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Are the videos self hosted?  Hosted elsewhere?  Is there anything else on those pages besides the videos?

According to this article it should help: http://www.seroundtable.com/404-links-google-15427.html

You would be better off doing your citation building manually.  That way you can ensure that the address doesn't get pushed out.  The citations that Moz utilizes are the main aggregates.  So, if an address get's put on one it will spread across a good portion of the internet.

Also, by not including a NAP onsite and in citations you will be hindering your sites ability to rank in the local results.  One of the big factors is the consistency of NAP across your website and other domains.  Not having it listed will put a wrench into this.  You have no choice, I totally understand that, but it is something to consider.

It really depends on the extent of the damage whether you need a pro or not.  If it's all self contained, as it sounds like, then it will just take identifying the duplicates, and fixing the linking problems.

To find duplicate articles just copy a part of the content and Google it with quotes around it.  This will search for that exact text, and allow you to find the instances that it shows up on your websites.  Fix accordingly.

As for the links, it's pretty much just a matter of using some link searching tools, Open Site Explorer and Majestic SEO, and finding all the instances where you have outbound links from one site to another.  For the time being I would just separate them completely.  After they recover you can go back to connecting them.

I just did this for a company out of Florida.  They created their own link network, and it ended up penalizing them.  They recovered in 3 weeks.  They had a penalty, lower case and less destructive, and not a Penguin or Panda.

Seconded.  The code is on the page, so page title.

You need to diversify your anchor text.  Only 10-20% of your links should have exact match anchor text in them, and of your 180 domains you have 50 with "unlocked cell phones."  Plus, you have almost no benign links such as "click here" or "website."  If you want to get rid of the penalty you need to either start building links, or start changing the anchor text on the ones you have.

First off, entrance path has no impact on your reviews.  The only thing to watch out for his utilizing the same IP for multiple reviews, such as a kiosk in your store.  So, sending them the direct link would be the ideal route to take.

Secondly, what's your goal for the reviews?  Is it to have more reviews?  Then it doesn't matter about the engagement.  If you are trying to build up a brand presence, then you would be better off generating good content (How To's, Top 10 Lists, Little Known Facts, Etc.), and sharing that on your social networks.  From there you could try coax some people into sharing it for you.

I hope that helps.

Hi Marie!  I loved your recent post about the difference between Panda, Penguin and Unnatural Link Penalties recently.

First off, I'd like to say that I'm still getting awesome results with my SEO.  I work on around 100 websites, and both my on-site and off-site techniques are improving the results.

That being said, I can see that the site level metrics are having a larger influence.  I work in a niche that has lots of different providers for websites, and most of them create tons of duplicate content.  The sites that are creating 1000's of pages of duplicate content have been hit hard in the past 6+ months, and it's getting harder to keep them ranking well, but the one's with great architecture are actually getting easier.

For a great example of a company taking the initiative on this I'd look at Autotrader.  They recently, within the last year I believe, decided to no-index all of their inventory.  They did this because all of it was the exact duplicate of what the dealers had posted in dozens of other places online.  Right after they made that change I saw a dramatic improvement in rankings across the board.

A) Is it Women's Widgets used naturally in the posts?  If you are going to use the phrase you might as well link with it.  While you don't want every link on the site to have the same exact anchor text, the threshold for onsite is very, very high.  It's when you get to offsite links where things get messy quickly.

B) I would not link with the long tail.  This would be like claiming that you are the best golfer in the room, but then telling everyone that this other person is the best golfer in the roof.  Doing it once probably wouldn't be a big deal, but I always aim to keep on the safe side of things.

C) I wouldn't use your company name as the link, but you could use words in close proximity.  This could help keep things well rounded.

Another thing to consider is the overall frequency.  If you have 5 pages using the exact match link, assuming it can be used naturally, then it isn't a big deal.  If you have 20+, then I would definitely consider keeping things well rounded with proximity links.

Mozrank does take into consideration both internal and external links.  Perhaps he has a better structured site that utilizes internal links in a better way?

