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I do see on this page https://www.blogmutt.com/pages/customer there is a How It Works with the following:

1. We write a blog post on the suggested topic using the ideal number of keywords.
2. You post the content to your blog.
3. Your site's SEO improves.
4. Through your blog, you will engage new customers.

Could it be that they feel this is a guarantee that you can't back? I'm not saying anything against you or your company here, but just trying to see where Google might find an issue with things. One of the conditions in Advertiser Claims is "All advertising claims must be factually supportable." https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1331529?hl=en&ref_topic=1310871

Is it relevant to the post? If not, a good site would remove the link.

If you only just today learned that, you're much more of a recluse than I thought!

Have you tried browsing the site with the googlebot user agent? Could those sites have been hacked, and only show the spam if they think you're Google? I've seen that hack before, though don't know if any of those links have ever been in a sample bad link report from Google.

I've walked in to Sears and asked where the maternity section was. Even mimed a huge belly. Clerk didn't understand what I was talking about. Thankfully, most employees are a bit better than this, and I do like EGOL's approach.

OSE and the API are down right now, which is causing problems with the Moz Toolbar. If you keep an eye on our Twitter account, we'll keep you posted there with the status (I'm actually on vacation right now, and will not have good connectivity, so won't be able to update this thread myself).

A different forum may have an audience that is better suited to answer this question. Right now, this is like asking for reviews of the best steak sandwich in a vegan forum. For an honest answer to your question, I do suggest a different forum. For trolling, I ask that it not occur on this forum.

The community here is open to helping, but not as open to a question that turns into something where their are being used for a different purpose.

I'm locking this thread.

Great! What are you looking for in a content spinner? What resources have you looked at? What kind of use do you want out of it? I asked for more clarification in the first response on this thread so that we could better help you.

Can we help you with a question in Q&A? This is getting off-topic, and may be locked without further warning.

This was on an external site. It was not my content, I had no editing capabilities.

Incidentally, the person was asking about the site in Q&A. Their friend owned it, and was wondering why it was not ranking.

Can you add some context as to where you'd like to use this spun content, so we can help you better?

Generally, content that has gone through a spinner isn't of the best quality. I've seen an article about alcoholism that was spun. Instead of "Think Before You Drink", it had been changed to "Think Before You Beverage".

Will the types of sites where your content would get noticed by the right people accept a copy of content that has been published elsewhere?

Will they want to publish content where you may outrank them, since you are the original publisher?

Are you willing for their version of the content to outrank yours, if they have a more powerful site?

Actually, Bing has said that a bad meta keywords (spammy) can be a negative signal to them.

http://searchengineland.com/the-meta-keywords-tag-lives-at-bing-why-only-spammers-should-use-it-96874

And with Google testing out things on a daily basis, it's hard to determine with just one test if it was you or them.

I can't find anything from Google that talks about order of importance in this case. They list the tags that they understand at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en and just say to have them in the head section.

You may be interested in reading this post from Matt Cutts of Google at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/.  The post starts with "Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging out with really bad company."

I manage the guest post submissions to YouMoz here at Moz, and just today turned down a 2000-word post with original content because it didn't meet our standards of having actionable information for our readers, and had a blatant and unrelated link to the author's company. The good sties are getting a lot stricter about guest posting, especially in 2014.

We have a good post on pagination right now on YouMoz at http://moz.com/ugc/seo-guide-to-google-webmaster-recommendations-for-pagination, which could be a good place to ask that quesiton.

Hi Christine,

We don't have those real-time capabilities, unfortunately. I'm on the community team, and we also use external tools for our daily management of Twitter (currently Exact Target/Cotweet, but are looking for alternatives).

I looked at some of your content, and some of it seems quite thin, such as the regulations for each state. There's really only a couple of sentences (in the instances that I saw) that deal with the individual state, and then there's a lot of boilerplate content, navigation, and other site elements that are the same from page to page. Just one more thing to think about.

A couple of things I'd do right away:

Look in Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any notices there (I'm going to assume that it's Google where you are no longer ranking).

Look in your analytics to see if there was a particular day that you dropped off. You can then look to see if that coincided with any known algorithm update.

Moz Page Authority is a separate metric. Sadly, we have no pipeline from Google where they tell us exactly what they think of a site. We update our metrics about every month, so it may take a couple of months to see authority changed to a new page in Moz.

Yikes! Looks like we have a bug here. I'm going to create a ticket so we can follow up with you.

I took a look at your account, and the one thing I'd try is to do the www search for just the domain itself, and not the subfolder you added. I'm also going to have our help desk take a closer look at this to make sure everything is working properly and fix things if there is an issue.

Hi Jen,

We don't have a date for plans to expand to Canada at the moment, but we do know there is quite a demand for it. I'm not sure about a similar tool for Canadians, but I'm going to ask Miriam to take a look at this question, as she's our local expert.

Keri

Hi Adam,

When you're looking at the ranking on your own computer, are you using an incognito browser where you're not logged in to the search engine and don't have any search history?

For the keyword, is it a local result? Plain search result? Image result? On occasion, that can also trip us up.

You should start to see some changes in the next OSE update.

