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Hi,

I have two similar websites hosted on the same hosting plan. However, they are on 2 different IP addresses. The last 3 digits differ.

Site A: 120.30.30.150

Site B: 120:30.30.151

The problem is that I have significant drops in rankings since the first site A linked to site B. The links were 2000 submitted all at once because of site A's structure. Later, I put no follow attribute in order to tell Google "please don't count those".

I keep doing link building for the second website from mostly articles and still see up and downturns which are too big (10-12 positions back).

Is it possible that somehow Google still considers links form the first site to the second site as excessive link exchange? I clearly cannot find any other logical reason for these drops. I don't do forum, blog comments spam, I regularly check webmaster tools for messages about unnatural links, I do article posting.

I will highly appreciate any opinion on the matter.

Thank you in advance Mozzers

I have one question regarding the data the Keyword Difficulty Report shows. How does it get updated? I mean how often, because for my website I can see a low number of Linking Root Domains, which does not correspond to the real number of domains linking to my website. Thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I am wondering if the exact match anchor text is 100% negative signal after the penguin. I mean even from relevant sites and natural use.

During the last 2 weeks I see negative SERP changes and I start to think that it is because exact match keyword anchor text is used. I also use some other anchor texts along with it all the time.. but now I think of using 100% exact match anchor free links.

Does anybody have similar observations?

Thank you in advance.

Thanks Andrea, that is already done, I use lots of different anchors and lots of different pages to link to.

I thought the same, but actually this keyword is even more relevant to the domain than the 1st keyword.

Both keywords are relevant to the page and to the domain as a whole BUT the keywords are not so closely relevant to each other.

Thanks for the advice, the strange thing is that the better performing word is on the second place in title. Also I have noticed a competitor which ranks well for 2 similar (also competitive) keywords and has 0 times the first word in body text!!! Just both keywords in title. This competitor has 3 times (on average) more linking domains and links than my site and is on the second page, while I am struggling between 14th and 17th..

Hi both keywords are highly competitive. The 1st keyword is 60% and the second is 69% (the second keyword is the one I am having problems with).

There are pages above my page in SERP for my second keyword with significantly lower links profile.

Hello folks,

I have a problem with optimizing a page for 2 different keywords. Here is the situation:

On-page: Both keywords in title; both words in body text (I didn't count them but approximately 3-4 times for 100 words in total)

Off-page: Exact anchor text from article directories, Synonym & Brand anchors from directories. My link building shcedule is as inconsistent as possible. I just keep around 50 links per week. I do social sharing, guest blogging with exact/synonym anchor text links and also I link to other pages across the whole site. I try to avoid site bar and footer links although I have some because it's partner links, I didn't buy them. I even asked web masters to put nofollow tag to those link after the drop because I was concerned that Penguin considers them bought links.

The result: 1st keyword is going quite well, it reached 5th postion but after that dropped to the second page, which more or less I can explain with various factors such as overal keyword competition, maybe penguin thought that some links are spammy.

The problem is that the second keyword is disaster. I found it in SERP after 1 month hard work on 17th page and now it is swinging between 14th and 17th page. Honestly, I am confused. Is it possible that link building with 2 keywords to the same page creates self canibalization of some kind?

Just to remind that the 2 keywords are quite different, i,e. there are not related as synonyms or similar. Do you guys have had similar problem?

Thanks in advance for your advice

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the ranking of exact match tld which is co.uk

Currently I have a .com domain with PR of 3 and the problem is that it have one word in front of my desired keyword, so it's not exact match. I have managed to buy an exact match but it's co.uk

The questions are:

1. Will a co.uk rank better for UK than .com domain

2. I am reading at SEOMOZ that exact match domain value is getting lower, so is it worth to redirect my current .com domain to co.uk just to get rid of that one word and start all over again with exact match.

Thanks

Yes, thanks a lot for the answer.

Hi all,

I added some links to my website, but because I want to track traffic and other things, all links were created with Google URL Builder and slightly customized.

So the end result looks like this:  http://www.example.com/example_home.asp?acs=986lfqa&utm_source=keyword.fr&utm_medium=RP&utm_content=example_Link&utm_campaign=General

All links are containing keyword as anchor text. And the question is if Google is smart enough to figure out that the anchor text is for  http://www.example.com and not for the whole /example_home.asp............

I'm afraid that it will see it as entirely different page and don't pass link value.

Thanks for the post. My goal was not to fool Google, but rather an alternative approach of link-building. Although I agree completely on what you wrote, it's a little bit harder to build incredible content that everyone would love to share as we see in all seo videos when you are writing on some strictly technical topic. I guess that just means that I will need to work harder to accomplish my goals, the results will come inevetably.

As I wrote on the post above yours, sadly not smart enough some times. Some of my competitors have ridiculously spammy links and are not banned. I can see this by OpenSiteExplorer.

I will continue to do the things strictly on the white side and will wait for the next panda to give some justice.

As I said, the blog from which my site will get links will contain only unique and highly informative text to guarantee that links I get from it are good. As black as it may be, I am seeing that my competition is doing directly the other thing, buying a sh*tty domains and linking directly from them. To avoid that I am doing the other thing, firstly creating a new blog and then when get some PR will start building some links. To this point all of my links are highly quality from partners, sites in my business area and articles in reputable directories. Sadly it's not enough, the competition is doing the "dirty" way, so I am just looking for the middle.

Anyway thanks for the post.

Hi all,

I just started working on the optimization of highly competitive keywords on one website. I already started posting articles in reputable directories, but as you know, more quality links are needed. To do that I created the following strategy: (see the uploaded image or http://i.imgur.com/9HCiM.png)

The idea is to buy new domain and build page rank to this domain by other 3,4 domains that I will buy with PR3. Those 3 domains will contain low quality text generated by spinner just to keep that PR. Then those 3 domains will give PR to the newly created website which will contain only professionally written information and sometimes will give links to me. At the end I will get high quality links.

I know it's hard work, but posting PR articles will not be enough. I will continue to spy the competition via SEOMoz OSE but for now that is the idea that I have for quality links.

Share your opinion

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Yes, I know that. I will make different links to look natural and variations of the desired keyword.

Hello world

I'm looking for good UK article websites that are allowing anchor text links. Something like Ezine Aticles ...

I found the SEOMoz 400top directories, but I'm searching for something that will give to me anchor text links. It doesn't matter if the directories have strict moderation, actually it's better, I'm not using spinner or anything similar.

Thanks.

Yeah, I think that way too. I am using my desired keyword in the sub-domain name, but I don't think it's giving me much credit.

Hi all.

I've purchased a domain name two years ago with the idea to offer wide range of services. I've also created a sub-domain providing specific service for highly competitive keyword. Sadly plans went wrong and I didn't use the root domain name at all, just the sub-domain providing that service. There aren't much links to that sub-domain, but all are quality links, until recently I've managed to keep positions between 5 and 7 without any effort, but yesterday I saw that it's dropped to 9.

The question is, before I start to build links and write articles to get back up my domain, is it worth to move that sub-domain to my original root domain. As I said, there aren't much links to that sub-domain, it only has pagerank1, also for the last year the original root domain was redirected (301) to the sub-domain to not loose traffic and I'm scared if I reverse this procedure and redirect my sub-domain to the root domain that Google will get confused.

It's a tricky question I know