with hindsight I should have redesigned the blog pages to convert. The potential spend of the lost traffic was not harnessed

my blog category pages began to rank higher for key converting search terms than my main website  - not good - sales dont happen on my blog.

So I stopped the indexing of my category pages....guess what happened?..my website is back to position 1 BUT my blog traffic reduced by half.....so consider EGOL's warning prior to making a decision

OK thanks

yeah i suppose you are right BUT we were just about to start a link building program - if anyone was to do a SEOmoz analysis of the site surely they would think the website is questionable???

The website in question was hacked four years ago and there was porn on the servers. It was used as a peer to peer torrent streamer.  The images were deleted.

We have just found inappropriate inward bound links (with great link juice!!)  - how can we remove these links - or should we?

any advice would be appreciated

thanks

with hindsight I should have redesigned the blog pages to convert. The potential spend of the lost traffic was not harnessed

my blog category pages began to rank higher for key converting search terms than my main website  - not good - sales dont happen on my blog.

So I stopped the indexing of my category pages....guess what happened?..my website is back to position 1 BUT my blog traffic reduced by half.....so consider EGOL's warning prior to making a decision