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Hi Leonie, Thanks for the reply. Its been driving us mad. Google wouldn't reply to our query. Will try the above and let you know if we see results. Best

I think that populating the pages with "old listings" is a great example of what I could do. I could say "No current listings, but these are the last 10 listings that was sold in this area". Thanks for your input.

What Keri said...works!

There is no limit to 301 redirects and in my opinion it makes your site much more crawl friendly for the search engines. Here is Matt Cutts of Google on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

Hey Moosa, Since the value of footer links is very low anyway, the likelihood that they may be seen as manipulative would be of far more concern to me - no following them is unlikely to make any sort of negative dent in search visibility. It will, however ensure that the site does not become an easy target for Penguin. Given the business your client is in, I imagine the most important thing for them is bringing new qualified traffic to their site. The potential for referral traffic from a nofollowed link with anchor text properly crafted to reinforce the brand and entice the click should be the prize they have their eye on. Hope that helps, Sha

Thank you so much! This is the best explanation I've gotten so far!

Good share, thx Dean

Absolutely! Yeah I'm just not sold on... A) The amount of work it would take to transition each site B) The risk of something going wrong C) The actual ranking benefit/advantage it would actually produce D) The value of it for our users And for that reason... I'm out! lol

Well....there are so so many things that can contribute to a fall in rankings...that I can't mention them all here... But a drop - if I read you right - from #6 to #10 is not a drop really at all...just normal fluctuations...i.e. this is how the rankings flutter... Have you checked tho to see if you're looking at the rankings using Personalized Search? Incognito? WebHistory on/off? Do some googling for those topics....read...and learn! Not trying to be dismissive here - just that there really is no 'answer' that you'd be satisfied with....honestly!

If you want to share a set of urls I'd be happy to take a look at it in case anything else jumps out.

Hi Jarno, This worked perfectly, thank you! All the best, Rodney

@Leonie-Kramer Yes, we are using Wordpress. I can see if changing the slug to not include spaces may help. @lynnp I noticed that too! Usually our developer doesn't help with technical SEO problems like this, so I was trying to solve it myself But I will try to see if he can take a look at it. Thanks to both for your answers!

Yep, seems right. I'd say you don't have enough authority yet to rank for a generic term. You would have to be #1 for "zing company" first i believe. But you are on the right path... just need to build more brand awareness and let google better learn the association between "zing" and your company. My guess is that once you reach a certain "authority", you should see your rankings jump for "zing".

Erica, Thank you for sticking with this and continuing to share your thoughts. It's very helpful and much appreciated!

Thanks for checking in, Mick!

Sounds to me like you only redirected homepage to homepage. Instead, you probably should have programmed the following into htaccess... RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC] Of course, you will want to replace example.com and example.net with your old domain and new domain. When you write it up in htaccess like I pasted above this way, you are doing an entire domain redirect. Source: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/redirects/setting-up-a-301-permanent-redirect-via-htaccess I have that page bookmarked for when I do SEO work through htaccess - maybe you should do the same :). Hope this helps. Good luck!

As far as I know that iteration would still be considered an 'exact match' domain, however, a lot industry experts have speculated and agree that their effectiveness is diminishing. In other words, ranking for exact match keywords using an exact match domain isn't as effective for getting a ranking boost as it used to be. That's some old school SEO right there. Hope this helps!

Hi Marijn, thanks for responding, I guess I got the wrong impression of the Moz functionality, thought that the weekly updates were instantanious and provide a "as it is now" perspective of authority, so its handy to know, so thanks for the share I have a query about updates, (in relation to the Google index) that you might be able to help me with? Only if you have the time of course. I provide software that displays a footer link, I know for sure which sites are using my software and that a little under half retain the footer link. A best case guess of the amount of links that are pointing to my main are in the order of 400k (maybe even double this amount), because it varies per site dependant on the amount of pages, one site, has 10k pages (which is probably the largest) but the others range from 100 to a couple of thousand pages (all of which contain a link back). The problem is that my domain authority doesn't seem to reflect this amount of links. One would think even new sites would pass a little link juice, or is it possible that Google is discounting most or a selection of them? I was thinking of compiling a list of sites that use my software, with links so that Google will crawl the sites, but I read that this can affect authority negatively? fyi - Moz says that there are only 35k, which is less than a 10th (at best) of what's out there. Best wishes, Lee

Hi, Linda, what suprises me is that the difference is so brutal... and before this number was higher. The URL is infoempresa.com, it´s a Spanish site. Thanks again! Aleks