SEO LINKS
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New to S.E.O. so excuse my naivety. I have made lots of new links some of them paid for e.g.
Best of the Web but I don’t see any change in the latest competitive link analysis. Some of the links we have been accepted for
just do not show. Also the keywords we are trying to promote the most have disappeared off the radar for over 2 weeks now. I think we have
followed the optimization suggestions correctly. Please could you enlighten me.
Regards
Paul
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Okay, no worries
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Hi Steve
I will have to digest what you have said.Hope to be back later.
With Thanks
Paul
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And is it the homepage you're going for with those keywords then? It seems to be a bit mixed up as to whether you're targeting everything at the homepage or other relevant pages.
You've got keyworded anchor text going to the pages from the homepage, but then you seem to be targeting those same keywords with the homepage itself at the same time.
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We have changed some meta descriptions and body text and optimized as suggested in the Seo Moz On page Optimization section.
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You've also got a lot of code in your site, before and mixed in with the content... you'd do well to externalize as much of it as possible.
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Have there been no other changes at all except for the link building?
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Hi Steve
We were listed in the top 50 Google results for 3 keyword phrases:- curtain poles, wooden curtain poles, and metal curtain poles.Since starting on additional link building and site optimization we have disappeared completely from the top 500 listings and I can't understand this We still appear top 50 with some other keywords phrases so I don't think we have been removed by Google.
Regards
Paul
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Ah, I see...
Okay:
- Other than jumptags it looks like all of your incoming links are from directories only
- 97% (ish) of your incoming links go to your homepage only and no other pages (even the pages you're using the keywords for point only to your homepage instead of the most relevant pages for those keywords)
- Much of your anchor text is very similar, and much is the same... you can see easily what keywords you're targeting as there's no a lot of anchor text with anything other than those keywords.
Go into Open Site Explorer and check linking root domains and anchor text distribution.
Try to diversify your links a little and that should help
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Sorry you've lost me there... what actually happened?
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Thank you Steve,
I can understand the patience and the collaboration but not dropping out of the top 50 and not returning for the 3 major keywords we have been working at.
Regards
Paul
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Hi Paul,
It can take quite a while longer than that to see anything really... SEO is a game that requires more patience than watching a race between slugs being held back.
Also, it tends to be a collaboration of stuff (especially links). Getting some links doesn't necessarily mean anything will change, the trick is to keep doing it, until it does
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