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Paul,

I like that thought, very creative. I'm going to give that a try.

Thanks

-Brandon

Awhile back I listed our website here: http://directory.r-tt.com/

I spotted one of our competitors there and I went ahead and listed our site. Now it seems that we are listed on 37 pages on the site. The titles that you can use for links to your site are very SEO friendly.

Should I remove my site from this directory? We've experienced a recent drop in traffic from Google and I'm trying to pin point the source.

Thanks for the response, It scared me when I first saw it but didn't really rush to do anything about but I will now.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the response Karl,

I usually tread causally when putting together a link request email and don't try to push for anything that I know I probably wont get. The page that I came across that made me think about this is a nice list of companies in our industry but not a single listing links out.

So we are in the middle of a hiring blitz looking for sales agents in different areas of the country. One of our internal sales agents used a program called Job-a-matic which appears to be a product developed or sponsored by SimplyHired. This software seems to have put our job posting on a lot strange sites really unrelated to our industry and they job description such as:

• truck driver jobs
• teen jobs
• white collar jobs
• jobs a go-go
• database admin jobs
• medical coding

and many many more

When I Google our company name I see all of these listing on pages 3, 4, 5 etc . Is it possible that Google may see these listings as spammy or paid links? It appears as if these listing were just automatically generated and not really controlled in anyway. I'm worried that they could have generated a penalty as we did experience a significant drop in traffic.

Thanks

-Brandon

I've come across a few curated lists on different websites that are related to my site. Some of them are just lists without links. Should I reach out and request a listing? I figure why not, It's not a link but is still a mention.

Do mentions hold any value with search engines?

Thanks

-Brandon

Looks like this topic has been discussed before. I may just remove the tags from my posts and just use categories. Since I don't have much content and have used similar tags for the posts it may be causing an issue.

I'm receiving 4 duplicate content warnings from Roger.They are all "www.mysite/tag/tag-name". I'm using WordPress and have Yoast WordPress SEO installed. Should I set the tags  to "noindex" in the plugin settings?

Thanks Robert,

I''m actually trying to remedy the situation right now. I've asked the webmaster to please remove our link and I've also adjust the blog post that I wrote and removed the link to their site.

I am pushing the organization that I currently work for to go in the direction of content creation and content marketing. It's just hard to convince the sales dept not to blatantly sell in their posts. It's also hard to convince management to have patience.

Do you have an financial sites in your network that would be interested in an article about merchant fees? I'm writing that right now.

-Brandon

Hi all, I've been having some trouble with Google lately.

Awhile back I came across a quality site that had a "Useful Links" directory. I searched the site and finally found an email.  I emailed the webmaster and requested a link. They obliged but wanted a link back, so I wrote a nice blog post that included a link to their site.

This brings me to question number one:

1. Would Google see this as a link exchange?

Problem number two with the link from this site. My site is fairly new with not much of a link profile. What I discovered was that they displayed random links from the "Useful Links" directory in the sidebar and in the footer. So all of a sudden we have a ton of links from one website. This site has hundreds maybe even thousands of pages.

2. Would Google see all of these links and think that they were paid or spam?

We've had a nice steady increase in traffic from Google then all of a sudden it dropped to nothing for two days and has come back a little.

Here is my data from open site explorer:

1/15/2013 PA=27/100 DA=14/100 LRD=5 Total Links=42

2/12/2013 PA=31/100 DA=19/100 LRD=9 Total Links=137

3/19/2013 PA=28/100 DA=18/100 LRD=5 Total Links=212

We experienced the drop in Google traffic on 2/4/2013. So according to open site explorer everything is ok. But is this big jump in links a problem?

Thanks to anybody that reads this long post.