The recovery days after you complaining is probably a coincidence.  They would have to get really lucky that your site just happened to get indexed right after they fixed something.

What dates did you see your traffic decrease?  From when to when?  That's the best way to figure out what kind of penalty you may have received.  If it doesn't match up on dates, then we can help you diagnose what happened from the work logs that the SEO might provide.

Cody

The strength of the link does depend on the page that it is on.  So, if the home page did have more authority, then it would have a larger impact.

Those are good ways to add variant keyword links to those pages.

Have you looked into the Link Detox tool?  It supposedly helps you find the bad links that no one else monitors.

Internet Marketing Ninjas have bought a few forums in the past years, and kept them going. Webmasterworld.com is the most prevalent of these.  That was the forum that lead to the creation of Pubcon.

I'm a little confused.  Are you guest blogging or leaving comments on a blog?

Kevin is completely correct, but I wanted to expand.  The grading on SEOMoz is a measurement of how well you are following on page SEO best practices.  It takes a look at things like Keywords in Title, H1, etc.  Having a poor grade on SEOMoz doesn't mean that you aren't capable of ranking well for the term, it just means that you haven't taken advantage of known ranking factors.

What that tells me is that you may be in 1st right now, but it wouldn't be hard to pass you up.  If you do improve your on-page SEO, though, you will make it harder for people to pass you.

Well, the first thing to consider is the keyword cannibalization: http://moz.com/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization

Optimizing several pages for the same exact keywords can lead to lower rankings across the board.  I just tested this with my own site a couple weeks ago, and it produced the same results as before.  So, trying to rank your home page and internal pages can cause a problem.  This isn't an exact thing, but it is possible.

One thing I did notice about your website is that you are using an IIS based server, which is case sensitive.  That means that the server considers a /Health/ page to be separate to a /health/ page.  Your website utilizes uppercase URLs in the menu, but still displays the lower case if types in.  Are your external links going to the correct style URL?  If not, I would suggest fixing this problem.  You could be leaking authority.

You also have a tremendous amount of links on every single page.  That means that the authority that you pass internally between pages is miniscule, and doesn't provide much value.  Checking one of your pages I found over 400.  400 isn't a big deal with a super authoritative website, but with a DA of 27 you will struggle to get internal pages to rank.

Other things to consider on those pages is the page speed and server requests.

Facebook ads could be a good place to start.  You can target people that have an interest in different languages.  Drive traffic to the Mandarin site by targeting people who have expressed an interest in Chinese Language.  Continue with the rest of them.  You will want to experiment with different landing page and advertisement combos.  Find out what level of competency those ads are delivering, and create a message that meets that skill level.  Maybe something like "I used this one trick to learn Mandarin in X amount of time."  Create a video explaining how it works, and why it will help them.Expert = Refresher

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As for SEO, which also has great potential, you have some problems to tackle first.

1. All of your sites are use the same template, are hosted on the same account and show registrant.  This makes it obvious that you are creating your own link network, which is sketchy regardless of hiding this or not.  You then link to your other pages with keyword rich text.  These are two big signs of link manipulation, so you will probably get held back.

I would suggest moving everything to one site, 301 redirecting all the other websites to their new pages on the single domain, and building content out on that one domain.  Just 1-4 blog posts a week, nothing extreme.

2. Single page sites have been able to hide from penalties in the past because there isn't enough there to tell if you are spamming.  Well, things are changing, and Google is getting better at finding this.  Bigger sites with substantial content typically perform better.  Great content can help you beat out a decent amount of links.  One of my leads sites has 5 blog comments for links, but beats out sites with 100 linking domains just because I wrote better content than my competitors.

If your website is still hindered after this you will want to use a program to find your toxic links, and disavow them.

I would link "our agent" for "X Region."  We don't have exact values on how Google treats multiple links from one page to a single domain, but they have repeatedly said that there is a diminishing return.  So, limiting it to just two links will give you the majority of the value you would get anyways, and doesn't appear too spammy.