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as a follow, how do I remove the backlinks on my own?  Is there a way to do that, without waiting for someone at the spammy directory site to respond to me?

Thanks a million for the good advice.  I appreciate your time,  any good recommendations for seo professionals would be appreciated.   Also any advice once the content is approved for getting some links other than directories would also be helpful.

just launched a new site edenprairieexperts.com. The site jumped to the first page on yahoo and bing within a couple of days then fell off a cliff and isnt in the top 10 pages. Any reason for this? seems really strange for me. The only think I can think of is I got some really poor quality back links from someone screwing with me. If someone could take a glance at the site or give me some general direction I would appreciate it.

Can you please advise me on services that submit urls for socialbookmarks, directories and various back links.  Such as DripFeedBlasts.com , I seem to be running across quite a few different services that appear to be legitimate but I'm obviously suspicious of anything that seems too easy.

Have you guys hear of dripfeedblasts and do you have any recommendations for this type of tool, or would you suggest staying away from them all together.

I'm a novice and trying to learn time saving strategies to save on hiring additional manpower.

Thanks

thanks for the note,   I was just curious if something in the design/navigation did better with the short sale site,   I agree those terms are much easier to rank for but it just seemed like maybe something was working better on the short sale site to shoot up so quickly when it took me forever on my other site.   would you agree wordpress is the way to go?

I'm tracking two of my sites  joeandcindy.com and minnesotashortsaleteam.com, both sites were done in wordpress however by different web designers.  the Minnesota short sale site has gotten high rankings for several key terms without doing any link building or really any other off site optimization.  I'm getting ready to have another site built and I'm wondering if there is something simple in the basic architecture of the site that is superior with the minnesota short sale site vs the joeandcindy.com site.  If you could take quick glance and point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.  Thanks

www.Joeandcindy.com

www.Minnesotashortsaleteam.com

Actually I have purchased a couple of directory listings/links over the past week or so.   By using the open site explorer I was submitting to directories (paid directories) that my top competitors use....   Could that be the problem?    If so how can I correct?    How do I get another Linkscape update?

Thanks for response!!!

Realized some major slipping on some of my most important keywords- mn realtors and minnesota homes for sale- my site is joeandcindy.com    After months of working on traffic, blogs etc, wondering what could slap me 10-25 spots in just  a few days.  There were no errors showing up on the report that I can see.  Just looking for some quick advice on what I might be missing and some quick action steps I might take to reverse the trend.  Thanks!

Actually I have purchased a couple of directory listings/links over the past week or so.   By using the open site explorer I was submitting to directories (paid directories) that my top competitors use....   Could that be the problem?    If so how can I correct?    How do I get another Linkscape update?

Thanks for response!!!