Would Google see these links at the end of my blog as spam?

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Please excuse me, but my terminology with certain things is off. I believe I'm referring to anchor links (internal linking).

I have a site where I sell a downloadable e-book with sex advice. It's not typical cheesy scam products, and I've received great feedback on it. It works. I've done pretty well in the past, but have experienced a slow drop in visits and sales since Panda/Penguin, until now-a-days... now it's just in critical condition.

I have a main site, for instance www.mainsite.com, and then a wordpress blog attached to it, for instance www.mainsite.com/blog. Each blog post generates it's own individual url as well, with the blog title in the name.

At the end of each blog posting, I lead to the corresponding page on my main site (I cover about 5 main topics = lasting longer, overcoming ED naturally, boosting drive, etc.).

The end of my blog post will look something like this (the bold part is the link to the corresponding sales page, but I don't put it in bold):

For more more ways to naturally increase sex drive, click here: [B]Natural Ways To Boost Libido in Men/B]

Something like that. The rest of the blog isn't so packed with keywords. The content is always unique (to the best of my abilities) and offers some practical advice (and honestly, I worry more about the message than packing it with keywords).

Here's the thing, I have written personally over 1,000 blog posts. If I have to go back in there and change it somehow, it will be a MISSION. Do you think it's fine as is and can leave it alone? Or can be seen as spam?

And if so, how should I change? Thanks

P.S. reason I'm asking is because I was recently hit with a manual spam action for violating "quality guidelines"
#blog #end #google #links #spam
  • Profile picture of the author AzzamS
    Originally Posted by David C. View Post

    Please excuse me, but my terminology with certain things is off. I believe I'm referring to anchor links (internal linking).

    I have a site where I sell a downloadable e-book with sex advice. It's not typical cheesy scam products, and I've received great feedback on it. It works. I've done pretty well in the past, but have experienced a slow drop in visits and sales since Panda/Penguin, until now-a-days... now it's just in critical condition.

    I have a main site, for instance www.mainsite.com, and then a wordpress blog attached to it, for instance www.mainsite.com/blog. Each blog post generates it's own individual url as well, with the blog title in the name.

    At the end of each blog posting, I lead to the corresponding page on my main site (I cover about 5 main topics = lasting longer, overcoming ED naturally, boosting drive, etc.).

    The end of my blog post will look something like this (the bold part is the link to the corresponding sales page, but I don't put it in bold):

    For more more ways to naturally increase sex drive, click here: [B]Natural Ways To Boost Libido in Men/B]

    Something like that. The rest of the blog isn't so packed with keywords. The content is always unique (to the best of my abilities) and offers some practical advice (and honestly, I worry more about the message than packing it with keywords).

    Here's the thing, I have written personally over 1,000 blog posts. If I have to go back in there and change it somehow, it will be a MISSION. Do you think it's fine as is and can leave it alone? Or can be seen as spam?

    And if so, how should I change? Thanks

    P.S. reason I'm asking is because I was recently hit with a manual spam action for violating "quality guidelines"
    If you are linking back from a sub directory in the manner you describe I. E. Multiple words part of a sentence to create a link, then this would not be the cause of the manual penalty.

    In most cases the manual penalty is related to the link profile of the site.

    Download your link profile from Google Webmaster tool, evaluate them and start a link removal program. If you successful in removing links and disavowing those that you can not there is a most likelihood that the penalty will be uplifted.

    I have succeeded in get penalty removed for sites in this manner.
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  • Profile picture of the author mkgg
    Its actually a good thing you're interlinking. I don't think your content on site may have any reason for manual webspam. If that was the reason, all forums would punished as the rules thread is linked to a thousands over the course of years.

    I would investigate why your site was hit with a penalty and is it because of on-site or off-site seo instead of just assuming things.
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  • Profile picture of the author mkgg
    If you haven't done any link-building to your site yourself and are clueless, contacting google help will be helpful even.

    Also don't go on disavowing links on your own that you think are cause for penalty. If you aren't comfortable sharing your site url, ask for help from some of the senior members here and one of them might be willing to spend just 5 mins of his time to check out the link profile and see whats wrong.

    Stay away from buying any seo packages or WSOs for removing penalties, they may do more harm than good depending on who you end up with
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    • Profile picture of the author David C.
      Thanks MKGG for your continued help (you helped me with the Yahoo Answers question).

      Not implying you need it, but I'll provide you with a free copy of my guide if you were to look over my site, SEO wise. Don't know what else to offer lol... just PM me, and I'll give you my url
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Why would you disavow any links to your own stuff? Man has google got a winner
        with that disavow thingy! They just sit back and watch the fun.

        Any ebook on sex, or other spammed topic is just not going to fly in the
        long run. I can't imagine anyone paying for that, let alone relying on google
        in the first place for traffic. It's just a natural spiral downward. 1,000 blog
        post on probably the same thing, rehashed, will eventually look like a site
        full of doorway pages, duplicate content (in the real sense), and other such
        rot.

        Paul
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