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What SERP phenomenon are you experiencing?

I have several clients who have old addresses scattered around the search engines. Correcting them all individually is extremely time consuming and I'm looking into services like Yext and Localeze, but they tend to be fairly pricey.

Does Localeze actually end up correcting most of the random listings?

Is there any other services I should be aware of?

Thanks!

Tom

This guide might help:

http://www.branded3.com/b3labs/cleaning-your-links-a-step-by-step-guide/

Of course, there is also the Bing Disavow tool, but Google hasn't come out with a similar tool yet.

I have a client who was hit hard. They pretty much disappeared from the search results for all search phrases except for their name. Their on-the-page is a little over optimized, but not so much that I would think it would be completely demolished in the rankings. It almost looks like a Penguin update as I think they've been penalized for some high density anchor text in their back links (34% with the exact phrase they want to rank for) and some comment spam.

Anyone else's thoughts on the matter?

That is an excellent point and I hope it is a Panda update rather than a Penguin. Fixing content on the website will be exponentially easier than trying to track and remove links.

It very much looks like a Penguin penalty, though, and I didn't think Panda acted like this.

Here's an example search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Why+Sell+Your+Car+For+Cash+to+Auto+Buyer%22&rlz=1C1SNNT_enUS360US360&oq=%22Why+Sell+Your+Car+For+Cash+to+Auto+Buyer%22&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

That is the exact phrase on one of the inner pages. It looks like this domain "http://ip-72-167-48-40.ip.secureserver.net/" is now ranking above their actual domain, which you can see if you click the link to see the "entries that they omitted"

I've never seen a domain like that, but I assume it's the result of something GoDaddy is doing on their hosting end.

Anyway, it's very curious. Any other thoughts would be more than welcomed.

I have a client who had some grey hat SEO done in the past. Some of their back links aren't from the best neighborhoods.

Google didn't seem to mind until 9/28, when they literally disappeared for all searches except for their domain name. Google still has their site indexed, but it's just not showing up.

There are no messages in Webmaster Tools.

I know Bing has the tool where you can disavow bad links and ask them to discount them. Google doesn't have such a tool, but what is the strategy when you don't have control over the link sources, such as in blog comments?

Could this update have been a delayed Penguin ranking change from the latest Penguin Update on the 18th?

http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

Maybe a Firefox extension that impersonates a mobile browser by changing the user-agent string?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/phony/

Haven't tried it myself, but if this one doesn't work, there might be another one out there that works.

In creating a regular brochure website such as one for a dentist or doctor, do you see any SEO benefit to having it based in a Wordpress blog?

I do see the SEO benefit of having an actual blog on the site and continually updating that, but simply using the Wordpress platform as a CMS - does that give the site any benefit?

If there is a benefit, is there a way to duplicate that advantage without going through the trouble of creating a Wordpress template for the site?

Maybe just publishing a sitemap.xml, and feed, etc?

Thanks!

Tom

What is the preferred image replacement technique currently for CSS? I have been using the one that someone here at SeoMoz recommended a year or two ago, which was:

Text to be hidden

{

#id {

overflow:hidden;

width:200px; //width of the image

background-image: url(...);

}

#id span {

display:block;

width:1000px;

height:1000px;

}