So the root of most of the issues Google is having with THE Canadian Personal Finance Site seems to be failing Google’s Quality Guidelines . There seems to be too many links on my home page and on my site so it looks to them like I am a link farm. I feel I am not, but I also realize I do have a lot of links all over my site with Carnivals and such but I am also taking steps to clean up some of the link mess.
- I have many things on my page template that linked to sites directly, but I have added Rel=NoFollow tags to many of those (since these links are courtesy links to friends of mine).
- I told TextLinkAds that I would remove them in 30 days (I told them that a while ago), so that may be a big fix, but I might be mistaken.
- Hacking the Commenters plug-in to create links with Rel=NoFollow was also fun, and that should also reduce the spurious-looking links.
- I have gone through many of my older carnival links and done bulk changes to the links there to Rel=NoFollow as well, which should make my site look less like a “link whore” site.
I continue cleaning up the broken links since they keep coming up, but I will also be changing my page theme, and I may kick some more things out when that happens, too.
The last reconsider request I sent to Google took only two days to get a response of NO! so I will wait a while before asking for a reconsideration (maybe after I have a new theme in place as well).