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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th September 2017, 07:36 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 392
Posted By bcmwp
Re: After 301 Redirect, My Page Disappeared from SERPs

Thanks. I actually figured out how to add my Squarespace site to Webmaster Tools, so I submitted it from there. We'll see how it goes.

And the old version of my page is now back up in the index....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th September 2017, 10:29 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 392
Posted By bcmwp
Re: After 301 Redirect, My Page Disappeared from SERPs

Okay, that's helpful (and hopeful). Thanks. I'm assuming Google just found that my page wasn't there but for some reason hasn't indexed the new page (despite the 301). I was a little worried there...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th September 2017, 06:51 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 392
Posted By bcmwp
After 301 Redirect, My Page Disappeared from SERPs

I recently restructured my site, and moved several of my pages using 301 redirect.

However, one of my pages, the one that had the best backlink to it, has completely vanished from the SERPs. I...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th September 2017, 11:00 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 92
Posted By bcmwp
Where To Put My City?

I'm putting together a website for my brick-and-mortar business, and I'm trying to get a sense of where I should put my city, so the search engines know to direct local searchers to me. The city's...
Forum: Website Design 10th November 2015, 10:12 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 545
Posted By bcmwp
Free Privacy Policy Generator?

Is there a site or even a template that provides a genuinely free privacy policy generator? I've found a few, but I get to page three, and then they want me to pay.

I'm using Adwords to drive...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 5th August 2015, 01:55 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 597
Posted By bcmwp
Canadian CPA Network?

I'm looking to find a CPA advertising network. However, we are only offering our service in Canada (excluding Quebec and Nova Scotia).


Which CPA networks that are targeted like this? The...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 4th June 2015, 08:35 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 823
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Getting Started with CPA?

Yes, that's right.
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 3rd June 2015, 11:56 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 823
Posted By bcmwp
Getting Started with CPA?

I'm looking into finding a CPA network for referrals to an online counselling agency.

Any ideas on where should I get started? I'd like to set up something where I pay per paying client, for...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st September 2014, 07:12 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 947
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?

How about a 301 redirect for just that page somewhere into the ether (like to www.sadfhajdhauwehurasfuhaweufafauk.com (http://www.sadfhajdhauwehurasfuhaweufafauk.com))? How does Penguin (and SERPs)...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st September 2014, 06:30 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 947
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?

Yep, you're right. Just by doing that, I found over a hundred of them.

Okay, so what do I do? Link disavowal won't work because there are so many of these spam links out there that I can't...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st September 2014, 05:59 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 947
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?

The sites are clearly autogenerated. Someone's set up pages that are based on keywords, then they've created largely incoherent pages that include, among other things, two-sentence excerpts from...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st September 2014, 08:34 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 947
Posted By bcmwp
Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?

I'm having trouble with a few spammy sites that are autogenerating pages that include links. Unfortunately, one of the links they're using is to my website. So far, through trackbacks, I've been...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st September 2014, 06:46 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 231
Posted By bcmwp
Getting Link Spammed - What to Do?

Moved thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/showthread.php?p=9539638#post9539638
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th September 2013, 08:42 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 530
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Large Traffic Drop Sep 13th/14th - Any Ideas?

Very interesting. This is just my personal blog, not a commercial one, but I was wondering what explained the drop.

Fortunately, it sounds like this isn't a penalty, like Panda or Penguin. It's...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th September 2013, 09:43 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 530
Posted By bcmwp
Large Traffic Drop Sep 13th/14th - Any Ideas?

Hi everyone,

I have a blog that got hit with a large traffic drop on Sept 13th-14th. I've never done any backlinking or anything for it.

Was there some sort of update at that point? I'd like...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th May 2013, 07:32 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 434
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Starting a New Site in the Same Niche?

Yes, this site just runs off of Adsense, and even its Bing-Yahoo shadow is doing fairly well.

I don't want to pull anything over on Google here. I just wondered if they disapproved of this sort...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th May 2013, 06:23 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 839
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Something I don't understand as far as receiving Backlinks Naturally

Not really. I can write a good guest post in half an hour to an hour. If a site's going to be around for the long haul, it's a good investment, in my experience.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th May 2013, 05:38 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 839
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Something I don't understand as far as receiving Backlinks Naturally

I find guest posting works well for getting something off the ground.

Put up some content that people will actually link to, and then go do about 5-10 guest posts on solid, related blogs (not...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th May 2013, 05:26 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 434
Posted By bcmwp
Starting a New Site in the Same Niche?

