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Hi Ryan,

First of all, I appreciate all your effort and input.  Can't thank this community enough!

I have no idea on how those links were created.  All our links were from personal finance blogs or mainstream media sites.  I never bought links or hired anyone to do link building for us.

If you don't mind me asking, how were you able to find these links?  Are you using open site explorer?

I never really went too deep into building links to the new SEO articles I wrote...I did a few internal links within my blog, but NEVER went crazy.. maybe just 1-2 at the most...

I never in my life bought any links

About 3-4 Months ago, I focused heavily on doing a lot of keyword research analysis, and cherry picking keywords I could rank for using SEOmoz's tool.

I would say that I was moderately successful, but the funny thing is that literally almost EVERY SINGLE keyword that was ranked just fell off the earth.  I always wrote unique content.

But some articles that weren't specifically targeted for SEO purposes maintained their rank (for the most part)

Thanks for your help.  When I went here:  http://onlinealley.com/seotools/googlebannedchecker/  I entered www.onbetterterms.com and it says it's been blacklisted.  Is there another more legit website that you check?

So would you say the solution is to try and hunt down the domains with the anchor text of "debt eye" and kindly ask to remove it?

HI David,

Thanks for the resources.  I had a chance to look through the articles, but I'm still trying to figure out why I exactly got penalized.  It's a mystery that I don't seem to understand.

In one of the articles, it mentioned that there could be "over-optimization" with anchor texts.  I looked at some of my articles and I don't have many in-bound links with similar anchor texts.

I did, however, submit a request to Google to review it, but I'm not expecting anything out of it.

I just realized that my blog, (www.onbetterterms.com) just recently got blacklisted.  That blog actually redirects to www.springcoin.com/blog

On May 25th, Google released the Penguin 1.1 update.  After looking at my rankings, I found out that all my keywords positions were dropped.

I have no idea why, and don't know how to fix this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I checked my GA account today and noticed that I had a ton of traffic from Facebook to a specific blog article on my site.

I tried to look into it, but I can't seem to find exactly where it's coming from.

Is there anyway I can figure this out?  It's been bugging me all day.

Thanks a ton.  This was extremely helpful and so easy.  That advanced segments was so small to see, I can't believe i missed it.

Again, thanks for your help!

Hi,

I wanted to figure out the most optimal way to track the number of visitors that comes to a specific page on my blog via search engine only.

I know Google Analytics has a "top landing page" filter, but that includes all visitors that comes in directly or other channels.

Is there a way to figure out how many visitors a certain page received that was generated through only search engine?

Does SEOmoz have this capability?

I was wondering what the purpose of submitting your blog articles to directories are.  Doesn't it require enough "points" or "+1's" for it to become a "do-follow" link?

People on the forum talk about automating directory submission, can anyone recommend a good software for this?  I've been hearing that Google Penalizes you for article submission because it looks like spam?