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I think must be used just like a tool to get important data, but you must review each link one by one. I have recently had a penalty from google, and used link detox. It was nice to get the data and other information, like sitewide links, same ip c-block and so on, but, you need to check each one and make a decistion about it.
Use the "Ultimate guide to Google Penalty removal" that you can find here in Moz to decide which links are good for you and which are bad.

http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal

it was useful for me.
I am still involve trying to remove my penalty. The first Reconsideration Request was send mostly with Link Detox information, and it didn't work, we are now working in a more manual and human perspective.

Hope you get rid of that penalty!!

Hi,

I was wondering what percentage of organic conversions is related to ppc previous traffic. I mean, when we evaluate the results of a campaign, we take a look at the cost per conversion in analytics for one specific word.

Lets say that we know that for PPC campaigns we have the following data

Adwords / PPC

Visits: 4500

%conversions rate = 1,15%

Cost per conversion = $10

ORGANIC

Visits: 1300

% conversions rate = 2,10%

DIRECT

Visitis: 1000

%conversions rate= 2,54%

It is obvious that if I cancel the adwords campaign part of the organic and direct traffic will drop too. So, I was wondering if have you ever done this calculation and if you know what percentage of the organic a direct traffic is related with de ppc campaigns.

I mean... Let's say... "20% of the ppc traffic will come back to the website as organic traffic or direct traffic", or something like that...

Anyone???

Thanks

We have a google penalty  (artificial links)

we have checked our link profile with link detox, and we found that a group of links that has no follow tag have been classified as toxic (stats websites mostly). But should we remove those links or what? They are no follow, it shoud be enough.

Should we include this links on the spreadsheet anyway? Should we include and add "no action taken"?

How would you proceed in that case?

Note: I know link detox is not great, but it helped us to collect data. But we have now to make decisions about the results, and I'm new on this and I have doubts. I would appreciate your help

Thank you!!!

Hi Nakul

No, we have not generated those links. We had a 300 links in wmt, but only 3 or 4 were generated by us. I mean, that were the ones that were linking our 2 main sitews (company sites) with that blog. That's all. What we did is just change that links to no-follow.

All the other links were just atomatically generated.

What do you think?

thanks

Hi Federico,

thanks so much for your time. I am not very satisfied with the link detox results. I have manually check each link and, a third part of the ones that it said they where low risk were bad ones, generated by bots in forums.

I will take into account your recommendations.

Thanks!!

Hi,

we are now involved in a google penalty issue (artificial links – global – all links). We were very surprised, cause we only have 300 links more less, and most of those links are from stats sites, some are malware (we are trying to fight against that), and other ones are article portals.  We have created a spreadsheet with the links and we have analyzed them using Link Detox. Now we are sending emails, so that they can be removed, or disavow the links

what happen is that we have very few links, and in 99% of then we have done nothing to create that link. We have doubts about what to do with some kind of links. We are not sure them to be bad. We would appreciate your opinion.

We should talk about two types:

• Domain stats links
• Article portals
• Automatically generated content site

I would like to know if we should remove those links or disavow them

These are examples

Anygator.com. We have 57 links coming from this portal. Linkdetox says this portal is not dangerous

http://es.anygator.com/articulo/arranca-la-migracion-de-hotmail-a-outlook__343483

more examples (stats or similar)

www.mxwebsite.com/worth/crearcorreoelectronico.es/

and from that website we have 10 links in wmt, but only one works. What do you do on those cases? Do you mark that link as a removed one?

And these other examples… what do you think about them?

More stats sites:

http://alestat.com/www,crearcorreoelectronico.es.html

http://www.statscrop.com/www/crearcorreoelectronico.es

Automated generated content examples

http://mrwhatis.net/como-checo-mi-correo-electronico-yaho.html

http://www.askives.com/abrir-correo-electronico-gmail.html

At first, we began trying to delete all links, but… those links are not artificial, we have not created them, google should know those sites.

What would you do with those sites? Your advices would be very appreciated.

Thanks

Hi,

I have checked those links too. They are automated links. It seems something like malware o something like that. We have not done any links campains never. Zeatliaip, doesn't means anything at least in Spanish, french or any other language I know.

Where have you check the backlinks? I have used wmt, ose and majestic, and it shows that kind of links are less than 87%. 34 links from 22 domains with that achor text, says majestic.

Those links are from bots, malware. But we can't do anything against them placing our link in a lot of formus and also they are doing the same with other websites.

What could I do with that? How do you proceed when your domain is being use by spammy bots?

Thanks

Hi,

I have update the doamin.

the content of the domain has been generated by us. We have not copied from other sites. We have not traslated from any site.

It is not an affilliate site.

Thank you

Hi,

I have update this message with the domain.

