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As recent Penguin update makes quick move with backlinks with immediate impact; does Disavow tool also results the changes in few days rather than weeks like earlier? How long does it take now to see the impact of disavow? And I think still we must Disavow some links even Google claim that it'll take care of bad backlinks without passing value from them?

Actual scenario here is, we been looking the same statistics for almost an year. As I shown in above screenshot, only one link been listing when we click on the domain but number of "Total links" are in thousands. We have many domains link this. What we do to get updated with accurate linking ?

Hi,

I can see in my search console that a website giving thousands of links to my site where hardly only one back-link from one of their page to our page. Why this is happening?

Here is screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/VleUf

These posts are neither in main menu or footer menu. We show recently added posts beneath the most recent blog-post. Not related, but they will go in different categories like marketing, sales, all, etc.

Hi,

One of our blog-post has been interlinked with thousands of internal links as per search console; but lists only 2 links it got connected from. How come so many links it got connected internally? I don't see any.

Thanks,

Satish

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the reply and helping hand.

1. We are "crm" industry players.

2. We are globally relevant. Product used globally and website has global visitors across different countries.

3. We don't have any dedicated pages to any country. English language website.

4. There are many internal redirects. And some sub-domains redirected as sub-folders.

5. Reclaimed links sources are not from India/US. Mostly from Europe.

6. Our domain is based in Germany.

If you are Okay with private messages, I can send you more details. Please let me know what you need to know more.

Thanks,

Satish

Thanks for the response.

Users are not actually spamming but using our pages as their platform. But the keywords are spammy keywords in internet world. Those pages are ranking good for certain keywords. So, I am confused whether to delete the spammy content pages or let it them being well-ranked pages.

Hi,

Our ranking between India and USA is varying inversely like....when we improve in India...drops in USA and vice-versa.

And the possible correlation I have from my end is: We have reclaimed some links and removed same. It happens at both redirects and removal of those redirects. When we reclaimed some links, we improved in India and dropped in US. And when we removed these redirects, vice-versa.

Any idea on this? Please share.

Thanks,

Satish

Hi,

We have cigarettes and viagra as keywords in our sub-domain where our clients can post their business content. We have decent number of impressions and clicks for these related keywords. I have seen that these two words, especially "viagra" is most spammed. So are these hurting us? We dropped post Penguin update. Any correlation? Do you think that these keywords penalise us? We don't have messages or suggestion from Google

Thanks,

Satish

Hi Sean,

My doubt is: If we redirect all incoming links to one page; do Google penalise? What's the best way to reclaim the incoming links pointing to non-existing pages? We have redirected some links and dropped in rankings?

Thanks for the response.

We have 6 sub-domains like blog, etc. Our blog is a sub-domain but configured as example.com/blog (wordpress). Others are left as same. sub-domain.com, etc. We have thousands of visits on these sub-domains with hundreds and thousands of pages. So, we are not sure whether these will be treated as individual websites by Google or all together as same website. If they treat as individual website, will there be any link juice passing from and to domain and sub-domains? And my doubt is, what's the best way to link these sub-domains from our domain. I have gone through some posts saying too many links from sub-domain to domain may turn as spam for Google.

Thanks for the reply.

We been doing good till this drop and suddenly dropped for mobile category. The related changes we made in correlation to this drop are only few redirects and removing footer links. Btw, we are ranking good in mobile speed tests and mobile-friendly as per Google tools.

Hi,

Our rank dropped and we noticed it's a major drop in "Mobile" devices category, which is contributing to the overall drop. What exactly drops mobile rankings? We do not have any messages in search console. We have made few redirects and removed footer links. How these affect?

Thanks,
Satish

Hi,

I would like to know the best anchor text practices. I think it's same for On-page and Off-page. As per the internet seo buzz, people suggests differently as below. Which actually work out?

1. Exact match with target page title or partial match

2. Will "Read more" and "learn more" are Okay?

3. How much it must be relevant with URL?

Thanks,

Satish

What's the best optimised linking between sub-domains and domains? And every time we'll give website link at top with logo...do we need to link sub-domain also with all it's pages?

If example.com is domain and example.com/blog is sub-domain or sub-folder...

1. Do we need to link to example.com from /blog?

2. Do we need to give /blog link in all pages of /blog?

3. Is there any difference in connecting domains with sub-domains and sub-folders?

Hi Coleman,

My question is not exactly the same but you have given right answer in different prospective. As you said we have many external links pointing to our non-existing pages of our website. So we been planning to redirect those to right pages rather than creating pager for such incoming links. Will this helps? We cannot create pages as we already replaced with new pages.

My actual question is: We had referred to many external websites from our website or blog pages which are not actually direct links but redirecting and landing. Do we need to replace such links with actual landing pages? Will this helps us anyhow in SEO or completely negligible?

For example: If we have mentioned example.com/seo and it's redirecting to example.com/sem. Do we need to replace /seo with /sem here?

Thank,

Satish

Previously I have asked about the replacing of internal redirects with actual live pages. The answer is, yes it'll work but may not be huge impact.

Now I am concerned with external redirects. We have enough number of external redirecting links. I am thinking to replace them with actual landing pages. Will this improve SEO?

Thanks,

Satish

Hi Furtak,

I will send you in PM.

Thanks,

Satish

Hi Furtak,

Thanks for the response. Here I have uploaded our ranking screenshot. Please have a look and let us know your valuable understandings. Based on that, we conclude something to work on like link audit if we are certain of it.

http://imgur.com/a/J7Cdz

We have improved ranking when we fixed certain broken links, but dropped on Sep 17th, which is too early to blame on Penguin (my guess). One thing to notice here is that we had reclaimed some links (around 10) on 15th and we dropped on 17th. We reclaimed more than 50 links for last one month. Do these redirects pushed us down?

We dropped more on USA.

Thanks,

Satish

Hi Furtak,

Thanks for the response. Keyword you mentioned must be in anchor text or URL? We have keyword in URL but not anchor text.

And...how about linking this 2nd tier page internally from many number of possible links; so that it'll show-up in Google naturally? One of our most internally linked page is showing up in Google which we wanna replace with this new page

Thanks,

Satish