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Hi Guys. Just wondering about this idea that links from Charities are particularly good.  I've heard people say that links from .org sites are particularly strong.  But anyone can get a .org domain, it's just that charities tend to use them more often.  Right? I just don't get the logic. Can anyone give more detail about this?  Is it a myth?  Is there quality info on this topic I can check out? We're working with several charities at the moment, and they all seem happy to blog and link to us...so I just wanted to know a little more. Isaac.

I'm working with a site owner who recently hired an SEO to work on just one particular type of keyword.  It seems like the more work the SEO did, the lower the keyword gradually dropped.  Granted, the "work" is pretty low quality - anchor texted bookmarks, comments and low quality articles.  We're doing an experiment where we are going to disavow those links and see if the previous rankings return. Another site that I am consulting with has a lot of good natural links and then some anchor texted links, but from decent sources - some guest posts (on good sites - not a spammy site that exists only for guest posts) and some places where decent websites have agreed to link to the site.  The anchor texted links do not make up very much of the overall anchor text.  There is good diversity and lots of brand and url anchored links.  It seems like the more the SEO does for this site, the more the rankings drop.  And it's not all about anchor text.  The SEO placed a link in a relevant directory, using the url as anchor...rankings dropped a little.  They obtained an expired domain with relevant and very natural links and 301'd it to the new domain...rankings dropped several places.  And so on.  Occasionally the rankings will pop up a little, but overall it's a downward spiral. Check out this post by Gary Taylor.  He did an experiment where he took an established site that was ranking well and threw some spammy links at it.  To quote the article, 'every day goes by my ranking for the term “domains” is getting harder to maintain.'  He recently tweeted that he has been removing and disavowing links and the rankings are returning. I was looking at searches for real estate related terms in different cities.  In some cities, the top sites are ones that have ZERO obvious SEO done to them.  There are sites ranking on page 3 that have been SEO'd, and not all of them have poor SEO.  Many are what I would consider really well done.  Some of the sites ranking on page 1 have under 10 links.  There was one with 2 followed links and they were not from super authoritative sites! To complicate matters though, if you look at searches like "Toronto Real Estate Agents" some of the top sites have lots of keyword anchor texted links. Perhaps this should be a blog post rather than a Q&A, but I would love to hear some of your thoughts.  My personal thought is that Google's main goal with Penguin and the unnatural links warnings is to make it so that not only is it not profitable to try to manipulate the SERPS, but that every time you try to do so, you potentially do your rankings harm. I used to say that Penguin could only affect a site on the date of a Penguin refresh, but I am thinking now that Google has managed to roll Penguin into the algorithm to some extent  so that it can demote the majority of any work that smells of SEO. Thoughts?

On my campaign report from SEOmoz I have noticed that all my 3 competitors have 99% followed links versus 1% no-followed links. Should I do the same? How can I check were are the no-follow links on my site? I have found some tool online but it shows me that there are only 2 no-follow links on my website which are both www.cloudflare.com while SEOmoz report shows me that I have 1031...where can i view this links?

I'm submitting some disavow reports for clients.  As most of you likely know you can either disavow a URL or a domain.  So, to disavow a url, you would enter into the text file: http://www.example.com/this_page.html and to disavow the entire domain you would enter: domain:example.com I find that in most cases you would want to disavow the domain.  For example, if there is a backlink on www.exampledirectory.com/health/page24/, by the time Google goes to disavow that link it may be on page 25. However, it is super time consuming to take my list of urls from a spreadsheet and type, "domain:" in front and also remove the http://www. Is there a way this can be done programatically?

Hey SeoMozzers, I'm wondering if it is recommendable to use the meta-tag "noindex" for the landingpage of a linkbait, or not. Do you have any considerations, experiences, opinions regarding that question? Thank you and best regards!

I read a latest post on seomoz that _“Do not buy or exchange link with anyone who contacts you. This is completely against Google's policies and if they were to find out, you could be penalized."  So I went through Google's ''Link Schemes''  and found that ''Excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you")''  can negatively impact a site's ranking . _ So is it the ''excessive'' link exchanging that can cause a negative impact? Exchanging links with good quality, cached sites (without excessive doing) can do good or bad? Can anyone please explain to me in detail?

I have come up with a very creative way to get some great back links using white hat methods. The problem is that the back links to the site would be to an interior page or external promotional website which then have links back to the main website. What kind of value for the main domain would this potentially achieve. What are peopLes thoughts on this idea?