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I was hit very hard in the last Google update. Yes, i was building links. Before i started doing that, i was earning $1 a day despite having a very good blog. i saw my income rise to $3000 a month over the last year.  Now I'm back to $1 a day. I have suspected it was coming for the last two months because of the things Matt Cutt's has been saying. Worked hard to avoid it but not hard enough. i stopped using blog networks after Build my Rank got hit.  I've been using another tool known as ABC3000 or Automatic Backlink Creator. Its not automatic. 😉 That's the tool that got me the rankings and that's the tool that took them away. 🙂 I've removed all links from the tool now. Yeah, I know its a bad sign to loose 10,000 links all at once but Google already knows so the best thing to do is get ride of them. ALL of my sites were hit, not deindexed. I'm seeing minus 30 and minus 100 penalties. One of the websites has 10,000 + Pages. I've got one on page issue that revolves around my forum, vBulletin is causing a massive amount of duplicate page titles. I don't know how to fix that. It looks like each post creates a new page with the title of thread. I plan ot move it to another domain but I'm fearful of doing that. I'm not sure how. I will research it. But the Google slap is massive and I'm really wondering if I have any hope of restoring a site with good content and good social signals with good engagement. A TRUE bounce rate of less than 30% was higher before the slap at about 23%. I have an average of 4 to 5 minutes per visitors. All my stats look great except 1.  That's SERP results as of April 24th, also known as my personal dooms day. haha Trying to keep my head up but it is starting to get hard now. Thanks for the help, Rusty

I have seen countless SEO "experts" suggest internal links are great to help the search engines find your content.  I wonder if that is true any more.  It seems like a sitemap would do a better job. I think tags may even hurt the content I want to Google to know as most important. I'm using Simple Tags on all of my WP sites. If it "sees" a word in the article that is also a tag it adds a link for that tag to a listing of all the articles with that tag. It only does this once per tag though. Going on the experts advice, I thought this was a good idea.  But now, I'm thinking these tags reduce the value of links to my eBook or other content i want to feature. Which doesn't get tagged much since I don't promote it all that often on my site within content.  I make it nearly impossible to miss it on the site though. 🙂 What I do see the tags doing is helping users find the content. So I do see it improving the bounce rate and giving uses an assist in finding more content about what they are looking for. I have tags marked as noindex follow. But I'm really considering now removing the links. I hate plugins anyway. 🙂  Seems I'm always finding another must have plugin though. Now I'm thinking I'd be better off to just add links manually into the content that I really want to feature.  All these automatic links I'm generating can't be good. Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I found this on the MOZ site.  It confused me. "Whereas MozRank measures the link juice (ranking power) of both internal and external links, external MozRank measures only the amount of mozRank flowing through external links (links located on a separate domain). Because external links can play an important role as independent endorsements, external mozRank is an important metric for predicting search engine rankings." In the tool bar and other places in Moz am I seeing the combo Internal or the External and how do I get to each?  Maybe I'm just reading this wrong. 🙂

I'm a newbie here. I've got a week left on my free trail. I really like SEOmoz, I might even love it a bit. 🙂 I'm trying to justify the cost. I usually don't spend money on my Internet Marketing.  I've done it through finally buying some tools to help me get there. Massive change in the last year. I'm a long ways from getting rich YET though. 🙂 I've gone from $30 a month to $1000 a month in a year. So I think I'm on my way now. I'm trying to figure out why I should continue my subscription and actually start paying for it. If I were a developer I can certainly see why but the cost would so go way up. 🙂 I'm in the lowest level package with only five websites. I have 10 I'm working on. I know that's probably five to many at one time. I'm having a little trouble justifying the cost at this time. At my income level $100 a month is significant. I can see the value of seeing where my competition has backlinks. Sometimes my competition is Cnet. haha Well, I can beat them on a specific page at times. Hmm, can I search the URL list for links? Perhaps i can if I export it. That didn't occur to me. Now that could be of use if I can find my keywords. If their link is on Amazon though, I'm going to have trouble getting a link there. 🙂 Maybe I should work on less competitive links but I made good money last month with one page that was beating them. WAS beating them. How do you use SEOmoz? How do you justify the cost, that is offset the expense. If its not making me money i don't see the value. I can get a lot of this information for free but it sure is easier to get it here. Which saves me time. And the other tool i use isn't that good and not always reliable and slow. I've got a week left on my free trail. I had decided to let it go but now I'm reconsidering. $100 is a lot for me and I need to spend more on SEO outsourcing. I wonder if I wouldn't be better off dropping it for a while and then coming back. This certainly isn't mean to be a critical post at all. I'm looking for reasons to stay and make better use of it. Thanks for the thoughts, Rusty

I'm seeing a lot of keywords with very little traffic but high, sometimes very high cost per click in AdWords. Can someone explain to me why this is common? I'm researching buying keywords.  With the low traffic they seem like little value but when I see people $20 a click it seems like high converting and thus maybe worth going after. But the high cost is just not making any sense to me for many of these keywords. Thanks.

I'm looking or keywords that I may have failed to target.  It would seem that the traffic data SEO MOZ provides could be  a source for that. I thought I'd look at: URLs Receiving Entrances Via Search and URLs Receiving Entrances Via Search but I can only find the top 10 results or each.  I already know my most popular keywords, I need to find ones that are not getting as much traffic as they could. Is there a way to dig down deeper into this? I'm having trouble finding the value in this information for the top 10. What am I missing? Thanks!

My site bestdslrreview dot net was ranking number one for Canon T3i. I was amazed considering my competition. 🙂 Canon T3i was at number 3 to 5 usually for US traffic.. Canon 7d review was ranking number 2 and Canon 7D was on page one. Canon 7D keywords dropped about 10 places but Canon T3i Review dropped about 50. and same for Canon T3i. I worry about a number of things, including thin affiliate site but I don't know, my articles are original. I also worry about to many links with my keywords in anchor text. My on page results from SEOMOZ look great to me. This drop was my main reasons for going ahead and signing up. Hoping I could find out what happened. The site is only about six months old. I waited probably three months before doing any significant link building. The good thing is, I was ranking high from Black Thursday until a few days before Christmas.  It can't be someone else just started doing SEO as I fell far too fall. Some kind of penalty.  I had Google do this to another of my sites once though and after a couple of months it bounced back for most of my keywords. A site very much like this one. Is this just the Google Dance? Thanks