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Ryan

We are going to change all the directory links to the url names..

Thank you for your SEO improvement suggestions...

1.footer links = remove

2. cannibalizing your keyword

3. images from a secure server (i will look into this)?

4. verified by visa" and "godaddy secured i will add link to godaddy SSL certificate..

I will make these changes and holpfully see if this improves things..

Do you think it could be something to do with the panda update?

If you think of any thing else that could be knocking us down please let me know...

Thanks Again

Dean

Jacob

Thanks for repsonding

This happened at the begging of August 5th to 10th.. I have experienced this "Google dance" before but only dropping for a couple of days to a week at most and then an increased in ranking, but iv not experienced this for over a month?

I don't think this is the case... ?

Dean

Ryan

Thank you for responding..

We are running 4 Sites and 3 have had the same issue apart from one, it seems that only the home pages have been hit on all 3 sites.. internal pages are fine, This happened at the begging of August and the keywords was varied between 3-4 keywords..

We have done nothing different apart from accruing these directories, I have read in previous questions they had penalties for buying these directory links?

At first i though it maybe a panda update? Then i read about penelties for paid directories?

Any advice would be highly apprenticed, as i have come to a standing block?

We have made a big mistake.... So what can we do to fix this?

A trainee member of staff has used the seomoz 100 top directories and added to sites from PR10 to PR6 approx about 25 sites, using keywords were possible instead of using the website URL "which i now was stupid!.

Our website ranking have been lowered big time for all keywords used!, eg from 1st to 10th and even disappeared from the top 100

We are contacting all directories asking for the Title link to be changed to the URL instead of a keyword.. Will this help?

I understand that Google give sites a penalty for this!!, but what can i do to put this right and how long would this penalty last for?

Any advice would be highly appreciated...

Thanks

Dean