Are good backlinks the main thing my site needs now?

Rather than spending a lot of time removing old links just buy another domain and ove yor site over. If you want to keep your brand as the domain name then get the .org or .net and redirect your current domain to the new url.

Once you do that you can start your seo again if you want to but you will get more traffic for less hassle from a youtube video.

If he redirects the old domain to new one, won't it pass the same link juice/profile to the new domain? Just asking. Would love hear if anybody answers.

Our unique traffic didn't increase further during the early months this year. The worst part was that traffic was slipping too. We strongly believed that we've been hit.

What we did was to stop all backlinking activities for some time and collected all of our backlinks with the use of a paid tool and the webmaster's tool. I have been auditing our links since august this year. I took out spam and low quality links that were built. And then I submitted those links to the disavow tool. I continued to audit more of the backlinks and updated the submission list from time to time.

By the end of September, we checked our traffic. Slipping stopped and we had a bit of an increase. Traffic continued to increase the following months up to this day.

When I started the audit, I slowly went back to building backlinks - mostly white hat. We stopped using SEO services and the like. Worst, I discovered they were putting our links to private, low quality, un-updated blogs and sites. So, I guess that was a good thing as well. Also, we focused on writing sensible posts that we thought would interest the readers. We still targeted keywords, but we don't let them control how we write the article - like the key density and stuffs. Articles were basically written naturally for the readers and not the search engine.

The hard work is paying off so far. We can only hope for the best.

May I ask: How bad is your site hit? And have you conducted/re-evaluated your on-page? I think you should first re-analyze your on page then have a checklist of the changes that Google released with regards to on-page optimization.

Cleaning your links is a painful process but if you think that your site can still be saved (like the damage is not that bad), then I suggest you just choose this long process and then just pass a disavow letter to Google that you are cleaning your links and doing everything to make your website better.

It would help if you constantly check your google webmaster tool for any error/warnings and fix those asap. Then re-plan your SEO efforts and make sure that you replace your low quality or unnatural links with high PR, authority links.

I am sorry to hear that but yes having too many inactive links can also cause trouble and you've done just the right thing. Fix all errors on your site first then it'll also help if you can ping the new links or newly updated pages so Google can crawl them fast. Goodluck!

If your website is hit by penguin updates, first find all unnatural links and disavow it. Then do some work on your website, add fresh & unique content in website, edit the meta title and description of pages. Also write good quality articles, press release and submit it to high quality article and pr submission sites. But submit 1 article or press release to 1 article or pr submission sites.

If you have too many low quality links pointing to this domain, start with a new one. You should get it ranked in a couple of months IF you use the right links

quality backlinks are important part to increase your site traffic but content is also important use unique content in your website.

Get those directory links removed, good call. I got a penalty from directory submission from a rather large "mass produced" link company.

Build new quality links, and don't do lazy linkbuilding. What I mean is long gone are the days of directory submissions, duplicate articles, fiverr spam blasts and automated links.

Just be strategic in the links you build, paid links still work if you are smart about it but it's about quality not quantity. Diversify everything. Quality, type, attributes (nofollow/dfollow), and targets.

It's very difficult to recover a website if it was penalized by penguin update. I personally had a site that was penalized, and i wasted almost 3 months to recover but nothing happened. In the end, i developed the site on new domain and it's been ranking fine.

Don't think what you have done in past. Now you should focus on your website's content. Use unique content for your website and hire a natural link building service provider.

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Thanks for the ideas! We are going to try to disavow all bad links this month and see if it can help.

I've been told a domain that has been around a while can have more credibility then a brand one and we like our brand and domain name so this month will be seeing if disavowing all the bad links can help.

I guess it looks like Google is going towards a way that is more about social media and people posting your content rather than just putting links everywhere.


It does seem kind of confusing getting good back links though but I'll look through these ideas and try to implement them for the site.


Some people on the Google webmaster forum also suggested google can see what you're up to and might notice if you move to a different domain so in that reason too - removing all the bad links might have a better effect, though it seems like it works different for some people, I feel like it's worth a shot.

That webmeup tool is great too! The thing is I'm not really a write - our site is an ecommerce store but even so I guess writing quality content on our niche is partly what it's about and we do that with our blog. I also find it hard to find blogs to guest post on but I've seen people suggest to search 'guest blog' and the type of niche it's in, etc. The game goes on!

This works for our videos...we write articles and put them on high end article dir like eza. The backlinks help us to actually rank our videos. You could try this on your website and see what happens.

You could start a new site but if you are still listed then there's no point in doing that. Remove all the dodgy links like you are doing and then focus on quality sites. Track down good quality sites with high PR that are in a similar niche/market and see if you can get links somehow.