Hi,

the domain is www.crearcorreoelectronico.es

I have check the majestic seo, ose, and wmt and get the links. We have some links that are not good, but are automatic ones, that some portals generate.

Maybe is something related with the content. I don't know

Thanks

Hi,

we have a blog site xxxxxxxxxxx.es, that yesterday dissapear from google ranks all of a sudden

it only appears if you write xxxxxxxxx.es

I have checked gogle webmaster tools and there are no manual actions, no messages.

Also, we don't have much links pointing to this site. Webmaster tools show only 319 links.

We don't understand what have happenned. Never see something similar.

What do you think?

Any help would be appreciated.

How do you proceed in this cases? It doesn't seem to be a link problem.  How do you know what kind of penalty do you have?

Thank you.

Update:

Hi,

the domain is www.crearcorreoelectronico.es

I have check the majestic seo, ose, and wmt and get the links. We have some links that are not good, but are automatic ones, that some portals generate.

Maybe is something related with the content. I don't know

Thanks

Hi,we are working right know with an Education Instutition located Outside the U.S. I think they would be in a possition where they could get de .edu TLD.

Right know they have good rankings in its own country cause they are working with their country specific TLD, and they rank well there. But, of course, a considerable percentage of their students are foreigners, so they are very interested in improving their interantional rankings (note that U.S is not a target market).

I was wondering if it would be ok to recommend them to change to the .edu TLD, because all their competitors have that tld too.

Whould that TLD increase their domain authority inmediatly? I know that .edu is well consider by google when it sends you a link, so it would be reasonable to think that having a .edu domain would be great, but as this domain is very related with the US and all their markets are outside the U.S, I am not sure about what recommend them.

What do you think??

Thank you!!!

Thanks again John!

Hi John

Thanks so much for your advices, that for sure I will follow

We have two options with the store, move the French site to a domainstore.fr or keep it in the main domain  domainstore.com/fr. Of course we will work in french. I think the best strategy is working on the .fr site, but it means higher costs. Any idea about how the .com/fr would work? Are you using local domains or international ones?

Thanks again!!

Hi,

we are now creating an strategy for an online store that sells alcoholic beverages and also drinks to mix with them (for example for creating cocktails).

The company is located in Spain and wants to begin selling in France. We are thinking of optimizing SEO of the online store, but it is a little difficult cause the description of drinks are really similar, and the inner text too. (Gin is Gin, and you can't describe many things about it. The brand changes, and also the bottle, but it is very difficult to describe a product like that)

So we are thinking of creating a content marketing strategy and alsoa social community using facebook and twitter, and so on.

As allways we are thinking of a blog and placing the contents there and then distribute then in social networks.... As the the products are alcoholic drinks, we thought that we could give people ideas and recipes of cocktails, and also to create videos about how to prepare those cocktails.But I am not sure about this strategy, specially about the video generation, cause as the products are alcoholic beverages, I am not sure about the policies of Youtube about that kind of issues. I tried to search on the Web and find nothing.

This kind of content is for adults only? If so, should we create it anyway? Is it worth it?

What kind of strategies will you apply to gain visibility for an store like this?

I will apreciatte your comments and advices.

Thank you!

Thanks for your anwsers! 
I see that you both agree with the Image Networks strategy. I thought that we should have a separete account for Facebook. Now, I am not sure...

What about Google Plus?

Someone can give us more opinions about Facebook?

Hi!

we have a client that wants to begin doing business in Italy and France. As they don't sell directly to final customer, they need to generate brand awareness first in those market.

We are thinking of a content marketing strategy. As they are a furniture company and they create a very nice product, we think we can work a lot with pictures and articles. We think that Pinterest, Picassa and flickair will all be very important for the strategy.

For sure, we know they should create a Facebook Account for each country, but what happens with twitter, pinterest, flickair, youtube ...?  Should they also create an account for each country? They are not a very big company, and I am not sure about if they would be able to generate enough content for each account if they have an account per country.

What do you think? One account per country or can we avoid that for some social networks?

Thank you!

Thanks again Tom!

Hi,

I have a client that has several external blogs

www.blogsite1.info

www.blogsite2.info

and he also has the www.companywebsite.com

the main domain of course is the comapnywebsite.com. They are doing some thing wrong, because instead of generating contents inside the main domain, the create contents in the blogsites and send links to the blogsites to see those contents. So they are inviting their users to EXIT the website...

So, I told him, If you want to generate contents, please keep a blog INSIDE your domain www.companywebsite.com/blog, but keep the other ones, cause they are generating links (they are .info domains, that is not good, but they are nice keyword match domains)

Now, he told me he was thinking on copy and paste the contents from the external blogsites to the internal website. I warned him about generating duplicate content.

But.... is it really a problem? They are not in the same domain... Could google give a penalty because of that to the main domain?

Thanks!