Three easy and PROVEN ways of recovering from drops in ranking - Post Panda

[Matt Broody]

Good post, Mike
I can also suggest to use Webmaster Tools to get ideas what is wrong with your site right now( crawl errors, etc )

[GoGetta]

Originally Posted by mrtrance

What sort of percentage should we use our main keyword as anchor text for that page we are ranking and what percent should it be varied? Say if I'm trying to rank a page for "dog training tips" should we build like 75% of the links using anchor text of "dog training tips" and the other 25% a mixture of "dog training", "training tips", "dog tips" or do we need to add on an extra keyword to our main keyword like "dog training tips guide", "dog training tips info" etc. to at least have our main keyword in each one of the anchor text?

Any thoughts on this?

Yep FrediDoo answered this!

Don't overthink specific percentages. I aim for about 50% main keyword and then I completely randomize other anchor texts. In some cases I don't even use keywords for anchor text, and use "Click Here", or some other variations.

After all, this is what would happen if you were linked too naturally.

GoGetta

[Ben S]

Hah... "ethical seo".. thats an oxymoron if ever I've heard one.

My main money earning sites got hit and they are just starting to come back.

One particular site is almost back to pre Oct 14th levels but the traffic is mainly low converting very long tail keywords as opposed to the 2-3 word keywords I was ranking for initially.

I think out of the 3 things you mention Mike maybe only number 2 was an issue for me. I was a member of BMR way back but had to drop it due to financial constraints and I may have succumb to lower cost low-pr, spun article networks.

Anyway something has to change now..

Also, does anyone believe outbound affiliate links make a huge difference to rankings?

Thanks so much for your post anyway Mike.

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by mrtrance

If I am trying to get high PR blog comments should I try to find pages with a certain amount of OBL say under 50, 25, 100? How about if the page is a .edu page with like 50 OBL with PR4, but nofollow? If getting high PR links whether edu/gov or any other type should they only be dofollow to give an impact or will nofollow also work?

In everything I have seen Nofollow has limited value. There may be an exception for some high profile sites like Wikipedia where there is some other factors besides pagerank. A .gov or and .edu link I would take for traffic and perhaps a similar effect.

Under 50 is not bad for blog comments. I cannot tell you how it would work for Panda recovery because I only used incontext links (in post) and less than 20 for the recoveries I did for a few people.

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by Matt Broody

Good post, Mike
I can also suggest to use Webmaster Tools to get ideas what is wrong with your site right now( crawl errors, etc )

Hey Matt missed your post before. I don't use Webmaster tools as much anymore (on my sites plenty clients still use it). Kind of got paranoid about what I think GOogle uses some of the data for. Use seomoz mostly but its paid (with some pretty nice tools for SEO professionals) that I don't think most here would want to bother with.