I've watched the Matt Cutts video where he says internal links are natural. However, the site I'm working on has a lot of text links in the body of the copy. It is a majority of the links the site is receiving. Could that hurt our SEO endeavors?
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Site was infected with spam webmaster tools still reporting itposted in Technical SEO
I have recently been working with a site that was hacked. It suffered from a pharma injection into Joomla. The site has been cleaned for several months, but WMT is still reporting "pharmacy" as occuring 421 times. The url it gives reports a 500 error. I also removed it in Google. Can this still be hurting the site? How can I clean this up?
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Stopping slow steady declineposted in Technical SEO
I work for an ecommerce company and I have been tasked with trying to understand our lack of organic traffic. For the past two years our organic traffic is in free fall. We have 80% drop in organic visits since summer 2011. I can't put my finger on what is causing it. Here are a few hypothesis I've tried.
Penalty - I don't think it is a penalty because we still have some first page results.
Penguin- I know in the past (10 years), we haven't used gray hat (paying for blogging) strategies. But I don't see a steep decline that would lead me to think its a penguin update.
Panda - For the past two years we have been re-writing content for our 10,000 products and creating videos. But even though our content is better than every, we haven't had any uptick in organic traffic.
Does anyone have any suggestions on where / how to investigate these issues further?
I've attached our organic traffic graph. October 2011 we launched a new site, saw a large dip in traffic. It slightly rebounded, and then has slowly suffocated ever since.