I had a smallish site (~50 pages) get hit with panda and then penguin, and it was destroyed in Google. However, it's still making enough money with Yahoo and Bing to keep running.

It's got a very...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th May 2013, 07:13 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 701
Posted By bcmwp
Re: How Aggressive Does Panda Allow Us To Be Now?

Thank you for the suggestions. It sounds like what I'm suggesting is probably safe.

One specific question I still have, though, is whether or not ads inside the article content are especially...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th May 2013, 08:42 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 701
Posted By bcmwp
How Aggressive Does Panda Allow Us To Be Now?

I'm working on Adsense placement for my new site, and I'm wondering how aggressive Panda now allows us to be before penalizing us. My current plan is to put one 250x250 ad in the top left of my...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd April 2013, 07:32 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 323
Posted By bcmwp
Panda and Ad Placement

Hi everyone,

I started a new site, and I put my ads on my sidebar. After getting a horrible ctr, I thought I should move them.

However, I'm worried about Panda, and how it affects ads. My...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th March 2013, 08:43 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 419
Posted By bcmwp
What Happens If I Nuke and Restart My Site?

I'm planning to restart my site on a new domain, since it's not recovering from Penguin.

Here's my plan:

1. Use robots.txt to block search engines.
2. Use the url remover tool to wipe the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th March 2013, 12:09 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 577
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Wanting To Restart Website After Penguin Penalty - Advice Please

Thank you for the suggestions. You mentioned putting it on a new Google account, though I'd rather not do that, since my Adsense account is attached to it.

Did Penguin punish whole Google...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th March 2013, 10:56 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 577
Posted By bcmwp
Wanting To Restart Website After Penguin Penalty - Advice Please

Hi everyone,

I have a website that got hit by Penguin last year, probably because of some press releases that got put on splogs without my knowledge (grr...). I had the releases taken down, but...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th June 2012, 01:11 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 503
Posted By bcmwp
Any Idea Why I Have 1000+ Links From One scoop.it Share?

I'm in the process of cleaning up my backlink profile (which is going surprisingly well, all things considered).

However, I have one mystery. One of my articles has 1,324 links listed in...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th May 2012, 12:41 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 530
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Has Anyone Had a Site Partially Hit by Penguin?

Has anyone else found that a site has been partially hit? From what I've read elsewhere, spam link penalties are site wide. Does this mean that those of us with partially hit sites are ultimately...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th May 2012, 10:49 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 852
Posted By bcmwp
Adsense on Noindex Pages?

I'd like to noindex a couple of my pages that have backlink issues to hopefully stem some of the Penguin infection that hit my site.

However, I have ads on those pages. Is this allowed according...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th May 2012, 04:23 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 530
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Has Anyone Had a Site Partially Hit by Penguin?

Thanks. I was wondering about that. How do I go about deindexing my image pages? Wordpress generates them automatically.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th May 2012, 03:44 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 530
Posted By bcmwp
Has Anyone Had a Site Partially Hit by Penguin?

I have a large blog with about 200 posts that has been hit by penguin. What's weird is that only half the site seems to have been hit. Some pages rank exactly as they used to, while others rank...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd May 2012, 10:15 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 496
Posted By bcmwp
Re: penguin - how will it handle BLs as they age

That's quite interesting. I've noticed, too, that the penalty does not seem to be site-wide. Only some of my pages were hit. I had four press releases, which seem to have been the problem, so I've...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st May 2012, 09:17 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 649
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery

Okay, I've disabled my internal linking and related post plugins, as well as deleted the pages and any links to them. Hopefully, this will stem the infection. In a month or so, I'll put my related...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st May 2012, 08:47 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 649
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery

Yes, they are. Actually, that's one of the things that makes me doubt this will work. I inherited the url from someone else a year ago, and that person's links still appear on webmaster tools, even...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st May 2012, 08:05 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 638
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Penguin Theory: Page specific penalties passing to sub pages.

Sorry, I think I misunderstood something. Are you saying the pages that link to the penalized pages are being penalized, or that the pages that the penalized pages link to are being penalized?
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st May 2012, 07:59 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 649
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery

Thanks for the suggestion. I went back and purged all of the articles of any of the terms mentioned in the anchor links. This, of course, meant rewriting the titles.

The problem is the urls,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th April 2012, 06:42 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 649
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery

That's a great idea :). Thank you.

