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Hi Melia, I guess you are looking for a tool or for an advice how to do that. If it is the advice that you need you have to extract all the titles in a CSV file. You may use a custom crawler like Mozenda for that purpose. It will just pick the h1 headings on every page and you will be able to extract it afterwards. Sort the data, remove the duplicates and put a structure in place that will let you create titles based on your object parameters:

<hotel name=""><location><price per="" night="">or so</price></location></hotel>

From there on you need a simple script to put those things in place as a title with the use of your CSV in the database. That's pretty much it.

Try to generate more natural looking links. Diversify your anchor text portfolio so it looks natural and continue with your link building efforts. Do it in a way like your grandma will do it.  With or without www, capital letters in the domainname, same anchor texts to different urls, use as much reasonable permutations as possible when generating the anchor texts.  Bring good quality links, links from PR, links from guest blogging, post even more unique and genuine content. That will pay off. You can become more focused once the "dust settles". If you wait you will be definitely losing time and you will still start at the same point where you are now.

Hi Brian,

The strategy looks good. The user experience is the most important element here as you will have to give the users relevant and well organized content. You can also consider adding additional elements like:

1. zip codes

2. price rage of the lessons (it will additionally give you an option to add classifiers like cheap, affordable, expensive, etc.

<classifier><instrument>lessons</instrument></classifier>

3. favoured (based on the rankings)

4. popular (based on usage and popularity)

Such elements can expand your potential exposure and you will surely generate more traffic pretty soon. You will still have unique content because you will be generating different results based on the elements chosen by the user, unique testimonials, etc.

I hope you have a custom search in place which will make the job for the users easier. But still you may add some quick links in the footer which will orientate them pretty well. For example:

Search by <city>,  Search by <instrument>Lessons, Search by Price, Search by Popularty and so on. Place 10-15 links under each of these classifiers and you will be . Of course you can do even better if you split the process in some logical steps like choosing the City first, Then the type of lesson, than the price or popularity. Feel free to contact me for any questions or suggestions that you might have.</instrument></city>

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.

You might also consider using spcial characters within your meta description like: ★ 

Use only only one at a time otherwise google ignores it. But in general it is a great way to improve organic CTR's if used appropriately.

Hi Maureen

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

Hi, Are you sure that the authoritative websites that you have placed the links on aren't blocking the SEOmoz crawler? Just check their robots.txt which should be located under authoritativedomainname.com/robots.txt.

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.

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 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

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.

It works and they let you use up to 2 do-follow links. However don't expect traffic from it. I would even say don't expect traffic from all the regular article directories. You can also consider ezinearticles.com. They really need unique and quality content. Everything is being published after manual approval. Just use them for links. Not sure how good it is for brand exposure as they have traffic from all over the world which in most of the cases will be irrelevant to the type of business that you want to promote.

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.

Thank you guys!

Thanks Simon, will try those. Do you think that google applies different ranking factors when it comes to Wikipedia in general?

Hi Guys,

One of our clients has a good web site with lots of content that is ranked already on #2 for the top keyword (singular and plural) on Google UK. The keyword itself is a competitive one. The top spot is occupied by a wikipedia article that doesn't have much content in general.  Can anyone come up with an advice what strategy we have to apply to outplace that article? Thanks!

it is really interesting what happens if a competitor starts a bad PR or such a bad links campaign. Large numbers of bad links from totally irrelevant websites. How does google prevent that? Any ideas on that topic?

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

Hi Paul, PDF or EXCEL. Doesn't need to be branded. Depends how much effort it requires. And giving them a report from seomoz is somehow transparent and credible.

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 Eric, I do really think that it really depend how are you going to do the link building for them. If you hit the major 3 keywords with the links you will pretty much achieve your goal. The long-tail doesn't deliver as much traffic as the major 3 phrases.

I do think that everything above 600 words can be good. It really depends how competitive the keyword you are competing for is? It it is a really competitive one you better have more words and a few different headings.

Usually article directories are not letting you submit an article that is less than 400-450 words without the summary, heading and resource box ( or article bio) being counted. The average length of a press release is about 800 words. Wikipedia articles are usually longer than that but they are much more informative.

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.

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.