Sunday, September 25, 2011

Bad Inbound Links ? What to do ?

Someone has ask me a question :

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?
Thats an excellent question and theres no easy, quick fix to a situation like this. I would begin by asking the other search engine optimization company to give you a list of places they submitted your link to. Then you should contact those sites and ask if theyll remove your link. If that SEO company wont provide you a list of sites then ask them to undo what they did. If they refuse that then you can (and should do this anyway) verify your website with Google Webmaster Tools. Perform a link analysis on your site to see what inbound links you have and identify the ones from bad neighborhoods. Contact those site owners and ask them to remove your links.
If worse comes to worse and the website owners refuse to take down your links or you cant contact them, look up the Whois information on those sites to see who the web host is. Contact the web host and let them know that they have bad neighborhoods on their servers. A reputable host will remove the sites and shut down those accounts. They will also remove your links.

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