About 75% of my links come from those press releases, so I think they're the problem, even though I only did four of them.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th April 2012, 06:20 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 649
Posted By bcmwp
Idea for Penguin Recovery

I'm pretty sure what's hurt me with penguin is the four press releases that I put out. They're pretty typical in that they have a few keywords as anchor text in the middle of the release, which may...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th April 2012, 06:14 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 3,785
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Best Place To Sell Domain Names?

Well, I'm not selling completed websites. Thanks for the bump, though.

Thanks to everyone else for your help.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th April 2012, 01:56 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 3,785
Posted By bcmwp
Best Place To Sell Domain Names?

I'm doing a bit of a housecleaning on domains I never really built out. What is the best site available for selling my old domain names? I'm not interested in selling the sites, just the domains.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th April 2012, 05:48 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 854
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Panda Schmanda, Penguin Schmenguin. Let's get POSITIVE!!!

I'm inclined to agree. After my sites got hit in October, I was devastated, because I didn't know what to do. This time, I just kind of shrugged and thought, "Well, how do I do all of this without...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th April 2012, 05:21 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 611
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Are penguin penalties permanent or fluid?

Because it's an algorithmic penalty, rather than a penalty "flag" on your site, it will presumably correct itself if you can appease the algorithm.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th April 2012, 08:39 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,440
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Guest posting sites.

I don't use guest posting sites. I'd rather just find the sites that are very popular in my area and contact the webmasters directly. I just enter the following into Google:

"keyword" guest
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th April 2012, 08:22 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 699
Posted By bcmwp
Re: What to do to restore lost rankings ?

If you have access to your bad backlinks, go and delete them, or at least as many as possible. Also check your page for excessive internal linking. I disabled my internal linking plugin.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 09:40 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 425
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Could Changing My Headers Mess Up My SERPs?

Well, the pages are exactly the same. The only difference is that I would have changed my post titles from an h2 to an h1, and the blog title, which was the old h1, became nothing.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 08:00 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 425
Posted By bcmwp
Could Changing My Headers Mess Up My SERPs?

Earlier this week, I changed my headers on my website using these instructions:

Fixing the Artisteer H1 Header Tag - Webhosting How-To'sAll Things Website Hosting...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 02:44 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 3,365
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Penguin Is Fully Live - Confirmed By Google

Well, fully rolled out doesn't necessarily mean that the dancing is over, just that the changes are live on every one of their servers. I've had one page of my site nuked by a single scoop.it link...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 09:32 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 616
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update

I'm not sure how many websites have the anchor text of my title. I'd assume anyone who carried my press release.

Sorry, I don't want to comment about who is was, just that it was a paid and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 08:48 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 616
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update

Nope. I used my targeted keywords once in each press release, and then the title and url.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 08:02 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 616
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update

Well, it's just a hypothesis :). Still, it's weird.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 07:53 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 616
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update

I'd rather not say, since I don't want to publicly damage anyone's reputation. What I will say, though, is that it was a paid service, not one of the free ones.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 07:48 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 616
Posted By bcmwp
Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update

I was checking out my website today in the search engines, and I noticed something very interesting. I've done very little backlinking on this website, but I did put out four press releases.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th April 2012, 05:09 PM
Replies: 526
Views: 28,376
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Google algo change today?

There seems to be some weirdness with this update.

For instance, I have a page, where I have a subpage on rentals. So, my main page is "keywords" and my subpage is "keywords rentals". What...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th April 2012, 09:19 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 317
Posted By bcmwp
Image Pages on Wordpress?

On my Wordpress blog, every image that I have has its own page, so that when you click on the image, it takes you to that page, not simply to the image.

I have two questions about this:

1) Is...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th October 2011, 08:19 AM
Replies: 675
Views: 42,639
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Anybody noticed Changes in Google SERP

Steve,

I had the exact same experience. My four biggest earning sites were all hit hard, and three of them had very little in common (two of them were fairly similar). One was a squeaky-white...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th October 2011, 10:44 PM
Replies: 675
Views: 42,639
Posted By bcmwp
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th October 2011, 04:43 PM
Replies: 675
Views: 42,639
Posted By bcmwp
Re: Anybody noticed Changes in Google SERP

I've noticed a large change as well, and so far today, I have about 1/3 the visits I normally have for a Friday (it's 6:42).

I googled my sites for their main keywords, and found they went from...
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