I think my site is affected by a Google glitch...or something
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Although google told me No manual spam actions found i had not received an unnatural link request notice i figured it would be a good idea to clean these up so i did.
So i have submitted 3 reconsideration requests from google. They all came back with the same response: No manual spam actions found. I really doubt that anyone at google really checked those out.You will notice that i don't even appear on page 1-10 at all...its clearly google filtering the site out from the results(except for my brand terms), but i have no idea what for.What do you guys think it is? If you see anythign let me know so i can have it fixed.This has been going on for 2 months now...my company has been around for a long time...i dont understand why suddenly im not showing up in searches for the keyword si used to rank for...
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Hi Cary,
You must clean up your anchor text, looks like you have tons of links anchoring in as "
| <a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">limo buses san diego"</a> | 176 | ** 320** |
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.aallinlimos.com
A recommended link ratio is 7:3. 7 being Branded 3 being diverse, exact, and long tail.
It would probably be best to contact all these sites and ask them to change the anchor to your brand name. That is if the site is not spaming/overoptimizing and has a clean link profile. Make sure to keep track of your work.
If the above does not help, or you cannot get these anchors/links removed.
After a few weeks (IMO 12 weeks) send Google everything you have done in a reconsideration request.
During this time you can still build good branded links.
Hope this helps.
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