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My last site (10 months old) i paid for links, had outsourced cheap quality back links. Do you think starting over is an option ? A new site (with content and everything from my old site) and doing manual high quality seo myself ? or will Google spam my new one as well ?
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Don't get disheartened. It can take a long time for Google to crawl the URLs your links are on. When you used disavow did you list the domain or each URL, as you are probably best removing the domain so you capture all links.
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Thank You for suggestions. I tried my best to remove all backlinks. I paid some directories to take off all links. bookmarks4you.com had 76 back links pointing to my site (a link per tag creted by my seo "expert") . I paid the directory to remove all links pointing in. I used disavow 2 weeks ago. and Still the same. It's as if though, Google has penalized my homepage for certain keywords.
When I look at my competitors, they've done little to no seo (which is what I must have done) and they're ranking top page. for instance - http://effectivehypnosisnj.com
I'm genuinely feeling frustrated. Do you think starting over is an option ?
Buying a new domain, copying the site into the new domain, and starting fresh is a better option ? or will Google see it as spam again ?
Thank You
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I agree with Michael, it's about identifying the problem and dealing with it.
A valuable tool I use is google's text cache to see what spiders see http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.njhypnotherapy.com/&strip=1
Are spiders seeing your key term? You've got testimonials as images which are great content users will find useful and so will search engines.
Also think about the homepage, what should it really rank for? We tend to think "I need my homepage ranking for core keyphrases" but should it? I believe the homepage should rank for a generic search phrase and appear for brand searches. Other pages on your site should focus on the specific keyterms you want to target. In your case, the homepage should be focused on "hypnotherapy" and pages built for 'hypnosis for anxiety', 'hypnotherapy fear' should rank for them.
I would even do small changes like change the title to read: **Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy in New Jersey, NJ | Imraaz Rally C.ht, NLP **and reword the meta description to bring hypnosis and hypnotherary more in front. Users land on your page searching for hypnosis and hypnotherapy in NJ, your name/brand seals the deal in my opinion. Not the other way round.
Interestingly, I can't see your site appearing as a local search when I searched for hypnotherapy, nj. This would be ideal for you and could drive traffic that is local and relevant.
I can see you are using authorship on your blogs, but your image isn't appearing in search results. Have you set it up correctly? In your Google+ have you linked the site and set yourself as a contributor to the site?
I would also look at things like introduce schema.org to microtag your site for search engines.
Rework the structure and your good content will build external links, you can even go beyond and do things like trustpilot reviews and run some location specific PPC ads that will show up the rating stars from trustpilot
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No, this wouldn't work. I just looked at your backlinks in OSE and there are some really spammy links. You need to do a full backlink analysis and start to get rid of those directory links. Just look at some of the links that surround yours and you'll see why Google does not like these kind of link building techniques anymore.
Concentrate on getting rid of any of these types of links and start to create some engaging content that people will want to read. It takes a lot longer to create but it could be a source of links for many months and will help your website recover. However, it is imperative that you get rid of these links ASAP either by contacting the websites and getting them taken down (ideally) or using the disavow file.
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You cannot do this. If you have a poorly domain or homepage redirecting just injects the problem to the new location. You need to determine the problem links and deal with them by disavowing - http://moz.com/community/q/link-disavow
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