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Thanks for the response Jesse!

Ok damn, there goes my Friday morning

I didn't see any article submissions, just comments, and a lot of them were not even followed. I haven't looked into it too much though.

This is a real shame, I hope I don't keep asking loads of companies to do it, could start getting quite boring.

Thanks again for the information, I'll start digging around tomorrow.

P.S. Any tips on getting these guys to respond to me? Legal letters perhaps?

I am having issues trying to remove the video snippet, I think it could all be related as I just read this http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-bug-affects-very-few-sites-actively-working-on-a-fix-167167

Also, it's not guaranteed to show anyway. But if it was showing before I'm not sure why it would just disappear.

I reckon it's something to do with Google in my opinion.

Hey,

Hope everyone is well.

Just a quick question. I hope to get an answer from Google officially (I've asked in their webmaster forums area) but any experience or opinions from the community here would be great.

I noticed recently that our site started to get thousands of links from comments in random blogs from all across the web. This is nothing to do with us as we don't "build links".

I can only assume it is a competitor trying to get our site hit by the algorithm for a particular search term, as all the anchor text (I estimate about 1,800 links with this anchor text) point to one page on our site that is ranking for that term.

I recently removed the website from webmaster tools and re added, due to an unrelated issue about the a video rich snippet not updating, and all the links have just popped up today on there.

Is this something I need to worry about? and should I start collecting all these domains and using the disavow tool to block the whole domain of these sites with the comments (some of them seem like genuine sites).

There seem to be new ones everyday and it looks to be an ongoing attack as well.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, this helped me

Yup Paddy is right.

I would read this blog post about PageRank Sculpting that Matt Cutts wrote http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

And I also found this video useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IE4WLPLZQ&feature=share&list=PL841CB8F9F31BF5D5

In your example the links that do not have the nofollow attribute would get 20 each.

Well actually it would be something like 19.5 each because they take a tiny bit off everytime it's passed on (otherwise the system wouldnt work mathematically).

Paddys Displays is correct, ignore what I'm saying if I'm confusing you - apologies.

That's why I'm probably not getting listed then! Haha

Link Juice or PankRank is shared between all the links on your page equally that don't have nofollow on them.

I found this video which still seems relevant http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-matt-cutts-on-nofollow

I hope that helps you.

I thought google changes the meta discriptions depending on what the user is searching for.

Is this not true in all cases then?

Yup Paddy is right.

I would read this blog post about PageRank Sculpting that Matt Cutts wrote http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

And I also found this video useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IE4WLPLZQ&feature=share&list=PL841CB8F9F31BF5D5

Just found this through the search and wanted to say it was really helpful, saved me the time of asking myself and waiting for replies

Good question!

Google will boost the ranking of new content posted for a small amount of time because of this"freshness update".

It was explained really well by these legands http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-freshness-update-whiteboard-friday.

Also check this out http://justinbriggs.org/methods-for-evaluating-freshness.

So in answer to your question (and I'm no "expert" so this is just my opinion) keep posting new content regularly to rank for those keywords where google are knocking you after 1-2 weeks, and see it as a way to drive traffic.

I don't know of any other way, maybe someone can share some further insights

In your example the links that do not have the nofollow attribute would get 20 each.

Well actually it would be something like 19.5 each because they take a tiny bit off everytime it's passed on (otherwise the system wouldnt work mathematically).

Paddys Displays is correct, ignore what I'm saying if I'm confusing you - apologies.

There are a few good ones. Check out the link profile of www.housebuyfast.co.uk (my website) for an idea of the ones I have used.

No worries

We release property every week and I do a blog post about each one, probably 2-5 properties each week then smash it out via social media (facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc). This seems to work quite nicely, though I only have to sell it once to be fair.

After this, we will also email the property out (with new content from that week), this gives that page a massive boost in traffic, which definitely slows down the process of dropping off the rankings, in my opinion.

So perhaps do a weekly email about new products and include some relative content in the email as well (as Matt said, link to the products in the content too!)

Doing this I have been steadily climbing up the rankings for my main keyword, last week I went up 15 ranks according to SEOmoz Pro! (It’s been about a month or two since I started doing this).

I think my main problem is that the site has a lot of old pages. Also the main pages need a bit of on-page optimization, so this may be something to look at as well J

Hey,

Unless there is a specific reason for not using a plugin I would install Yoasts SEO plugin. It is much easier to manage all the meta stuff with.

Here is a link: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

It's also totally free

You can read more about the meta discription on the offical google website here

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

They do use meta description, though bear in mind they don't have to. So you will find that in some rsearch results they will change it.

You can read (and watch a video) about the meta keywords here

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

That's Matt Cutts, who is head of web spam at google.

Hope that clear things up for you!

That's why I'm probably not getting listed then! Haha

I hope you can view this. . .

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo

I watched it just the other day, it was awesome