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My Pretty Links Have Been Indexed...

by SiegerVinnare
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I make sure that everytime I make a pretty link that I check the box to nofollow and noindex the link yet a bunch of my links have now been indexed...Likely being the reason my site has dropped off of google.

What do I do? Any help would be much appreciated.
#indexed #links #pretty
  • Profile picture of the author Dragontech
    - Diversify your anchor text with generic terms like "click here", "this site", "yoururl.com", "your brand name" etc, you can use Get Spintax | Take a List of Keywords and Links and Convert to Spintax to spin them.

    - Make sure no more than 50% of them being the targeted anchor text

    - Get some relevant links from sites in the same niche (This plays a huge role since Penguin)

    - Be patient and your site will surely come back

    Hope this helps,
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    Google may be penalizing the use of a link cloaker, I don't know of the no index option prevents the link from being spidered, it's generally assumed that spiders only parer the html code and don't see redirect scripts, but t5her are reports of Google trying out javascript tracing.

    One post from another forum's thread

    "I have a few Amazon sites with the Pretty Link plugin (rewritten/shortened affiliate links and then redirected via 301) where when I type site:moneysite.com I do see that Google indexed moneysite.com/the-amazon-page-indexed like you explained above. A few sites seems penalized because of this.

    However, at the same time I have plenty of sites where I see the same thing i.e. moneysite.com/the-amazon-page-indexed but they all have #1 rankings.

    So I am now very confused. Does it mean Google sometimes penalizes when it shouldn't and sometimes not? If yes, what can be done please? Take out the affiliate links, built new links, wait for top rankings and then put the affiliate links again? Or something else easier than what you are doing now for non coders like me?"
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  • Profile picture of the author SiegerVinnare
    Thanks for the responses guys. I considered taking out the affiliate links but figured I would wait for a little bit first. Is it possible that maybe I use keywords too much in the anchor text and that's why I get penalized? It is all fairly confusing to me. I was solid at rank 6th on first page for 3 weeks and now my pretty link redirect pages actually rank higher then my site...I'm hoping it is just a temporary thing.

    Any other ideas on what to do would really help. Should I try and get the redirect links de-indexed?
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