The Mozscape index currently updates about once a month. It can take 1-2 updates for your links to show up. We don't have as deep as an index as Google, so we may not see all of the links. Do also verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools and check there for your links.

Are you saying 10-20 comments on each blog each week? That's going to look quite unnatural.

What if the blogs decide to nofollow their comments? Would you still be happy to have your comments there? Is there a purpose to your commenting besides the hope of passing page rank?

I honestly wouldn't go for any of them. If I were going to post on a site other than my own site, I'd look for something in my field where there would be visitors that are actually interested in my niche. Do it for the readers, not for the search engines.

Would you go to one of the above sites on your own if you were not guest posting there? If one of the above sites got hit in an algorithm update, or chose to nofollow their links, would you still want the post there?

I'm locking this question and disabling further replies. If the original poster would like more feedback, it's best to create a new question at this point.

Hi Scott,

Have you checked your spam folder? I'm looking at the help desk, and do see that we answered you on May 14th.

Just a quick note that Thomas's answer was made before the question was edited and changed. The response was not to asking for talking about link building, but to a different question. For readers who don't know this, his response looks a bit off and harsh.

I haven't used it for those purposes, but Craigslist would also want to know about that type of spam. If you're going to complain about a TOS violation, it's best that you not also violate their TOS.

Give them as much information as possible -- search queries that show the ads from the same person, how you identify it as the same person/entity, and make sure the queries don't have any false positives.

Have you tried contacting abuse@craigslist.org? That's where to report things like this.

Flagging software and services would be a violation of their TOS as well (see Use at http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use).

I've never hired a link builder and don't have direct experience in this. I can just say get as educated as possible before hiring anyone.

My personal opinion is not to worry about it, but I'll ask around here for a second opinion from someone with a little more experience in this space.

We have some good background information about search engines and SEO in general at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo that can help you with the bigger picture, too.

If you sat down for lunch with someone from a search engine and they looked at the link, would you be comfortable or squirming?

Can you list the title? We sometimes have problems with non-latin character sets. Right now, we don't have enough info to give you a solid answer. Thanks!

If you would prefer not to list those details in a public forum, you can create a help ticket at https://moz.com/help/contact and we'll take a look at it there.

No notices from Google in Google Webmaster Tools? Do check there to see if there is any information.

As a consumer, this site raises several red flags for me. The site is just over a month old, there is no indication to the user of a way to contact the site by phone or mail (though privacy policy indicates this can be done), the WHOIS shows a registration based in China, and the images are stock images (despite text saying that it is actual inventory). These same factors may also raise concern with anyone doing a manual review of your site. The links to this site are also few and suspicious.

It could be that this is a very spammy space and Google has cracked down on sites that have little original content and have signals that they may not be totally legitimate.

I wanted to add a couple of comments from personal experience from a previous job I had. There are various levels of white labeling, and it can be a bit tricky to get it so that it either shows that it's coming from your domain, or from a domain that's not associated with Moz (and using a private registration for WHOIS in case the client looks at the full headers to see where things are coming from, looks that up, etc.).

I'll let Nicci respond when she has a response back from the development team, but I would like to second making sure that you've put this in our feature request forum at the URL that she gave. That's the place where we gather feature requests, see comments from other users on the request, and use it to help prioritize the features. That's the best place to be squeaky!

This should be working now. Could you give it another try?

Thanks!

It's an error that just popped up, and it's our fault, not yours. We're investigating what happened and will let you know when there's a fix.

Are the forms going through a third-party processor on a different domain or different subdomain? Dealing with goal completion when it's not on the same domain and you don't have full access to the other domain can be a bit tricky. I had a developer grow a few more gray hairs when she set up ecommerce tracking on my site that uses an external payment processor.

In the new version of Firefox, I believe you can go to View, Toolbars, and select title. I did that for the whole two hours or so I kept 29, before downloading 28 and reinstalling.

I get a ton of emails every day from people overseas, and even some domestic, offering me SEO services. I ask them to optimize our About Us page, and include a screenshot of http://www.strikemodels.com/about-us/ with

If you contact us with offers to help with the website design or optimization, you will receive a screenshot of this very statement. If we’re in a bad mood, you’re likely to get the spelling and grammar in your proposal picked apart, and glaring errors in your website pointed out (for the 10% of you that aren’t using a disposable gmail address).

highlighted in red. I either hear nothing, or will often get a response that they would be happy to help optimize that page, not even having looked at the image.

I wouldn't trust them, personally, without extensive vetting...and that time and effort would probably be better spent on you yourself making the connections that can lead to links.

That's similar to "how long is a piece of string". If your keywords are sex, drugs, and lawsuit, it's going to be way higher than if you're looking for waterproof sail winch servos, georgetown gallery antique mahogany furniture, and lompoc high school yearbook.

Are there parameters being indexed? Is www and non-www getting indexed at the same time? Categories and tags being indexed? Any dev changes to the site that you know of?

I do see for the root domain that there are 8500 links, and only about 400 of them are external. Do you perhaps have absolute internal links using non-www, but your campaign is using www?

It's going to be a bit more difficult if they have no physical presence in those cities. Can you give us a little more information about the type of business?