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I have a website with 2000 nofollow links backlinks and about 20 follow links. It is currently ranking 11^th on Google. The websites that are outranking it have lower ranking stats and in some cases only 2 follow links.

Most of the nofollow links are blog comments, could this be what is dragging down my stats.

The only factor my website is worst on is the number of server requests per load, which is 194 as it is a theme.

Blog comments can be very difficult to remove; I created these several years ago before I knew too much about SEO. Most of them are on other websites in same niche.

Would I be best to ask website owners to delete my comments or restart on a new domain.

Thanks

Rob

Hello,

It is possible that your website has been hacked and someone has created additional pages, which link back to their money site.

Some of our clients websites occasionally get hacked with spammy link pages being added. If you google site:domain.com it should show you all the pages of your website that have been indexed by Google.

Rob

Hello,

There are no actions in GWMT, just wondering if this is something I should look to sort out to protect the business in the coming years.

Thanks for replying though.

Kind regards

Rob

Hello,

One of my website has quite a lot (~1000) nofollow blog comment links. Is it worth getting them removed if they are nofollow, could they be dragging the metric of my website down.

Does anyone have any experience of this? The site only has about 5 follow links, something seems to be dragging the domain metrics down.

Thanks

Rob

Hello,

Thank you for answering my question guys. I think it is a problem with a wordpress calender plugin, which is generating an large number of pages in the future, as follows,

calender/2014-12-28/

calender/2099-12-26/

Rob

Hello,

In the last week we have noticed an extremely large number of backlink links appearing in Google Webmaster Tools.

One of the sites which links to us now have over 101,000 backlinks pointing to us, when in reality it should only have 300-600. We have check the websites have not been hacked, with hidden links etc, but we can not find any.

Has anyone else experienced problems with Google webmaster tools lately, displaying way too many links?

Or could this be a negative SEO attack, which is yet to emerge.

Thanks

Rob

Hello Chris,

Thank you for replying to my question. It is a difficult one, I think as a company we will have to go with a safer long term strategy and see how it pans out. Maybe a PR stunt, instead of exact match backlinks.

Kind regards

Rob

Hello Malcom,

Thank you for replying to my question. In theory; I agree with this, producing high quality pages for the end user. However in reality for competitive niches, it does not matter how good your landing page is, it will not rank in a competitive niche. As all the competitors have such inflated exact match anchor text backlinks.

We will definitely look at improving our landing pages as a long term strategy.

Kind regards

Rob

Hello,

Neil Patel has written an in-depth article about it here,

http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/01/31/how-to-optimize-contact-forms-for-conversions/

Summary: Less form field = Higher conversion rates.

Maybe a good idea to split test the form over a 2 month period and check the results.

Rob

Hello,

I think changing the phone number could of caused the drop, if all the other NAP citations have different phone numbers on them.

It maybe worth Googling the old phone number and changing it where ever it is mentioned elsewhere online.

Rob

Hello,

Neil Patel has written an in-depth article about it here,

http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/01/31/how-to-optimize-contact-forms-for-conversions/

Summary: Less form field = Higher conversion rates.

Maybe a good idea to split test the form over a 2 month period and check the results.

Rob

Hello,

I think changing the phone number could of caused the drop, if all the other NAP citations have different phone numbers on them.

It maybe worth Googling the old phone number and changing it where ever it is mentioned elsewhere online.

Rob

Hello,

Thank you for answering my question guys. I think it is a problem with a wordpress calender plugin, which is generating an large number of pages in the future, as follows,

calender/2014-12-28/

calender/2099-12-26/

Rob