Chris,

I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this thorough answer! Truly proud to be part of such a great community!

You said some really great points and put some of my worries to ease. I will continue link building and making a few corrections.

Thanks again for your helpful advice!

Rachel

Hey Chris,

Thanks for steering me in the right direction way back in May! I was wondering what you'd suggest now... I improved the 50 pages with unique content and disavowed the links I couldn't remove, but I still have that horrible spam score :(.

Should I simply disregard it? Also, does OSE count the links that were disavowed?

Thank you,

Rachel

Hi Chris,

Thanks so much for putting in the time and effort to look into the website and answer my question.

This industry in general is full of spam and doorway pages (probably because of the hardship of getting quality links) but our competitors who have more links and spam are doing better than us and have a better spam score. Do you think if I disavow those links it will help?

You are very right about the pages that seem to be extraneous but I am actively curating content and they will be unique landing pages. Every state has its own laws and quirks in regards to medical waste and we will be focusing on that.

Do you think when I finish those task I will be able to rank better and have a lower spam rate?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again!

Hi,

I recently took on a client for local SEO and i started improving his on page optimization etc and now I'm continuing with link building. It's hard since it's a boring industry (medical waste disposal), but I have gotten some links.

When I check up his link profile in OSE, it's still giving me a spam score of 7!!! and not showing the links I have acquired. I already removed the link it's showing up by contacting the website and it's not there anymore. The site is a very clean nice site, why am I getting such a high spam score?

Thanks for your help!

Rachel

Hi There!

I've used other options out there like mechanical turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) which can be very successful IF you ask the right questions and give sufficient directions.

Good luck!

Hi Josh,

Thanks so much for this link! Finally I was able to talk to someone who guided me what to do

Miriam,

I really appreciate the lengthy explanation! It helped me feel like you understand what I am trying to accomplish and I will use your words as a guide.

Thanks for all your time and expertise!

Rachel

To add to the question, there are two office locations which I will be creating GMB accounts for. Should I be creating service areas where we have trucks on Google My Business? In other words unchecking that i service customers at my store? Is this better than not having a location at all? Can I do this also if we contract out some of our work to subcontractors in that location?

Hi Miriam,

Thanks, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer this question. One last thing, if the truck drivers officially answer phone calls from their house does that make a difference? Also, it would be less than 10 drivers.

Would you place the driver's home location on the website even if your not creating a GMB account for it?

I hope I'm not beating a dead horse, but this is pretty disappointing for me :).

Thanks again,

Rachel

Hi Miriam,

Does this response still hold true for almost 2016? I am doing local SEO for a business that is more service based, but their drivers have home offices. I am considering putting our truck drivers phone numbers and addresses as locations in the cities we have trucks. Also, can I use their regular local phone number instead of our 1800 number?

Is this strategy risky?

Thanks!

All the best,

Rachel