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Hi Marie,

That's a great response and inline with our thinking here. The links are not within our control and we've decided to start a fresh.

The site content ranked really well before Penguin so I am hoping it will recover fast.

Thanks and best regards,

Jason

Hi Alison, thanks for your help with this.

We started contacting webmasters initially however this proved to be a waste of time for the most part as the majority of webmasters didn't respond to requests.

A new site is looking like the way to go, thanks again.

Thanks Deb Dulal Dey, unfortunately there are too many links to make this worth while doing. On the other hand the content on the site is very good though.

Thanks again for your thoughts.

Thanks Baptiste, you've given me a lot to think about there.

Hi there,

I'm looking into an issue with a site that was hit after Penguin was introduced.

The site lost 70% of traffic over night.

The site in question seemed to have a large number of backlinks with over optimized anchor text which seems to most likely be the reason for drop in rankings.

But there is also some links from blog networks here too unfortunately, so my question here really is do Google just devalue these links and discount them from consideration in their ranking algorithm or do the links still count but instead of adding positive affects in SERPs add a negative affect?

My reason for this question is I'm trying to determine whether it's worth saving this website or just starting fresh with a new domain.

That does bring me to another question, if I have to start fresh on a new domain is it a possibility to reuse the content from the old site? (providing I remove the URLs from Google via Webmaster tools).

Any help/advice/answers here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I have access to a masive resource of journals that we have been given the all clear to use the abstract on our site and link back to the journal. These will be really useful links for our visitors.

E.g.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/59210832213382K2

Simply, if we copy the abstract and then link back to the journal source will this be treated as duplicate content and damage the site or is the link to the source enough for search engines to realise that we aren't trying anything untoward.

Would it help if we added an introduction so in effect we are sort of following the curating content model?

We are thinking of linking back internally to a relevant page using a keyword too. Will this approach give any benefit to our site at all or will the content be ignored due to it being duplicate and thus render the internal links useless?

Thanks

Jason

Thanks for looking in to this guys.

I just thout uk.com was another tld - albeit an unpopular one - and I had no idea this sort of sub domain existed.

Wil lthis continue to affect all of the tools in SEOMoz?

www.dalycom.uk.com

Yes Barry I'm sure it's wrong for the reasons you state.

The SEO tool bar is returning what I believe to be an incorrect domain authority of 71 and showing 24,356,141 lins from 153,051 domains.

The OSE is also returning 71 as domain authority.

Anyone know what could be doing this?

Thanks.

Jason