kflanagan - 8:29 am on Sep 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hey

Thanks for that post, there is lots of great information in there and I get what you meant now.

I did wonder if it was a penalty or just Google deciding the links to the site had were crap. One of the sites ranked top 3 for a keyword that brought in around 2.5k uniques per month. It was happily sitting there for 2 months but now doesn't appear anywhere for that keyword. This is why I thought it may be getting penalized.

I am going to focus on different anchor text for now and see how it fairs over the next 3 weeks. If it doesn't move ill prob just leave it and move on.

I agree with your tactic of getting links from related sites and not concentrating on anchor text so much but this can be really difficult in some markets. There are markets where link bait, writing great content etc etc doesn't get me any links because everyone is a competitor and lateral markets are just not interested in the site.

Thanks again