It appears that no matter what I do, my website is not picking up traffic. What can I do?
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I have tried everything, followed everything by the book...yet nothing is happening. I I yet have to try PPC, but I am sure that by now the website is healthy since I have spent from January to the current date fixing every sort of warning and errors. While I have worked on link building strategies(only submitting links to directories for the moment) However the website is dead. What should I do? Is this due to a Google penalty?
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Thanks a lot for the answers guys. By the way, do you know if there is a practical solution to get rid of those back links from robot.txt?
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Kiran,
I suggest you use the disavow tool wisely. Matt Cutts did a video recently on how to use the disavow tool. Here are two videos that will help
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I want you to look at your anchor texts:
<a>http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.translationservices24.com%2F</a>
95% of your anchor text is Translation Services or some various of it. Additionally your site is on link farms and directories. You aren't ranking well because your link profile is as dirty as a Tijuana hooker. Sorry!
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Hi there,
the website is http://www.translationservices24.com. I'm the current online marketing manager, however I suspect that the previous manager used some bad bulky black SEO practice which led to the drop in ranking since no matter what I do the website is just going down. In the last few days we had only an average of 50 visitors per day, and On the 22nd of May, there was a vertical drop of all main keywords, some of them are not even ranking anymore. I have been reading about the latest Google updates, and acted as such, I have deleted bad content, and fix all the warnings and errors but every week there seem to be a new problem and mean while the website is just keeping on going down. Is there a particular reason? Thanks
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