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So, doing a little more checking I have looked at the source of several
of the link pages from siteloki.com and I was not able to find a link to our
website on the page. So, how is Google considering this a link?
Here is a page: http://www.siteloki.com/keyword/ad Remember there are currently 13,005 of these?
Is this a malware, virus or something that has infected my site?
Here is a short sample of the links:
http://www.siteloki.com/keyword/Online%20Digital%20Prints
So, doing a little more checking I have looked at the source of several
of the link pages from siteloki.com and I was not able to find a link to our
website on the page. So, how is Google considering this a link?
Here is a page: http://www.siteloki.com/keyword/ad Remember there are currently 13,005 of these?
Is this a malware, virus or something that has infected my site?
Here is a short sample of the links:
http://www.siteloki.com/keyword/Online%20Digital%20Prints
Francisco,
I posted this as a question this morning. . .
In the process of trying to figure out where all of the “Bad” backlinks are coming from I used the SEOmoz Site Explorer. I can see the links that may be questionable but am not sure how to determine if these are the issue causing the loss of rank or could it be something else. On Google webmasters they list Siteloki.com as the one with the most links. The count is now at 13,005. (see attached WMT report)
I first noticed this a month ago, 6,742 links and have tried contacting them with no reply, no results, I have even posted on the site asking to be removed from their listing and not response.
I do not understand why this site is not showing up in the Site Explorer link analysis report (See attached)?
Could this be some sort of hack or hidden links that Site Explorer does not see?
How do I determine if this is real or not, if it is the reason that Google is demoting us? Google says that we are not being manually penalized?
I have been trying to understand how Google is applying the Algorithmic penalty based on bad backlinks. Google has told us that we are not being manually penalized and Matt Cutts explains that even though you may not be manually penalized you could be demoted based on the algorithm.
Is Google using the anchor text from the “Bad Links” and applying that to the search results when those keywords are used? If so that could account for the strange search results that I am seeing.
Any thoughts on this?
In the process of trying to figure out where all of the “Bad” backlinks are coming from I used the SEOmoz Site Explorer. I can see the links that may be questionable but am not sure how to determine if these are the issue causing the loss of rank or could it be something else. On Google webmasters they list Siteloki.com as the one with the most links. The count is now at 13,005. (see attached WMT report)
I first noticed this a month ago, 6,742 links and have tried contacting them with no reply, no results, I have even posted on the site asking to be removed from their listing and not response.
Website: www.getyourphotosoncanvas.com
I do not understand why this site is not showing up in the Site Explorer link analysis report (See attached)?
Could this be some sort of hack or hidden links that Site Explorer does not see?
How do I determine if this is real or not, if it is the reason that Google is demoting us? Google says that we are not being manually penalized?
I agree that I should first tackle the cause of the drop.
How do I correct the problem? I don't even know where to start!
Thanks for the information on the backlinks. I have looked at the backlinks from SEOmoz Open Site Explorer and see what you are talking about but really don’t understand where they all came from “Except for probably the Globat.com SEO program from a year ago” as I mentioned most of them reference pages that no longer exist and use phrases that Globat.com had recommended. When I contacted Globat they are telling me that these are good links and that Google is not penalizing me for those. Are they lying to me? I left them because I didn’t think that they were helping me with SEO they never once asked me about any change in content, titles or descriptions. I guess they were building links and that was it.
Now, how do I fix this?
And as I mentioned to Francisco, I still don’t understand the strange results from the search that returns different pages from my website with descriptions that are not correct and keywords that do not exist on that page?
Francisco,
Thanks for your feedback, I understand what you are saying and I think that is great information regarding the marketing strategy. I would agree that I have probably gone too far in trying to optimize the website and not giving enough consideration to the marketing aspect. This is something that I will work on during what I hope will be a recovery period.
Our visits were never very high, averaging around 50-60 per day prior to the drop. We were at 56 page rank for the home page. I had been working on trying to increase the ranking then the bottom fell out.
Most of our business is from direct traffic in our real brick and mortar Photo Art Gallery in St. Augustine, big tourist traffic area, and we give each of our visitors a Boucher with our website on it. We were averaging about 2-3 orders per day from organic search traffic and roughly the same from direct traffic. Now that organic search traffic is gone.
I still don’t understand the strange results from the search that returns different pages from my website with descriptions that are not correct and keywords that do not exist on that page?
Let me know about that wedding photo maybe we can work out a
deal.
Here is the Organic Analytics for April.
I understand what you are saying but not sure how I would “New Term” De-Optimize the titles?
Are you suggesting that it might be better to not use the words photo or canvas in the individual page titles? For example: “Free Convert to Black and white” as opposed to “Free Convert to Black and White for Your Photo on Canvas Prints”. The assumption being that the description and content would explain that the conversion was for photos on canvas?
This seems contrary to what SEOmoz on page analysis is telling me? But I am open to any good ideas!
