SEO firm going nutz. Went down in google and lost in yahoo.

[iMaca]

Hey, The SEO firm I work for has lost placement in yahoo and is going down pretty bad in google. We have about 150 sites linked together sharing a page rank of about 4 and have 2 leading sites that have page rank of 5. We added some new domains to our network a few months ago and one of the got blacklisted for some reason. It was a part of our entire network for a few months. We have just took down the site and took it out of our network and changed a few things but we seem to keep going down in the SERPS. Go ahead and take a peak at out network. http://www.utahwebservices.com/links.html (we decreased amount of links on all of our pages so you have to go to this page to see what we had ). Can someone please look at our network and let me know what you think. Thank you, JacobOne thing I noticed that is very bad in all engines are your network of interlaced sites. That could be a penalty right there.Have any of those site ever been in the top 100 with Googlefor 'web design'?just wondering,Bompa*duh - forget the interlaced sites. It's the fact that every single one of them are an exact duplicate of the original. That won't fly anymore.Well we get a tun of traffic through theses sites and was number 3 for utah web design and many other terms. They may seem to be an exact duplicate but they are not " exact ". I know that we must be braking allot of rules and if we were to do this right we could get 10 times the traffic we have now. We have about 20,000 back links for our 2 main sites. What do you guys suggest we do?- Jacobsearch engines are real good at sniffing out a network of site, and when the content is that close, foramt and all, then the links are all within themselves your pretty well cooked. May I ask if these sites all reside on the same Class C network? If so its almost pointless to have them all interlaced. I would suggest making one site and point all your urls at it and get some real incomming links.well, they all appear to be on the same IP address. I think that's a no-no for too many related sites linking together, but I could be wrong.What do you guys think we should do? Our ranking is starting to go down. We want to keep all of our sites. Do you think there is a better way for us to network this whole thing? Any suggestions would be very helpful right now. Thank you all, JacobA simulation tool:http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php shows that almost all of your "web design" sites more than 60% similar to the others.Maybe it's needed to change the content of every site and get some links from your networks.This domain name is available ALLSTATESWEBSERVICES.COMI would suggest you buy it before it's taken.First, I don't consider myself an SEO expert, but what you are doing interlinking all of your sites and having your content therein so similar it is basically now being considered as search engine spam. And well it should be. In my opinion it is. At a glance from a novice user, the sites are somewhat attractive, but from a pro user's point of view you are merely using a CMS and slightly varying the position and graphics of the content, but essentially it is virtually the same. And all your intralinking is killing you.Let me attempt to give an example (I have no idea if it will work, but I'm tempted to believe it will.) Me and my partner co-own a site boastingrights.com (noted in my signature). If you type in boasting rights (just the two words without quotes) into Google, you will find us currently placed #1 SERP result out of over 700,000 results (As of this posting). You have to admit that that's an extremely generic search phrase, which is the first indication that I know what I'm talking about. I'm also willing to bet that within the next two to three days, this post ranks higher than my current SERP given the fact that OZZU is a PR 7 and we're only a PR4, and I've chosen my words carefully to attempt to ensure that it happens. Unless, I edit my post to remove my Boasting Rights references, I suspect, this post will stay above me in results once it gets indexed.You are currently spamming the search engines with your method and that is killing you. My suggestion would be to buy the domain name I suggested, and temporarily redirect all your individual domains to that one (and perhaps rework your site to add relevent content to your design services - which obviously are the same for all states you currently have listed ) then at a given time when your extraneous domain names expire, let them expire and save the cash. I know you are depending upon the intralinking for backlinks and high PR, but I just don't think that's going to cut it any longer.Truthfully (and this is not meant to be insulting, but I'm almost surprised you chose the handle SEO Pro.) Looks like you have some work ahead of you IMHO.That's my 2 cents.My guess is that one of your competitors reported you There's nothing wrong with interlinking 150 sites, except thatall your sites serve the purpose that one site could serve.Basically, you're trying to flood your market with your domainnames. That's an old trick. If you did that in my market, I'dreport you to Google in a heartbeat.You are cluttering up Google's results with 149 extra domain names.You are muscling out the little guys that have just one domainname and are busting their butt for a serp.Well, all is fair in love and war and making a buck online iswar heh. So, it's quite fair if someone reported you and nowyou lose it all.BompaBompa - we definitely have something to agree upon there *smiles.Thank you all for your input. I would have to disagree with the fact that we are flooding the market. Even know all of our sites with in our network are very similar to each other they all server a purpose. We only have 2 sites per state or city and they only show in SERPs once for each state or city. I have only been working for this company for about a year and this network is about 3 years old. I can not just come into this company and tell them that their system that has worked extreamly well up to now is no good. I have read allot about SEO and work on about 3 dif web operations a day and manage over 700 domains. I do not consider myself a pro even know my username may reflect that but I do believe I know it fairly well. This network seems to be breaking allot of rules in a way but it has done very well and I believe after I get a few kinks out it will continue to do well. - Jacob" I can not just come into this company and tell them that their system that has worked extreamly well up to now is no good." ...you won't have to tell them the SE's will do that for you. They have put together the perfect example of "what not to do" to get ranked well. Let the banning begin Did you say this is an SEO company?