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Mike

My background is construction and had many a run in with health and safety (power hungry nut jobs )

I am sure your not like many I have met - however I do get the sense that construction is slowly getting back on it's feet, seeing a lot of jobs for people like estimators and QS's which is normally a good sign.

So I think demand for labour and management will return.

Second that.

According to my calcs it says it is a PR3 site and it only has seven links to it all of which are nonsense so would never be a PR5 - also the domain for the link is hosted in the Russia.

Google "fake google PR" and that will open a whole other discussion.

There are services that you can use for placing a blog advertisements where you ok the blog that they go on.

That said the keywords you are looking for should not take that kind of service to achieve.

Lina


Forget google and rankings for a second - pretend search engines have yet to be invented.

Your out shopping in Milton Keynes and your hair is a mess and you have a big work do tomorrow, you bump into me and Steve (for the sake of this example) and Steve hands you a flyer which has on it the top 5 hairdressers taking part in the annual Milton Keynes top hairdresser awards and somewhere on that list is Hair by Lina who just happen to be on two streets down from your office.

You move down the street a further 100 yards and I hand you a flyer with a random load of dating sites and some web sex cam sites and a list of adult friend finding sites in India and right next to the list is a local hairdressers name.

Which flyer would say would be the best for your business - how many would I have to give out of my flyer for me to drive business to your site, how many would Steve need to give out to drive business to you?

No go back to google it is designed to spot this sort of difference in flyers - it's a simple as that - 300* of links like the one I pm-ed you may be the equivalent or 1 or 2 links from a trade body or similar *(numbers are for demonstration of the point only)

If you think that the link I have sent is the way forward then I wish you the best of luck

As always just my 2 cents

Lina

Will pm you link as we do not want to advertise it here on the forum.

Mike you thought about agency work?

Lina - I agree with all that Steve has said and particularly the google algorithm

As for your links I am not sure if you have paid for them or bought one of of these $50 link finding companies but a quick look shows for example a link to a blog where next to your link I can also find an escort in Miami (and I don't mean the ford escort kind) also I can find an adult friend in India and several dating websites for me to choose from - oh and a sex webcam if all the other things are not required.

There are a few issues with your site that be causing some minor problems but these will be far outweighed compared to the trouble that links such as the one mentioned above might cause.

Good post - thanks Steve

It's normal to become obsessed with it - (I still am 8 years down the line) but you must get into the habit of pressing the following before checking rankings.

ctrl+shift+delete this will clear your browsing history

Goolge stores info on the sites you have searched for and will then serve them back up to you at a later date if you have shown some interest in the link before.

Many people fall foul of thinking there are on page one only to find that the browser has stored the info from a previous search

Hope it goes well for you - fingers crossed