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Hi there,

I am rather new to linkbuilding and reach out to various sites at the moment. The interest in linking to us is very high and now I sometimes get the question where on a particular page I'd like to be linked to from.

I then do a check in opensiteexplorer to find out about the authority of the various subpages. Yet, how do I decide if one subpage has more authority while another one has more relevancy for us (in terms of the content being provided there being more related to ours)?

Thanks for your recommendations!

Best regards,

Tobias

Hi Nick,

major thanks! That sounds like a great way forward and I'll file a reconsideration request!

Luckily, the drop only showed for some internal landing pages and not the domain in general.

Cheers from Germany and another thanks,

Tobias

Hi Nick,

thanks for your thoughts! The localization is definitly something to consider, yet the drop we experienced was more than 30 places for a few keywords while others remained unchanged. Therefore I fear that there are some "worse" reasons behind this drop. The thing about information distribution to 3rd party tools might be another good lead particularly as we did not see the drop when performing a non-personalized Google search.

Do you happen to have suggestions on how to find out about Google penalties?

Best,

Tobias

Hi everybody,

for some of our keywords we saw a huge drop in ranking in the Seomoz Dashboard, yet when performing a non-personalized Google US search we still hold our old positions. Now, I am worried whether this is an upcoming Google penalty or just some bug in the latest crawl.

Did anybody ever experience something similar and how could we find out if we were indeed penalized by Google (as we did some major linkbuilding campaign for these keywords recently)?

Cheers and a major thanks for your suggestions,

Tobias