client site in link farms

[wbrook]

Hi,

I've got a client who created her own site (no page titles, frames, no noframes tags, etc) and then paid for one of those submit to a gazillion search engines which included loads of link farms.

I've redesigned the site and I've fixed everything I could.

But is there any way to compensate for penalties applied to the site for ending up in all those link farms? Is there anything I can do other than trying to establish good quality links to the site?

Thanks.

(what are you supposed to put in the "meta description" when you post to this forum?)

[2_much]

Hey Wbrook, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

The ideal solution would be to register another domain, copy the site over and start from scratch.

If you can't, the only thing you can do is try and balance it with quality links: DMOZ, Yahoo (if worth it), and other relevant sites.

[crash]

Remember, the links from link farms can't hurt you unless you link back ;)

Best bet to start is determine the actual harm done - if your really just talking about a poorly designed site that relies on some FFA type links a cleanup and directory submission should set all to rights within a reasonable amount of time. If you keep working on online promotion efforts you should have one happy client before to long :)

[Jane_Doe]

I have one site that has literally hundreds of links from PR0 sites (many of them DMOZ clones). This site has pages with PR4 - 6, and ranks okay in Google and other search engines for its keywords. I don't see that links *from* these types of sites have hurt it in the rankings in any way.

You can't control who links to your site, only which sites you link back to.

[wbrook]

Thanks everyone. I hadn't thought about the fact that we weren't linking back. This is a relief.

A couple of questions about these "submit to a gazillion" services:

What about the fact that this "service" submits to all the possible language versions of the most popular search engines even though the site is only in English (The client sent me their "report"). Will this be seen as spam?

In this "report" there are also a number of sites that have no free submission, and judging from what they charge, it wasn't included in the fee. How do they do this?

Just curious.

Thanks again.

[tigger]

"submit to a gazillion"

Don’t bother with them, so long as you’re in the main directories & SE's any of the smaller ones will list you over time

[wbrook]

I have no intention whatsoever of using this type of service. But I would like to know more about how they work and what kind of damage they can do.

Thanks anyway.