Comments on: Guerrilla SEO: Can You Do It?

By: What To Do If You Have Bad Inbound Links

What To Do If You Have Bad Inbound Links — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:52:10 +0000

[...] reader asked a question on another blog post that I could all readers of this blog could benefit from so I’m going to address it [...]

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:52:06 +0000

@Chris Manning – Sorry that this happened to your website…to me it sounds like this other company was black hat and used some sort of mass submission to smaller search engines. Honestly, there are 3 (maybe 4) real search engines, so this would have been a red flag…

My advice is to contact this firm and ask them for a list of the places that they submitted your website. If they don’t provide it then ask them to un-do what they did for you. Another thing you can do is install and verify your website with Google webmaster tools and export a link analysis to locate this bad incoming links. Then contact each of these sites and ask them to remove your links.

I hope this helps & Best of luck!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:46:01 +0000

@david – Excellent points! Thanks for the comment!

By: Chris Manning

Chris Manning — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:43:23 +0000

Quick question about SEO – I was ranked in the top 3 for over 120 of my target keywords and a “SEO Company” offered to do a free niche search engine submission for free if I would take a look at their services. A week after that happened my rankings dropped on all but about 30 keywords. Any ideas why this would happen?

By: david

david — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:59:48 +0000

I guess the biggest thing is that SME websites can stretch and adjust their conditions to accommodate advertiser/link requirements.

If you are a government or large corporate you will likely not be able to add a basic element such as a relevant back links page. Another issue the SME can benefit from is that they dont have to use “company pty ltd” as their link text as this which will not deliver as much impact as “your product/industry” keywords…

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:28:47 +0000

@TotalVac – Thanks for the comment…I hope everything is going well! Google Pagerank is not as important as it used to be (in fact, I very rarely even look at Google Page Rank these days at all). Generating quality visitors and increases sales/leads from these organic search engine visitors is much more important…

By: TotalVac

TotalVac — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:26:03 +0000

Daniel,
You have a page rank of three, so you must be doing something right.