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In general you will have to decrease the number of links in your menu. Don't think that a choice of 600 links is really user-friendly. But of course that might be subjective. We have a client with about 300 well-reasoned links on menu and the site performs quite well; most of the pages have great rankings. The SeoMoz crawler still finds it inappropriate but the interaction and the rankings are good. Google are saying that you can have up to a 100 links and that is considered to be normal. Check amazon. They don't have more than 100-ish links on a single page. Think about it and try to cut the bulk from your main navigation if possible.

You can always put no-follow links to the subpages and pass seo juice to the main categories and subcategories only. That's the easiest way to solve the task but nothing will change for your users.

Hi Paul,

Here is an answer to your question.

When you started your SEO Business what software do you use to give information to your clients?

[A] Web ranking reports, Crawling Issue reports, Analytics Reports, Link Reports, Custom detailed reports with analysis

How did you decide what to charge for your services?

[A] Really depends on the type of service that you offer to your customers.

What services do you offer?

[A] SEO, PPC management, Social & Mobile campaigns. We predominantly work without giving packages to clients.

Best tools to use?

[A] If you are just starting i would recommend the following ones:

• WebCeo - for on-page analysis
• Advanced Web ranking - for web ranking reports
• MajesticSEO - for link analysis
• Seomoz tools for crawling issues and links
• Google Analytics - of course can't move forward without this one
• Basecamp - for project management and communication with your customers.

Any other information you think might be relevant?

[A] Be innovative and don't be afraid to explore different tools all the time.

Hi Shelly, it is not a secret that for really creative infographics you need the designer. However there are some low-cost infographics templates that you may find helpful. They are available over here: http://graphicriver.net/item/infographic-elements-template/113554?ref=CursiveQ&clickthrough_id=35566380&redirect_back=true&ref=CursiveQ

Not sure about Yandex but you can definitely use Advanced Web Ranking combined with dedicated location based proxies from Trusted Proxies. It is a reliable and professional solution that you can setup on your own. The quality of the data and the speed though is also realiable. We are using it for our customers and we haven't got any problems so far. If you are having a really large number of keywords and search engines to track you might need to run a few different instances with different proxies running at the same time. However even a regular enterprise license combiined with a 5 dedicated ip addresses will do a great job for a list of up to a 5000 keywords in 3-4 search engines. Stats with such a volume can be gathered twice a week per instance. There are options for scheduling the reports, and deliver them to FTP or via email.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/lost-50-google-traffic-in-one-day-panic 

Please review that one as you are not the only one experiencing that issue.

Hi Josh, I've been working with them as a client and have experienced both positive and negative outcome of  buying links over there. Text link ads are hiding your site details till someone really buys a link on it. The link becomes visible for the advertiser only if he/ she has purchases it. We have had successful campaign in the past. However the value for the advertiser changes in time as it is based on the actions of the publisher. If the publisher decides to place many links on a particular page they might cannibalize the results for the advertisers and also get deranked by google.So as a publisher you have to decide for yourself if you are going to make more money for a shorter period of time as your web page might loose some rankings or you can reduce that risk by getting a smaller sum for a longer period.

Also don't forget that Text Links Ads will be getting a large share of the money from you as a publisher. If I was at your position and if you have your own resources to manage the sales and link implementation I will definitely recommend it. However if you have the scale of sites but don't want to spend the time on it you can simply outsource it to Text Link Ads or another link brokerage platform. They are a good company that won't run away from business.

Hi Georg,

Looks like a penalty. We have experienced similar things yesterday on a number of websites which we've been adopting overly-aggressive link building tactics and it is a result of a recent google update:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

It is not a result of your onsite SEO. There might be different reasons for it but I do consider it as a result of article spinning which might have been taking part of your link building activities. Especially if the keywords that you lost rankings for have been targeted by such links - spinned content on private or public blog networks.

Have you had some kind of drop in rankings about a month ago for those particular keywords?

Kind regards,

Ivo

Google introduced an update about a month ago for overdoing anchor text links. We have had a few web sites that were penalized exactly for the same reason. They've recently introduced another update that is really hitting spinned articles tactics: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

Your web site is down in the rankings and it will recover. You just have to compensate the number of links that you have lost with other sources of links like - links from normal article directories, blog posts, etc. Make your next strategy look more natural and difersify the anchor text portfolio by including your "domain name", "visit domainname.com", "click here", "www.Domainname.com", etc. etc. I know it is not an easy thing to replicate those links in terms of volume but I guess you have to deal with it.

I think that such a practice can be quite good if you do it well and if you have a good product or site to be reviewed. You don't even need such platforms to do that. We call it Blogger outreach campaign:

1. Simply shortlist a few hundreds (or even less) of good blogs in the industry and market you want to focus on.

2. Think of a what offer you can give to them. Money most probably won't work. You can incentivise them with an affiliate offer or something really touchy and personal. Put that in your email to them or on their contact us forms or call them.

You will see that most of  the guys will reply and will be happy to cooperate. This works much better than any platform if you are going for the quality links not for the quantity.

Hi Maureen

In that case it seems that duoweb is most probably right about it.

The warning will still be there no matter what you do at this point. You don't have to resubmit your website or revamp it. Most probably the links are coming from public blogging networks and even the SEO company won't be able to remove it. Such links are already devalued by google. While waiting for a resolution try to replace them with normal quality links, links from press releases, guest blogging, etc. Diversify your anchor text portfolio. Make it look natural.