Google ranking penalty
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Do you think that our websites involvement with LinkMonster.com link building program is the cause of our penalty by google in our ranking ?
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I used Open Site Explorer, which is available under the "Research Tools" section of SEOMoz. (look in the main menu above for "Research Tools" then look on the left of the page for the Open Site Explorer.
Just put your url in there, and it will bring up lots of links. Then just go and visit them to see what they are like. You can also filter for follows vs nofollows, and other attributes, depending on what you are looking for. I just opened up a half dozen or so of them to get a feel for your links, and found what I mentioned above.
There are other tools too, such as Raven Tools, which could also show these to you, but since you are a pro member, you might as well use SEOMoz tools.
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Yes I do have webmaster tools and that is how I found the message from google abourt the problem.
It is mainly the home page and keywords using the "tampa web design" and its variations.
Yes it has been effected in the last month.
thanks for the info
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Can you share with me what tool you are using to find the problem links?
Thanks
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Yes,
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your involvement in Linkmarket and any other link enchanges you are on, I saw some others too.
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the footer links you put on websites you have designed.
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Do you have access to webmaster tools? If so did you receive a notification from Google informing you about unnatural links found pointing into your domain?
Are your ranking penalties site wide or tied to specific keywords and pages where you have focused heavy link building activities?
If you've just recently been hit then I suspect its entirely down to the unnatural link algo that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment. There is an excellent article on it here:
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