Hi Virginia,

Competing with TES & Guardian would be difficult for any site! You should focus on promoting the longer terms like "teaching jobs bracknell", p5 is pretty good for a category style page anyways.

That prospero company are link spamming, 30% anchor distribution for "teaching jobs", grew 1000 links in 10 days!

You guys should set this up btw: http://dense13.com/blog/2008/02/27/redirecting-non-www-to-www-with-htaccess/

My only other useful advice is to change the content of the tags to

**tags at the top of that page & to also investigate whether your site structure is logically built.

For example, if the site structure is

eteach.com/teaching-jobs-london

eteach.com/teaching-jobs-essex

You want it to be something like this instead:

eteach.com/teaching-jobs/london

eteach.com/teaching-jobs/essex

That will help Google work out what's going down.

You'll get to p4 with a bit of targeted link building to that new URL. p1 or p2 is gonna take some money, pimping & blackhat links. Not necessarily in that order.**

My site menu means I have something like 1000 on page links

Theoretically Google will recognise that it's for navigation?

I'm interested in knowing how a big a deal people think this is & what you can actually do about short of having flash menu's.

Essentially there is an old page that has been the target of an old school link building agency. There is a 301 re-direct from the old page to the newer version.

if I drop the 301 re-direct and update our sitemaps. Will those links be removed from our profile?

The old URL passes nothing in actual value & a link building campaign has been running on the new page for over a year.

Those sites are fine, check the quality of the actual content they are sending out. My experience with using cheap foreign labour is very poor. I expect yours is the same sadly!

They've rebranded to Swish Digital now, here is a recent thread discussing a site currently being worked on by them https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/keep-or-fire-the-seo-company-please-help-asap.2654110/