I would look at who is linking to you, that could be hurting you as well. It looks like you have a ton of directory links and this could be seen as unnatural by Google.
Posts made by TheeDigital
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RE: Where Do I Start?
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RE: Google.com
The site and content might be unique, but do you know where the links were if any that you received? That's my first thought. If you have a link portfolio that might be the best thing to look at and see what happened to the sites that were linking too you.
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RE: Suggested Link Builder and Brief
James,
It sounds like you're looking for an unnatural black hat strategy. As mentioned by the other people who answered the question I would suggest maybe putting that money in a content strategy. Remember that when it comes to black SEO, it might seem cheap and easy to get links, but if you want something to last for awhile content creation that's evergreen is the way to go.
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RE: How to pick the right keywords for backlink building in a Huge site
The number one goal is you want to come off as natural in your link building efforts after Panda, so I would suggest a mix between the two. This will come off as "natural link building" which google likes to see.
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RE: Google Local
Joel,
It's also important to point out that you should use the same Google account that's associated with your Google+ page. This way the two can be paired together.
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RE: Dentist office website has foreign country backlinks. Scrap it or Move On
I agree with Joseph and Robert, in saying that the title of your company sounds a bit spammy to begin with. Maybe it's best if you use something along the lines of "ChicagoDentist.com" or even "ChicagoCosmeticDentistry.com" these allow you to use a keyword and sound more relavent to your audience.
I would also suggest starting fresh and making an update to work on "local signals" such as Merchant Circle, Google Local, LocalEze. These signals will help the page crawl up in local search and also allow other customers to review the company, which we all know in this day and age is a good thing.
As others have mentioned you do have the option of using a disavoy tool, but only Bing has such a tool right now and Bing only accounts for 38% of the search market, so you're going to be missing out on the other 70% and there's no way telling when Google will come out with such a tool.
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RE: Massive drop off in my google rank. Why?
I agree with everything that Malcolm said. Remember that Google has released massive updates so far in 2012 in Panda/Penguin that are designed to devalue some links, that us web-owners had previously gotten.
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RE: Ecommerce SEO - product sort order
Tom,
I would say it's not bad for SEO, however it might be bad for your customers. What's the reasoning for the random order? Was it A/B tested? Etc.
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RE: Ecommerce SEO - product sort order
Tom,
I would say it's not bad for SEO, however it might be bad for your customers. What's the reasoning for the random order? Was it A/B tested? Etc.
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RE: Article Submission Old Hat or Still Good hat?
I agree with Russ and Agents, it's an old hat trick and there's always the opportunity that Google could take a swing at you and claim you're over optimizing your website.
If you're producing good content, I would say maybe you should reach out and do some guest blogging.
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RE: Low Domain Authority - Rank Well For Competitive Keywords
The first thing that comes to mind, is how are you looking at the SERPS. You're not logged in are you? Clicking on a link while you're into your Google account will change the placing of it, as Google is always trying to recommend/localize your results. The best way to view the SERPs is in Incognito mode though that often doesn't always work.
If you are viewing the Competitor in Incognito and have seem him climb up, I would wonder if the links that he has passed have been affected by Panda or Penguin.
Yeah, I would also agree with AK, and take a look at the on-page optimization of the competitor. Has their on page optimization or content changed any?
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RE: High Bounce Rate on this Specific Page
Yes, I meant the left. Sorry about that.
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RE: High Bounce Rate on this Specific Page
William and Shift already left great responses, but i want to add that the average human being looks from the top left to the bottom right, in saying that you might want to take a look at your design. Naturally our eyes want to follow the blue and ignore the the right sidebar while your call to action is.
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RE: Start over or try to recover?
I agree with Marcus, it depends on what kind of links your website does have. It generally sounds like to me, that you over optimized your website.
If you do have plenty of good links, it would simply be an issue of getting rid of the "crappy links" however if you do have a ton of these now non-indexed links, it might be best to start with a new page. -
RE: Has anyone had problems with thier google maps page after the google plus intergration?
Yeah, I think in the last month there have been tons of problems going on with Google Local pages.
Previously people had just been creating + pages for their companies and now with the Places page turning into + pages, a lot of companies now have multiple + pages showing up on their website. This is hurting both Google+ and the new local pages.
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RE: Google Plus for clients
Google+ now allows you to set-up multiple admins, so that might help your main issue of who should set up the account.
Saying that though, since you're dealing with local businesses, I would suggest that you use the login info/password that they used when they created their Google places page(now google local) if that's applicable. That will allow you to go continue without going through the headache of having to contact Google and claim the place. If you do use this login/password, you will be able to create a personal account for the client which they then can use to share the businesses' page updates and links.
Basically, you can now use this personal page to help promote the business. For instance John is the owner of pizza King, he can not only share Pizza King's page info but +1 it on occasion and also add value to the conversation going on, within Pizza King's page.
Using John's page will also allow you to +1 and share the information in case you're worried about it being associated with you(the marketer).For easy access, you can also set up your Google+ page as an admin, to the business page for quick updating and messages.
I hope that helps.
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RE: For a new business which would be the best domain name?
It's showing up as available to me as well. I agree with Ryan if you're interested in buying it, now is the time to do so.
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RE: Mutliple language website with same keyword for different language
You might add "in English" or "en Espanol" to the end of your title to avoid duplicates.
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RE: Page Titles where URL customization is limited
I agree with you, mod_rewrite should help.
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RE: Link Product Thumb & Product Name with same anchor link?
Ted, why don't you add pagination to your product pages?
You might list 10 items on a page and link the thumbnail image and product title to the item details page without any issues.
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RE: What are your biggest focuses for Internet Marketing in 2012? New Year's Goal?
We have a list we've been working on but here are our top 3:
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Participate more in this community
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streamline our processes for scaling link building prospects and outreach with citationlabs tools
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Schema implementation for local SEO clients
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