• On Sep 3, we got a Manual Action by Google: unnatural links to your site

• Immediately we arranged to have all those links the rel="nofollow" atttributes, these were links set by our customers since we are hosting providers.

• We sent a reconsideration request to Google on Sep 8 and this is their answer: 
  We’ve reviewed the reconsideration requestfor xxxx and modified its status, but we still believe that content on your site or links to your site are outside our quality guidelines. No more info provided. - We double checked everything but could not find anything else that could harm us so we asked Google (in a new reconsideration request sent on Sep 11 to provide us some samples.

• On Sep 24 Google answers with a sample of 3 sites which contains links to us. After verification, all the external links to us have the rel="nofollow" attribute !!

• Today the manual action is not anymore a side-wide one but a partial one and applies to unnatural links--impact links.

So it seems that we need to physically have those links removed? As well I checked https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604772?ctx=MAC  and he does not refer at all about setting the rel="nofollow" attribute, Looks like Google wants the full monopoly on text links.

Why are you inserting

outside

<header>?</header>

OK but you don't answer to my question since we do not want any mega menu or drop down menu.

Well there are in general SEO concerns in the use of navigation Mega Menu style and this is why we want to avoid it.

I am building a website which will have a main navigation related to the site and each link of the main navigation will have a secondary navigation. We do not want to use a megamenu style navigation. I will try to explain it with a example:

Let's start with an example for a computer store "My PC Store", the Main Navigation would be:

Desktop PC's Notebook & Tablets
Multimedia

When clicking on the "Notebook & Tablets" the user is directed to the page domain.com/notebook-tablet.html and on this page the secondary navigation appears: Laptop Netbook Tablets / iPad I am confused on how I should organize the semantic navigation for best SEO performances and I need advice / suggestions. I thought about 2 different ways to do it but which one is more appropriate in terms of SEO? PROPOSITION A Home Page:

<header>

My PC Store <nav>

• Desktop PC's
• Notebook & Tablets
• Multimedia </nav> </header>

Sub-Page (Notebook & Tablets):

<nav>(or

<aside>?)

• Desktop PC's
• Notebook & Tablets
• Multimedia </aside>

</nav>

<header>

Notebook & Tablets <nav>

• Laptop
• Netbook
• Tablets / iPad </nav> </header>

As you notice on the home page the Main Site Navigation is included in the

<header>while it is not in the sub-pages.

PROPOSITION B

Home Page:

<header>

My PC Store

<nav>

• Desktop PC's

• Notebook & Tablets

• Multimedia

</nav>

</header>

Sub-Page (Notebook & Tablets):

<header>

Notebook & Tablets <nav>

• Desktop PC's
• Notebook & Tablets
• Multimedia </nav> # Notebook & Tablets * Laptop
• Netbook
• Tablets / iPad </header>

The main navgation remains always in the

<header>(home page / sub-pages) of all page.

I need suggestions... How would you guys organize the nav ?

</header>

</header>

Well KEYWORD Z is a very competitive keyword I do agree as well as is KEYWORD A. SEOmoz gives me an A grade for the On-Page optimization. It looks like some companies (at better position than us) purchased tons of links for KEYWORD Z but Google isn't doing anything about it...

I have a website which perform very well for some keywords and much less for other keywords. I would like to try to optimize the keywords with less performance.

Let's say our website offers 2 main services: KEYWORD A and KEYWORD Z. KEYWORD Z is a very important keyword for us in terms of revenue.

KEYWORD A gives us position Nr 1 on our local Google and redirect properly the visitors to xxxxxx.com/keyword-a/keyword-a.php

KEYWORD Z perform badly and gives us position Nr 7 on local Google search. 90% Google traffic is sent to xxxxxx.com/keyword-z/keyword-z.php and the other 10% is sent to the home page of the website.

The Homepage is a "soup" of all the services our company offers, some are important (KEYWORD Z) and other much less important.

In order to optimize the keyword KEYWORD Z we were thinking to make a permanent redirect for xxxxxx.com/keyword-z/keyword-z.php to xxxxxx.com and optimize the content of the Homepage to ONLY describe our KEYWORD Z. I am not sure if Google gives more importance in the content of the homepage or not. Of course links on the homepage to other pages like xxxxxx.com/keyword-a/keyword-a.php will still exists. The point for us is maybe to optimize better the homepage and give more importance to the KEYWORD Z.

Does it make sense or not?

We have a page on a website (let's name it ABC) which ranks very well on Google for a specific keyword but this keyword is not the main activity of website ABC.

For this reason we created website XYZ for offering the services related to the specific keyword.

How shall we redirect the visitors from website ABC to website XYZ so XYZ gets all the weight ? Is it best to do an HTTP301 from the specific page on site ABC or from site ABC, remove nearly all content related to the keyword and create a link to website XYZ ?

Your advice is well appreciated.

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Well KEYWORD Z is a very competitive keyword I do agree as well as is KEYWORD A. SEOmoz gives me an A grade for the On-Page optimization. It looks like some companies (at better position than us) purchased tons of links for KEYWORD Z but Google isn't doing anything about it...