Website 1: GoCompare.com (That annoying opera singer spearheading the car insurance campaign)

Go Compare is an extremely well-known brand of car insurance company in the UK. They have many links back to their site with a mix of anchor text rotating between phrases such as car insurance, cheap car insurance and many links with just the term Go Compare.

Having the term Go Compare as an anchor text link back to their site has reinforced to Google that the company are not trying to falsify search engine listings with anchor text link phrases. This is why after Penguin, Go Compare continues to flourish.

Website 2: Powerseeker.co.uk (A website that sells on car insurance using the Go Compare car insurance facility)

Powerseeker is a website which uses the car insurance forms from other sites, Go Compare being one of them.

As Powerseeker were not a big brand they didn't feel the need to have the anchor text of Powerseeker or Powerseeker Insurance linking back to their site. They simply used a variation of key phrases that people would tpe into the serch engines such as cheap car insurance. In 2012, the Penguin update classed that too many of these links with anchor text that falsifies search engine results pages on too many websites, will treat the target web page as spam. Therefore millions of websites have thousands of links built by SEO gurus over the years which have now killed their rankings.

The only way to recover from Penguin is to manually have these links removed.

Has your website been hit by Google Penguin?

If your traffic has sigificantly decreased since the end of March / April 2012 the chances are that you have been subject to a non-manual spam penalty (Penguin). As explained above, Penguin targets websites with an "abnormal" amount of links to it from websites that are not related in any way using anchor text for these links that is intended to manipulate search engine results pages (SERPS).

Your only real choice is to right this wrong by attempting to remove these said links then applying to Google for a Reconsideration Request. This request can be done through your Google account and must be a thorough request (not just a one-liner like "Hey, my site has disappeared and I have tried to remove the links by emailing everyone, can you put it back please?)

Viper Image Media can help remove these links for you by using a dedicated team that can document each email which is what Google would prefer as this proves you have done what is required. This procedure of removing the bad links can help you follow procedure to recover from the Google Penguin update. For more information please call 08456 432 110 and we can discuss further what you require.

I need more visitors to my website!

We not only help customers recover from problematic links, but offer various packages to help improve search engine rankings for websites using various methods such as social bookmarking, setting your site up to allow social sharing, registering with trusted directories, adding quality content and tweaking your sites meta tags, H1 tags and text in order to maximise positions in the SERPS for your preferred keywords.

I need to increase my goals and conversions!

It's all about trust! Getting users to visit your website is one thing, however getting them to stay and buy something or fill in a form is another. Viper Image Media can help you adjust your website to improve visitor trust so they buy and share information with you. By calling us or emailing us we can assess your current website and put together a plan of how it can be improved to maximise conversions and goals.

Why is my bounce rate so high?

If you have installed Google Analytics you will know what a bounce rate is already. For those who don't, the bounce rate on a web page is the percentage of people that land on it then click away immediately ie - Your site is not what they want.

To tighten up your bounce rate which will keep your visitiors on your site for longer can mean significant changes to each of your pages and its meta tags. For example you maybe selling small green plastic widgets and only getting traffic for large green widgets. You would need the text on your page changing, links adding to the page with another page creating too. Methods such as this will help reducr bounce rates and cut out unwanted visitors to your site.

If you would like more traffic to your site or want ideas on how to increase conversions and decrease bounce rates, give us a call on 08456 432 110.