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Many Thanks Kevin but im really looking to add to csv and upload to wordpress plugin so looking into what properies need to be on the csv i.e. will just 2 columns of old and new urls do which i then convert to spreadsheet or do i need to put any other info in etc like adding headers to the columns etc many thanks dan

Strange, I can! May be should try after some time

Try and do you best to stick to quality websites for links but most importantly make sure the link is tied to relevant content. Beyond that i always look at 3 factors when choosing places to reach out to: Do they have a domain Moztrust above 2 Are they currently indexed in Google Is the content focused, relevant and to the point Also if you ever want a sanity check on your link profile, http://www.linkdetox.com/, does an awesome job of automating the process of telling you good, suspicious and toxic links in your profile. Plus it is only $40 for the tool which is totally worth it! Good luck! Kyle

Nope, unfortunately, there's no way to export the pages that are linking to 404s. If those links are valuable, you should set a 301 permanent redirect to the new page (where the original content used to be). By doing that the juice passes to the new page.

Thanks for helping out! Yes, this just started after the change. The forums never outranked the editorial site in the past. We would rather have the editorial site rank better. As for the content scraper, the site is down but still shows in Google results. I tried to submit pages manually for removal, which works, but they copied thousands of pages.

Hi Chris, They're saying that it's better to link to internal resources such as a "Belleville" brand page on your domain, and then you can put the external link on that page. It's not that linking out isn't beneficial (it is), but rather that it's more important to keep those visitors on the site, and build out those resources yourself. For a site that specializes in boots, a sizing chart is the type of content that you should recreate yourself rather than linking out. In regards to linking out, try integrating that into blog content and things of that nature rather than core content related to your products and services. On a usability sidenote, the black color for links makes them very difficult to see compared to the gray text color you're using.

Hi Patricia, I wondered about that issues of an attempted merge. If you go to the Google and Your Business Forum (http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/business) and search for 'merged', 'merging' and variants you will find a veritable mountain of threads there about issues stemming from this. The merge situation is still really buggy, and most of the best Local SEOs I know are still advising against merging Google+ Local and Google+ Business pages right now because of this. I don't want you to get taken to the cleaners again, either. I highly recommend that you check out both the local category of the recommended companies list here at SEOmoz and also this page on GetListed.org, which is also an SEOmoz-owned company: http://getlisted.org/resources/trustedproviders.aspx Both lists are very trustworthy. If you need to hire a Local SEO, look there for firms you can rely upon. Good luck!

For what it's worth, I'm agreeing with Jeremy.  Having accidentally done this to myself and spent more than a few hours trying to figure out why all my title tags were messed up...  It turned out to be a WP plugin that had a template for a sitewide override (or something to that effect) where there were a bunch of %%something%%, %%date%%, %%blah-blah%% that I must have filled in at some point not realizing what I was doing. Took them out... and everything went back to normal. My screen looked extremely similar to yours.

Hi Holger, Sorry for the confusion! I took a look at your campaign and this is not related to your Bing & Yahoo rankings for that keyword, because the site is not ranking in the top 50 for those two search engines. This is actually a bit of a bug. What happened is that, for some reason, the rankings did not update correctly for this keyword last week on 4/20 as they should have so the "change" filter sees that as the site dropping out of the top 50 and then showing up back at 10 in the next update. If the ranking for that keyword had updated correctly, you would see a break in the line graph rather than the connected dots between the 4/13 and 4/27 updates. I believe that this keyword is missing the update for the 4/20 rankings because we will update rankings as long as we have information for 95% of the keywords. Since this is the only keyword that seems to be affected by the issue, it means that we weren't able to pull data for that one keyword but we did have data for all the other keywords so the system updated the information. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn

You're welcome, From what I can tell, 2013 features massive improvements in terms of SEO for publishing pages. I'm not sure about the blog, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't a whole lot better.

Hi again! It's normal that you feature very similar or even, duplicate content through both your mobile and desktop Website versions, what it is fundamental though is that you use the rel alternate and canonical tags that I shared with you in my previous answer. I've just checked your site and you're not using them. If you correctly add these tags in your mobile and desktop URLs as I described in my previous answer you shouldn't have any content duplication or cannibalization issues in Google's search results. Thanks! Aleyda

Yes, but if the two sites are running off the same hosting environment, Google might get a little unhappy with that. But, all in all, I agree about the premise of hundreds of people using the same themes.

It sounds very likely that you just got caught up in penguin links thing and someone upstream got hammered, as well as you, and that left you with less authority than you had before. If the penalty has been removed, it means that you've done what was required to fall back within googles webmaster guidelines and if you're still not ranking, then it's time to get back to work networking, creating content that engages customers, networking and creating content that  engages customer, and over and over. I mean, if your current content isn't doing it for you you need to strategize on new content that's going to map to your business goals and engage your prospective customers. You might look at it as starting again from square one and be thankful you're not in the same situation as many others who haven't yet been able to escape the penalty.

thanks for that

I you agree however you must figure out exactly what prompted you to be penalized. And if Google knows that you have the same content on a different domain they will probably not look the other way because they're getting so much stricter. I don't know that but I wouldn't count on Google being kind. What makes you believe you've been penalized? Have you ever received a notice from Google?

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I decided to stick to geekwik.com only and will dump geekwik.in. The pricing will continue to remain in USD. Only in checkout page will put an Indian Payment gateway option which will collect payments in INR (After applying exchange rate factor) and paypal gateway would be there as it is now. Invoicing would still be in USD but there would be option to pay by INR which I wanted. I guess this solves the duplicate content issue to quite an extent. What do you think.

If they're going to link to a URL on your domain because of the content in the iframe, why not go for it. Are they really going to link to you though, is the question.  As far as getting people to link to you, there's not that much difference between what you're describing and inserting a feed on your page. Technically, of course there's a big difference, but as a means of getting links, you still have to do the outreach, the curation, the unique-ifying (if it's content that's been taken from somewhere else on the web), the audience building, etc. . It will always be  a struggle for you--and what happens when the license on the app runs out or the sites with the pages serving the iframe go out of business? Because it's not a long term solution, we call stuff like that black hat. If you don't have a high tolerance for risk and you're not looking long-term, no biggie, go for it. If you're going to get easy back links from respectable sites from it, go for it.  If you think it might be a tactic that your peers may not respect you for, you might think otherwise.

There's no way to reverse proxy and hide that sub-domain? Ideally, a CDN for content itself would never be seen by the crawlers. If people are going to actually see this sub-domain and potentially link to it, then you're probably going to have to use cross-domain canonical. That's not an ideal solution, though - ideally, the CDN should be invisible to Google and visitors.

When a domain goes into pending delete status it's DNS have been usually deactivated for a while, generally since the domain entered it's redemption grace period (depending on the domain extension and the registrar). It usually takes some time for a 301 to 'settle', so I would renew the old domain and keep it redirected for a while, here you'll find a compendium of data on the subject. The thing is, if the domain has gone into pending delete status, the domain will be deleted soon (5 day period) and you won't be able to renew it. You could use a back order service to try and snatch it, or you could try to do it by hand if the domain is not valuable. 1- When the domain expires (probably sooner), you will loose access to the domain hence the address change will stop working, you'll see that in Webmaster Tools. 2- The pages will cease to exist and so will the redirections, the advise is to keep control of the old domain for at least 180 days. 3- It depends on several factors, like the amount of indexed pages, the amount of links pointing to them, crawling rate, etc. but for an average site it usually takes a couple of months for it to completely disappear from the index (can be a lot faster though).

Let's hope not...