your .pdf in spot 68 for that phrase?

Did you change anything on that page that was ranking or on your site? Usually something causes a loss in rankings. Esp. when you go from spot 5 to nowhere to be found. Have you checked your Google webmaster tool there may be a message there.

Oh this is why I was under the impression that every page is ranked individually. http://www.seomoz.org/q/pr-of-homepage-when-other-pages-have-more-lniks

You can do a rel=author from the affiliate site to the original content. This recent post has some information that can help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building

Yeah this is my argument. We have an SEO quote page and I allready made this clear on the page: http://www.boastingbiz.com/seoquote.html I think having this page and a pricing page is kinda over kill. I guess the real question here is, is it good to have a page for pricing regardless of the content on there? is it something a user looks for like a home page button?

There are many SEO sites out there that have an SEO Pricing page, IMO this is BS.

A SEO company cannot give every person the same quote for diffirent keywords. However, this is something we are currently debating.

I don't want a pricing page, because it's a page full of lies.

My coworker thinks it is a good idea, and that users look for a pricing page.

Suggestions?

If I had to build one (which I am debating against) is it better to just explain why pricing can be tricky? or to BS them like most sites do?

How about using the same strategy you will need to build links. What? whats that? Oh right! give value : )

What is subdomian extension? I cant find it in Wiki or Google. When would one use it?

I have read many posts on this. However, the one thing I find challenging is getting an expert to give me a social mention. In many cases they have shared something similar in the past, and in many cases they are too busy. IMO building relationships via forums is the easiest way to find experts who will mention my site. I can engage them in a thread, and eventually take it to a Personal Messages. After building a relationship I can ask for a link or a social mention or to guest post or something.

I have attempted contacting many experts via Blogs, E-mail, Facebook, Google + etc. for many different sites, IMExperince most “Experts” (people with large followings) will not give a noob (new site w/no rankings or new user w/no following) the time of day, nor a social mention. I have read many posts on engaging experts: tag them; send them flowers; like every post; make great comments. My result… bruised lips (from kissing behinds).

I work with an SEO company, and every new site we work on seems to require a unique strategy for ranking. When we work on building relationships in fields we know nothing about, the outcome is weak. Unless we use forums.

What are some strategies that work for you? what approach do you take when you have to build a relationship with someone you cant give value to?

Yes I have read this thank you we just did both 301 and canonical. Do you think this is fine? using both? or can it hurt our current SERP results?

Sorry. I was not referring to .com... My mistake..

This is the current url http://www.domain.com/something**.html** would taking out the .html hurt our current rankings. For this type of change would it be best to do 301 a canonical or just leave it?

Hello,

I have a client that has a site with a .html plugin and I have read that its best to not have this. We currently have pages ranking with this .html plug in. However If we take the plug in out will we lose rankings? would we need a 301 or something?