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In regards to diluting your link profile with new and better links is indeed possible as mentioned by Karl. However, this will be a massive job that will take ages to do. Consider the following: a good standard of having either brand-name or exact match anchor text is about 30% of your overall link profile (I wish I had that article to show you, forgot where it was). Now currently, you have 76 out of 77 links with the exact anchor text of "whey protein". In order to get those links into the 30% of your overall anchor texts in your link profile, you would need to create A LOT of new high-quality links. My best advice is to either change as many anchor text as you can, or just get rid of the backlink if it's on a low-quality page.

Just place the correct canonicals on the correct urls and wait for Google to recrawl. It may take or week or more You can also go to webmaster tools "Health < Fetch as Google" and submit a small number of urls directly to the for asap recrawl Stephen

Thank you for your advice! What you think.. subomains..or subfolders?  Todd FOster just answered too and he said: I mean...what's the best solution? Thank you so much for your help!

If you have a truly natural link profile, you will automatically have a diverse set of c-blocks linking to you. The only time you need to look up c-blocks is if you are trying to diagnose a poor-performing site with a lot of backlinks, or if you're trying to build a blog ring that will fly under the radar.

I'd say that's a substantial enough change. I'd wait and see what happens in the next week or so. Does googlebot visit your site fairly often?

Hi Glen, Can you provide further detail as to what you mean about 'bouncing around'? Please, describe that behavior more thoroughly. Now, without actually investigating your listing, my response will have to be pretty general. Here are some factors to consider: Proximity to city centroid Age of domain Consistency of NAP (name, address, phone) in citations Age, authority, pace and number of citations Optimization of website Compliance with the 'hide address' rule, if appropriate Existence or lack of duplicate listings Compliance with all other guidelines Authority, number and pace of reviews These are some of the core factors. One thing you might like to do is run your site through 51 Blocks' local competitive analysis tool which lets you compare your site to the top 10 on some of the top local ranking factors: http://www.51blocks.com/online-marketing-tools/free-local-analysis/ This is a new tool and I'm really excited about it. It's getting good press in the localsphere, and right now, it's free. Why not check that out and see if you notice something important, as well as considering all of the points on my list. Hope this helps!

Hi jdcline - Would probably need a bit more info to provide an answer. Obviously you are aware of the Penguin update last Friday (http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change). My initial response wants to be that you should create pillar pages where the home page links to 10 or so main categories, and then those pages link to next level pages, instead of linking to all sites from the home page. Definitely need more info though - does each page, link to every other page (50)?  Are the links to the 50 pages from the home page in the footer? Top navigation?

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Thanks Dana.

You should change the links on your website to link to the www version.

"There is an XML sitemap submitted and GWMT shows a total number of indexed pages in the 800'000 region." Brilliant. That's the number I would trust. Incidentally, I see different numbers than what you see for all 4 site: queries you mentioned. Variances are pretty normal in my experience. I've never noticed it, I would be intrigued to hear if someone else has correlated such variances to a technical issue or penalty.

I did a quick check of your backlinks and noticed two red flags: Most of your links use keyword anchor texts. Natural link profiles tend to use more brand and url anchor texts. I saw a bunch of forum signature and profile page links that may have been mass created. Definitely a spammy type of link. Hope that helps!

Was just about to ask the same question

Can an EMD update remove SERPS for all keywords, or just the exact matches? We recently lost all our foreign language domain serps, roughly on the 4/5th

Cary That stinks, really sorry to hear less than one month of link building did that. Without being able to do a full investigation, I surmise the links simply don't count anymore. In other words, they're likely not hurting you or helping you in any way. Yes, brand is any variation on the company name or URL. Also, this extensive list on link building strategies has some great ideas for local businesses. -Dan

Yep, no problem. Glad to help :).

Good to know