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Deepsand - maybe it's just semantics. I have ( according to GWT ) 12,518 'Links to My site' - about 400 from WPW, 2,345 from my Blog and about a dozen from link exchanges I made with other music...

I'd agree with Weegillis' comment below. I never thought of the link in my sig here as a positive backlink ( glad to hear the consensus that it's also not a negative one! ). I place it there...

I've been seeing these kind of results from G for almost a year now. I've used Proxy Servers to test searches without any personalization, but while there are some differences in the SERPs, the...

Kudos on achieving 2nd spot for your targetted terms, and doing it by focussing on a two-pronged approach of (a) providing content people want and (b) assessing which search terms they use (...

Tubby,
Firstly thanks for taking time to check out my situation and reply!


I don't sell guitars. The site wasn't designed to make money, but to provide a resource to learning guitar players...

Tubby - I have long followed your advice and general take on the whole concept of creating sites which give users what they want. Which is what I've always tried to do. I created my own site in...

I think this is a great idea, Janeth. My own site is enmeshed with 14 years of 'tweaks' for the various best practices ( usually found here on WPW ) over those years, so a green field project which...

Isn't this typical of the (oxy)moron hoops Google is making everyone jump thru these days? Surely, the 'natural' link profile for a cars site, for organic, unsolicited links would have most links...

Janeth,

My own journey into Social Media was sponsored by a post by you some 6-7 years ago, where you declared your intention to boldly go into the unknown ( from webmasters point of view ) -...

Good point Snakeman. The OP here was about sudden drop in Google ranking, I joined this post because I'm in that position, but also asked if others had observed the ridiculous results that Google...

I seem to be turning into a major cynic - I read the "Good Luck" as being dismissive. Steve has contributed majorly to this discussion, and owes none of us anything, just thought that Greg had made...

Apologies Janeth and Greg. I did kinda elbow my way in there. But my main problem is the same as Greg's OP, and there were some very thought-provoking responses to my post from Steve, Coldfire, Doc...

Sorry to push this, but I would still like to hear from experts or forum users on here about their experience of the other side of this topic - the strange and (not so) wonderful results being...

Glad to hear that ColdFire, while I might be able to take some of the suggestions on board, and make the changes, moving to a new domain is something I just don't have the resources to do.



I'd...

Thanks again Steve, appreciate your honesty and thoroughness here.



Just requested the removal of what I'm pretty sure is the only sitewide links scenario, as recommended by Doc. I'm pretty...

Thanks Doc (and Steve). I am contacting the blogger with a request to use "rel=nofollow" immediately after the <a and before the HREF, hope this is right. Also requested that he delete the link...

All points noted and observed.

Just want to address, for reputational reasons, Steve's comment:

"Scraped content
http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/ww...K/BOJANGLE.TXT
Sitewide...

Steve, I really appreciate your response, and your highlighting of the areas to focus on. Not so appreciative of the 'spammy crappy affiliates' and the 'proper website' sideswipes... :) I can give...

Coldfire, I was only being slightly tongue-in-cheek there. I agree that it would be an extremely dodgy practice, but these occurences are so prevalent in my area, I wanted to ask if anyone else had...

Having survived 13 years of Google updates ( apart from a little trampolining during the good old 'Google Dance' days ), I have also been hit, on 29th September, with a major drop for almost all of...

MJ, I really don't think there is a very short word which describes the sites your client want's to promote. This might be a case where you leave this link out of top navigation, and place a nice...

I hope this is the right forum for my question.

I have subscribed to Google Adsense, and placed the code for the relevant Ad Unit ( medium, 4 links ) on all of my pages.

My website is a...

That's a really neat idea Steve, and I'm sure it would provide the required analytics. I would recommend that this be done for a very short period though. I've had occasion to use Meta Refresh in...

I reluctantly bought in to the Google+ thing, after reading information here about Google+ profiles being an aid to confirming authorship, having had a large number of Blog posts appropriated and...

Ok, I accept that William, but my points were (a) I believe Google are being disingenuous with the whole "oops, we've made an algo change, and, remember we said that we don't penalize dodgy links,...