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And in terms of my OpenSiteExplorer rankings, I'm beating my competitors (off of which rank much higher than me) in virtually every measurement...yet I'm nonexistent on Google.

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At one point in time, I was ranked on the top ten page for Google for my specific keywords. At the time, I had gotten greedy, and decided that instead of ranking around 8, I wanted to rank in the top three. I had hired someone to manage my SEO, and they used blackhat tactics, by spreading backlinks to hundreds of sites that didn't necessarily pertain to my websites focus.

Since then, Google has ignored me considerably, and I've spent the better part of the last 18 months cleaning up those ugly backlinks. I've tried disavow, which Google has ignored for the last 120 days or so, but was also able to get many of them manually removed. For the past couple months now, I've had a significant drop in the spammy and untrusted backlinks, and have gotten my website incredibly optimized for SEO tactics in my local market.

However, Google has still managed to dock my rankings for my most common keywords, which leads me to believe that they have a penality set up on my website that isn't being shown in Google Webmaster Tools.

I have verified my website in Google webmaster Tools.

And while my website is verified, there are no notifications from Google to suggest that my website is blacklisted for any reason whatsoever. My website gets crawled every day or two, and while I rank very high on Bing and Yahoo for my keywords, I'm entirely ignored in SERP rankings for Google.

I recently purchases Moz pro, hoping to find out why my website isn't ranking on specific keywords. I'm done analytics on myself and my competition and it seems that I rank better than them on 95% of the categories (using OpenSiteExplorer and keyword research tools). So I purchases Moz Pro hoping I'd find the glaring error in my ways.

I found a few small issues I was having, and have dealt with them. Overall however, they were small issues, and have led me to believe Google as a penalty in place for my website (SEO friend have also suspected this). In my Google Webmaster tools, nothing is marked under Manual Actions.

So does anyone have a way to contact Google and have them directly look at my website to insure there is no errors in their system?

I'm trying to get Moz local to recognize my csv file, and its not seeming to do so. I've tried using Google Spreadsheets, OpenOffice Calc, and have even used a Moz Local generator in Google Docs. I've tried this a dozen times now, and none of them seem to work, and leave me with the error --

We did not recognize the file type you uploaded.

Please make sure the file you upload is in CSV (Comma Delimited) format. You may need to re-save or export the spreadsheet as a CSV. Please note that the column headers are required, and must not be changed.

Feel free to use our template to fill out your listing info.