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Thanks, Rand.  It's kind of an honor to have you speaking up on my little question here!

It's probably predictable that someone (or more than one) would try to monetize this sort of trick, because of the Google pronouncements that you mentioned and the other articles that have appeared about CTR and time-on-site behavior.

Too bad.  I guess that we all have to actually earn all those visits and page views.  

Thanks, Ray.  What you said confirms what I speculated - too good to be true.  And not entirely above-board, either.

It seems like a less-than-white hat approach, and anyway I don't know whether or not it could work.

Does anyone have any advice about it?

Thanks!

Hi -

I am responsible for a small but growing number of websites for companies that serve the elderly population.  I need help with link building for these websites and I'm looking for suggestions on finding one or two professionals to whom I can outsource that work.

1.  Can you recommend anyone for this need, someone I can contact who you know to be qualified and professional?

2.  Can you give me an idea of what such services should cost?

Thanks!

I am no longer satisfied with paying for my "Pro" moz membership.  I miss having phone support, but moz personnel have told me, "don't worry, we have chat support, and that's just as good!"

So just now I tried to downgrade my membership status from "pro" to free", but now you have to fill in ALL of your credit card information, just to cancel(!)  If you don't believe me, just try it.

Anyway, I thought that maybe I was just not understanding how to do it, so I tried using the chat system to ask for help, and here's what happened.

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me: How do I downgrade from my current "pro" subscription to a free subscription (if there still is such a thing as a free one)?
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Sorry for the delay! We've got more chats than usual. If you need to run, please feel free to leave us a message and we'll get back to you soon. Thanks!
me: Pretty ironic. I am cancelling my paid subscription because you dropped phone support but you (your company) told me, "oh don't worry, chat support is just as good"

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And, I waited for ten minutes before giving up and asking here.  I hope that at least some other customer can answer this question for me.

This is a perfect example of why phone support is important, chat support is ok but not always sufficcient, and why in general it's not satisifactory (to me, at least), to basically tell customers to go ask for help in the Q&A forums because the company won't budget sufficiently to provide customer support with its own personnel.

Sad, too, because I've been a moz customer for over 4 years.  There just isn't enough difference in value for me to continue, considering the other tools that are available now, some of which do provide satisfactory support.

Thanks, for anyone who can answer my question.

Never mind.  I figured it out (the solution i discovered: export the rankings data to a csv file; perhaps there's a better way, but it works).

Simple question: once you've built up a big set of keywords within Moz, how do you export it back out to use in other places?

Thank you for taking time to respond to my question, Craig.  I appreciate your help.

Re: "Contacting the sites to get the anchor text changed": that's not going to work in this case.  They're just spammy link webs / farms and they don't respond to such requests.

We are indeed publishing new content and working to get some new links via that approach.

Thanks!

Hi - I'm working on a site that has somewhere between 1200 and 1500 backlinks.  Somewhere around 800 or 1000 of the links have one of four or five exact keyword phrases that this company paid a former seo to create links for.

They ranked well for those phrases until last fall and then almost overnight they fell completely out of the first 50 SERP results.   They did NOT receive a manual penalty.  This leads me to two questions:

1.  This sounds like they were hit by Penguin, rather than Panda.  Do I have that right?

2.  Is there any value in disavowing the 800 or so spammy links?  Is there any danger in doing so?

Thanks!

Thanks for pointing out that article.  I appreciate your help.

Thanks, Ray.  What you said confirms what I speculated - too good to be true.  And not entirely above-board, either.

Thank you for taking time to point that out.  I appreciate your help!

Never mind.  I figured it out (the solution i discovered: export the rankings data to a csv file; perhaps there's a better way, but it works).

Thanks, Rand.  It's kind of an honor to have you speaking up on my little question here!

It's probably predictable that someone (or more than one) would try to monetize this sort of trick, because of the Google pronouncements that you mentioned and the other articles that have appeared about CTR and time-on-site behavior.

Too bad.  I guess that we all have to actually earn all those visits and page views.