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A backlink service based on a Wordpress template? Is this a backlink network where members are required to have links in the footer/blog roll/some widget with shuffling backlinks?

Article marketing and blog commenting still work, as long as you narrow down your list of submission sites and blogs to those not branded by Google as part of the "bad neighborhood." For article directories, look for PR and the amount of articles they already have. Maybe do a spot check. If 8 out of 10 links you click on have poorly spun garbage content, move on. For blog comments, PR + low outbound links.

Then there's SENuke X.

As for text-anchor, you can just look at link profiles of the top 10 results for any keyword and you'll see that quantity doesn't always win. Aside from on-page and domain age factors, the anchor text used in backlinks pointing to those sites make a huge difference.

I don't know where you heard that, but I personally haven't done any testing pertaining to the value of .org domains. I find no reason to believe .org links should be given any special treatment either.

Matt Cutts tends to mislead more than to inform, but I believe he was being honest when he said .edu links don't weigh much more than .com links. The premise behind the whole thing is silly anyway - Google gives more weight to .edu links because .edu domains are difficult to acquire? Does that mean one backlink on an extremely expensive .brand TLD (.canon, for one) will be worth several hundred links?

Besides, those .edu links sellers spam on pages with hundreds of outbound links already. Remember that high OBL is always bad.

For local domains, backlinks from local IPs and domains are great, but not necessary. If you're looking at a general strategy, you'll want to add Google Places listings which can be boosted by business listings, citations, and reviews.

What types of links are you getting? You could buy a thousand of those cheap .edu links on Fiver but still not break into the top 100 for that highly competitive keyword.

Add an additional keyword. The term "Web Design Company" says NOTHING. Someone who types this is isn't searching for anything specific enough to merit the work getting the result.

Now "buy web design service" or something like that might be worth targeting. Like the SEO expert guy said, you'll need a lot of firepower to gain a major keyword phrase in web design. You'd be better off targeting an exact match phrase that shows intent to buy, IMHO.

This will sound cliche, but you just need original high quality content, really. As long as your content is original, offers value to readers, and has keywords peppered in at 2-5% density, you're good to go.

Panda has a lot to do with duplicate content and links from bad link farms, remember?

I've been into Buddhism before I knew about SEO, so let me answer this one with a koan:

Mu!

To find out who you really are not who you think you are! Regards.

Google doesn't crawl Google Docs, so no. The only time I ever see links from Google Docs/e-mail in tracking software is when there is incoming traffic from those links, i.e. someone clicked on them.

I do believe that government websites certainly have authority. That's why .gov and .mil links are regarded as valuable.

Got a question. Why the file robots.txt is available in search for a general public by domainname/robots.txt search? I mean it is in google.com index in ommited results. Thanks in advance.

Definitely. One of my clients was an arms dealer, and we zoomed past .mil sites that stood across our way to the front page of Google for several keywords.

Sounds like the Google dance "phenomenon" to me. How is your on-page like? If both home page and that other landing page are optimized for the same keyword, you'll experience Google dance while Google decides where to put your pages in its ranking.

Not to mention, new websites tend to have really unstable rankings.

There are so many questions in that thread and I think you already got your answers.

Anyway, yes, it's still possible to rank for micro sites with very little competition. I'm not fond of having less than 300 words of text, though. Possible to rank for, but you have to think of the overall user experience as well. Have you seen all those high converting squeeze pages?

Yes, they have way more than 300 words and the customers love it!

Link buying? Frowned upon by Google, but hey, it works. You could try private blog networks as well.

What do you mean? It seems you're already on the right track. Build backlinks to your backlinks, yes. You can check out Warriors for Hire. They have some really good link wheels in there.

Again, SENuke X.

Of course, IP diversity is always a good thing. It's always better when more unique IPs are pointing to your domain, no matter what the kind of source. It makes your link profile look more natural to Google.

Those major websites have high authority and tons of backlinks, and that's why they rank so well.

As for duplicate content, the rules for that have always been sketchy. I do believe Google has a certain threshold, and when the number of "duplicate" or even "very similar" pages reach that threshold, subsequent pages will be omitted in the regular search results.

We can see this theory of mine manifest in affiliate sites. Depending on the number of times a sales letter has been duplicated/spun, you may or may not end up in the omitted results for doing the same.

Are you promoting those websites? Are they ranking for specific KWs that bring traffic?

Have fun waiting 1 year to rank...

It's human nature. People always want the easy way out. Easy way to get rich, easy way to lose weight, easy way to get to the front page of Google, etc.

The companies you are talking about probably have established brands that get linked to with less effort, anyway.

This is the funniest thing I've read all day!!! -_-

Port of Spain is the capital of Trinidad.

There is more than one Trinidad.
Please be more specific.

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Serious SEO question:

Is it possible (or does anyone know how) to remove spam profile and spam forum links pointing to a site?

We hired someone to "build backlinks," and they spam-linked thousands of really ugly foreign (non-U.S.) profile links and forum links to our site.

Consequently, our aged authority site dropped from Google Page One, #4, #5 to #13, #14 on our primary keyword, and similarly on secondary keywords.

Thanks.

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SEO is like crack. Your website gets addicted to it, and when it doesn't get any, it's going down. There are factors that help against depreciation, though, such as domain age and authority. I suggest reinforcing your domain first so you can worry less.

No, but you can hear the webmaster whimpering from 10,000 miles away when he finds out.

Sure. It will make a gigantic sound. For an example just few days ago one morning I saw one of my moneypages got out itself from first page that was on there for almost 7 months. Then I said AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Proved.

Now a days , Who doesn't claim to be an "SEO Export" Every Joe Bloggs does. He's not even a War Room Member , I'm calling Bull****.

I can't think of a reason why too little or too much of PR6 backlinks can be bad. Some will help, a lot will help greatly, but I don't think Google is particularly on the hunt for specific numbers of PR6 backlinks pointing to one page/domain.

It depends upon the value of each of the pages those links are on and reputation of the sites.

Would you rather have 15,000 backlinks from 50 domains like Wikipedia, CNN Interactive, The Huffington Post, NASA, etc..?

Or would you rather have 15000 links from 5000 hot off the press Blogger, Squidoo, and Wordpress.com sites?

In other words, your question has no real answer without addressing the quality of the links.

I can answer this for you because it should be obvious if you followed the last months on any webmaster/seo forum.

1.) Good quality content
2.) Good quality content
3.) Good quality content

4.) Good site navigation + User experience, providing value and making a GOOD site in regards to a topic. The "harder" the keyword to rank, the more you have to try to establish an authority site.
5.) Link building as usual, with a BIG focus again on quality context links, quality articles etc., blog networks are USUALLY good. No garbage links like blog comments or profiles.
6.) Additional boosting of your site and the links themselves by creating "social buzz"...this is, after panda LIKELY increased influence of social sites links like twitter, facebook and so forth.
7.) Keep this diverse and steady, avoid all the garbage links, bad neighborhoods, PR0 "article sites" which 9 zillion of spun articles...blogs with 9 million vi@gra links on it.

If the above is all right, that is, if you have indeed a good site giving the visitor what they are looking for PLUS halfway reasonable link building etc. you can ALMOST rank anything. If you think it needs a boost and you are stuck...probably more "social buzz" and more social marketing to give it an additional boost.

Sleeping with a Google engineer.