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The "good" links we disavowed earlier are ranking well on Google. Most are from high quality sites related to the same niche.

The issue was, the reconsideration request got rejected the twice. The example links mentioned in the response were all created by our site visitors. We were in now way responsible for the links placed on those pages. The pages were from BlogSpot, Wordpress and some really popular forums with content created by the users.

But we had to disavow those as well and similar pages to get the penalty revoked. We never checked the page quality and authority that time. We checked later when the traffic dropped and found a lot of pages to be good.

Yes, we are working on pages with low average time and improving the content. But the pages removed from top 10 have always been performing well and still are with direct or brand keyword visits.

Recently, a lot of pages from our website have moved from page one or ranking number one, to page ten or something.

We got a manual penalty message from Google Team, we removed a lot of unnatural links pointing to our pages and disavowed the rest. This got the penalty removed and we got a message from Google confirming the same. Before the manual penalty we were getting about 140,000 visits per day, after the penalty about 80,000.

However, after Hummingbird or Penguin 2.1 all our ranks have vanished. We are nowhere in Google for our primary keywords and we getting like 40,000 visits per day. Most are direct or from sources other than Google.

We had another look at the links we disavowed, a list of about 11000 domains, we found about 3000 domains to be good. We fixed the disavow file about one week back, but no changes in traffic since. We checking the domains again to see if we have missed more good domains in there; yes, we have. There are still a very few good domains in there. But we are not touching the disavow list; waiting to see the change for the last submitted.

We have a dedicated user base, good liking on Facebook, all the stats in Analytics speak good, about 40% repeat visits about 30% direct. About 3000 people search for the site using our brand name as reported in Analytics.

I doubt the on-page optimization, the pages could be over-optimized. But the on-page factors for other pages ranking for the keywords are similar. The keyword density is similar, so are the usage of headings and stuff. We have not made any recent changes to these on-page patterns.

Our team is not able to figure out what could have gone wrong.

Same here, I won't recommend using one's own blogs for backlinks. I was part of a team which used the service and likes to host over 400 blogs in an attempt to manipulate their ranks. This worked with great success until recently. The team has experienced a big drop in rankings after a full year of success. The value of the links has vanished. This I believe might also be a part of the recent Panda update. A lot of people in SEO industry believe the Panda update is not only about penalizing copied content, but about removing content which has little value.

A blog with a link in every post, pointing to another website, on a relevant keyword, is a clear indication that it has been made with an intention to manipulate the SERP ranks. This is categorized by a crawler as nothing more than a link directory. Links from domains with high traffic and original content have proved to be a good value, no matter what the anchor text is.

The blogs and target website have a big chance of getting removed from top 100 SERP results. We have seen this happening to a lot of websites recently.

I believe you do not need to host the blogs with different companies to have them on different C Class IPs. Please visit http://www.seowebhosting.net/ to read about the service and likes.

There are 100s of hosting services out there providing SEO hosting and easy ways to manage all the blogs/sites in a single WHM and cPanel interface.

A lot of people have shared concerns over Google checking the ownership information. Actually, the SERP quality team in Google is considered one of smartest people in Google itself. They work hard to keep people from trying to manipulate the rankings any way possible. The algorithms check every aspect possible. associated with the site to see if people are trying to create links to their own sites. The practice is actually considered similar to buying links on other blogs.

Google has never, and will not officially share the factors they use to check link quality. This is necessary to keep people to misusing the information; people will start playing better once the rules are written loud and clear. All the information out there is based on experience.

One example is, a recent change in Google Webmaster Tools interface. A lot of people started getting suggestions from Google to add sites to their Webmasters account. Google started suggesting that it feels you are the owner of the sites on the basis of ownership information and other common factors within the sites. Was a surprise for people who were trying to hide.

I don't think Google has access to private registrations as this would clearly violate the TOS for the hosting service provider. Private registrations are there for a reason. But a domain/website not revealing ownership information loose a little in domain authority.

Can you please elaborate the context you are asking question for.

The ranking would depend on the overall content quality of the page. The text that is selected to be added on the page, describing the video should be original and relevant to the context you wish to optimize the page for.

I believe adding the video on YouTube or saving it on the website won't make any difference. We have a website as a collection of YouTube videos ranking on top spot for a significant number of keywords we are working on. Yes, having the word video in the URL and title can help as a plus in ranking factors.

If you wish to give SEO Hosting a try, I would recommend to choose http://www.seowebhosting.net/

Most websites use Wordpress blogs with SEO hosting, with XML RPC enabled. Will help you make the posts easily using a single software/service.

If you are asking about hosting blogs on different C-Class IPs to help promote the main website; there are a lot of other complications involved. This method works to some extent, right now, but the domains should not be linked to each other; no common factors should appear. Like, domains must not be registered in the same name, the themes should be different, no common header, footer, widgets, no common ad-code etc.

Also, applications like Autoblog are of no use. All websites hosted on the IPs must have original content, and a good amount of backlinks to get the pages with backlinks indexed in the search engine. Also, the blogs shouldn't link back to a common set of websites. No use having 100s of pages on a single blog/site, every page linking back to your website; clearly shows you own the blog.

I am not sure if this answers your question. Just something I thought you are asking about.

click to read full transcript, using CSS or JS would be better. So the content is shown once the user clicks the link.

Looks like Google is picking the keyword meta tag as the anchor text and description tag for the detail. Though it might be picking the most relevant keyword, on the basis of page content, from the list instead of the first one everytime.

Just something I found checking the pages above. The anchor texts are strangely the very first in the list of keywords.

Make sure you redirect the existing pages to new URLs using 301 permanent redirects. This would help retain the value of page to some extent and the existing visitors as well. Defining everything in a .htaccess file would be the best option, and can also use a code in a PHP file to further manipulate the redirects.

The second option would  work best. The contents of the H1 and other heading tags, matter a lot when optimizing a page for specific keywords. The tag should not contain images and should appear before anything else on the page.