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Many website design companies do this with clients, putting "Web Design By company name" and adding a link either to the exact anchor text, or their company name. We experimented with this and found that there is a diminishing return on links like this, because our clients websites have nothing to do with web design.

This would probably be the same case for privacy policies for websites. Because the clients websites won't have anything to do with legal documents, it may not be the best linking strategy.

I do think giving it away for free is a good strategy. Instead of demanding them to provide a link from their website however, I'd try to get them to promote it on social media. Make easy share buttons from the documents with text like "We just got a free privacy policy for our website from (link to your clients company)"

Hope this helps

Jarod,

It looks like there's some suspicious links to your website, including one "link network" from city.lucarelli.com. It may look like a link network to Google, especially when there's the same exact match text (Wedding Decorations) for each one.. I'd also remove links from linkpartners.com. I just took a quick look, but there's a few links from lower domain authorities than you which probably aren't helping your site.

Hope this helps! From my own experience, it's been taking 15-30 days to get sites back after an algorithm change like this... So be patient is the best advice I can give you, after you clean up your link profile.

I'm seeing the same thing.

From what I see in the Google Blog, that sends you to here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3141229

Local monthly searches and global monthly searches: These two columns have been replaced by the "Average monthly searches" column, simplifying the search volume data you can get. The average monthly search volume is specific to your targeting settings, and you can get data for an entire country or individual cities and regions within a country. Note that you can still get global monthly search data by targeting all locations.

But based on past numbers, this is not an average at all. "Flooring London Ontario" should have the same local and global searches... Yet, it went from 1300 (Keyword Tool) to 210 (Keyword Planner) local monthly searches.

Keep us updated on anything you find! This would make a great Blog Post for someone who has the time to do a proper investigation

We have a client www.atvandtrailersales.com who recently (March) fell out of the rankings. We checked their backlink file and found over 100 spam links pointing at their website with terms like "uggboots" and "headwear" etc. etc.

I submitted a disavow link file, as this was obviously an attack on the website.

Since the recent Panda update, the client is back out of the rankings for a majority of keyword phrases. The disavow link file that was submitted back in march has 90% of the same links that are still spamming the website now.

I've sent a spam report to Google and nothing has happened. I could submit a new disavow link file, but I'm not sure if this is worth the time.

'.'< --Thanks!