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that is directly from webmaster TOTAL links. When using OSE the total links are much lower.

I actually did notice a drop in links, I lost around 100 today, is it possible that was the issue? How would you analyze this to get back were you were? I am in a VERY competitive market, huge companies with huge budgets rank on page 1 for a high % of keywords. I was happy with my lower traffic keywords. Very concerning to lose traffic like this.

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I have no warnings at all from Google, traffic is down for some reason for me today, Ive never really ranked great for exact keywords Im targeting, but broad long tail was great! Its seems to all really slowed down today? I keep Mozcast up all the time and it doesnt look like there were major changes today from google. What could explain the traffic drop on my long tail broad?

Any help greatly appreciated!

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Seems to be down around 30% today , It is an E-Commerce, large site.  If there was a problem with Dup content would they notify me also?

Thanks so MUCH!

Is it normal for traffic to fluctuate like this? Is it possible I was hit with a penalty? Or is this normal for a newer website? 1.5yrs old?

Typically how do you setup it up? I usually check webmaster daily, I was just a little concerned as I saw a slight drop in traffic today.

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If I have ANY issues at all with my site will Google send me any type of warning? Or will I just begin to lose position? I seem to read alot of people hit with the "unnatural link" warning, I was just wondering if there was any other warning they may notify us with if need be.

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I do them often as news in my industry is announced almost daily. I hope that doesnt cause any issues, so far organic traffic has been really good.

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I've added my link to BOTW and Yahoo a few weeks ago, should I continue to add to free directories? If I understand link builiding correctly I have to have a good mix of everything, Currently I do PR's weekly with broad/phrase anchor text also.  If I start submitting my site to directories, would that hurt anything? If google starts to see ALL directory links, should I spread everything evenly?

Thanks so much!!

When you are building your links, what and how to you look for them, just using OSE? & try to balance them all?

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A direct competitor of my has a ton of backlinks exact anchor text on their inner pages coming from blogger blogs. How can they get away with this? Are they using different C blocks? Or are they paying for these links? The anchor text is Not anywhere in any of the blogs but it the side/bar colomn which follow through the entire site,  so when I analyze the link anchor text OSE show ups several different pages from the same blog.

Any help would be Greatly Appreciated!!!!!

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I just want to make sure that I have a good start, and do things right, also make sure my link types are correct ratio.

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Do you have a template that you wouldn't mind sharing? Just so I have a base to work off of?

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acutally what I was using is the SEO moz plug in to show a non pers. search.  Although I am not #1 I found it odd that I was ranking above a HUGE website.

Thanks for all the help!!

Thanks, Only reason I ask is for ex. commenting on a blog, sometimes they throw them into moderation queue, so i was thinking to go back and see if it was approved, or just so I can see where my links are active.

Gernerally speaking, If you were building an inner page how would you approach it?

Blogs, Bookmarks,? I want to keep my ratio in check and make sure that I dont have too many of one link and not enough of another, to keep it as natural as possible/.

Thanks very much!!

It is actually good content, Im not sure if they own the blog or not? There links are in the side bar, so its carried through the entire blog, could they me paid?  Will owners of a successful blog put a link on their blog in exchange for money?

My Competitor has a ton of different wordpress, blogger blogs. On the side bar they have link leading back to their site, how can they do this without any issues from google? Are they hiding their Ip's?

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When you build links do you keep track of every single link that you put out there? Or do you start and what to see what shows up in OSE? Some of these links take time so you would have to go back and check to see if it stuck.  Im just trying to put together a procedure to follow. Also spread they out correctly, org, .net ,. com blogs, blog posts. etc

Just curious how everyone else does it, so its easier to manage & track.

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Is this  a common practice?  Using the  Open Site Explorer I can see all of my sites strongest pages.  Would  it be ok for me to build other pages but putting links on these stong pages?

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