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Hey Reymond,

Thank for the reply.

From my experience on penguin, concerning EMDs, I agree with you on the devaluation of certain links which used to give me the #1 in US, but what about the #1 in Canada?

Tricky situation!

Hi Stefan,

Before penguin the EMD was at #1 solid. The other websites that came above after the 24th of April were not even the 1st page of SERP.

That is why I think it is the penguin.

I own an EMD which was hit by google penguin.

I lost my #1 position to Google US SERP and went to #5 for the keyword which applies to the EMD.

What I have tried so far is deleting the exact anchor text links from the footers of my c-block sites.

That did not seem to help because i did not gain any position from that change.

I also altered my meta title, description and keywords because they were spamming a bit. Things did not improved.

My  Links w/ Exact Anchor Text is at 5%,

Linking Root Domains w/ Exact Anchor Text at 3%

The web pages that are above me are to 0% to both categories because they are not showing up with their main page.

What is going on?

The thing that confuses me the most is that i am also targeting for two other markets, Australia and Canada. In Canada I have maintained my #1 and to Australia I lost my first position falling to #2.

I did not receive any message to my webmaster tools account and never made any black hat link building.

Is the EMD fact the problem, but why not for other markets except US?

Penguin has run to other markets(CA, AU) as well becuase i have seen a drop to other keywords and also to my traffic.

Really what do you think?

Well, you have been very helpful!

Thank you SEO people!

Hello,

On the last crawl of a website of mine, seomoz pointed out about 1500 errors (ouch!) on my site. I have made some corrections and i just want to see if they are at the right way but the next crawl is in a week.

Is there any way so i can force a crawl before the scheduled date?

Thanks!