Need help guys and would be in your debt forever for your help.
I run a printing website that has 90% great on site SEO and unique content and is (most people would say this but this time it actually is true) one of the best sites in our field (printing).
Anyway our SEO used some blog networks and I was aware but did not think about it as I knew very little about SEO at the time (I followed his advice but did moan a few times at the quality of the articles).
We received a Google webmaster warning over links pointing to the site on the 24th march and on the 12th of April we were hit with a site wide drop but the drop can be as little as 1 places to as drastic as 2 pages.
I cannot work out if this is a penalty or a devaluation of links but the problem with declining is that one of our pages has some very good reviews from some high quality graphic design blogs and the page has 100% great content yet a few sites with very little links and low quality on site content outrank us now for this word which makes me feel that it is a penalty or the link value is being taken away at a factor of x2 per bad link.
My SEO guy says that he did not expect this as the Google analytic data they have about the site shows only a 20% bounce and high conversion rate which would work in our favour also the site is well built and defiantly not a spam site.
Attached is a list of all the links to our site 1000 (PDF and .txt file) if anyone could tell me if they think any of them could be hurting our site and which ones I would really appreciate it I would also be happy to pay the person that submits to me the best report (help) £250 by PayPal as I really want to get this sorted.
Also what the best course of action would be, I also don’t understand how a lot of our competitors are still ranking yet only have spam links that I thought Google would also be targeting.
Thank you for your time.
Anyway our SEO used some blog networks and I was aware but did not think about it as I knew very little about SEO at the time (I followed his advice but did moan a few times at the quality of the articles).
We received a Google webmaster warning over links pointing to the site on the 24th march and on the 12th of April we were hit with a site wide drop but the drop can be as little as 1 places to as drastic as 2 pages.
I cannot work out if this is a penalty or a devaluation of links but the problem with declining is that one of our pages has some very good reviews from some high quality graphic design blogs and the page has 100% great content yet a few sites with very little links and low quality on site content outrank us now for this word which makes me feel that it is a penalty or the link value is being taken away at a factor of x2 per bad link.
My SEO guy says that he did not expect this as the Google analytic data they have about the site shows only a 20% bounce and high conversion rate which would work in our favour also the site is well built and defiantly not a spam site.
Attached is a list of all the links to our site 1000 (PDF and .txt file) if anyone could tell me if they think any of them could be hurting our site and which ones I would really appreciate it I would also be happy to pay the person that submits to me the best report (help) £250 by PayPal as I really want to get this sorted.
Also what the best course of action would be, I also don’t understand how a lot of our competitors are still ranking yet only have spam links that I thought Google would also be targeting.
Thank you for your time.