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Can I ask what things have you tried? How many visitors were you getting when you were ranked 25 and how many are you getting now? You want to be aiming to be on the first page (spots 1 - 3 ideally) going from 25 - 70 will make hardly any difference in actual visitors imo. Do you know when this drop occured? If the product is becoming increasingly popular it could be a fact that other sites are moving up due to relevance and you down and you need to adjust your approach a little. Another thing is alot of your competitors have the words "bike" or "electric" in their domain name and this helps too, you don't. Anchor Text for you is REALLY important so every link you get from now on make sure it says Electric Bikes or Buy Electric Bikes (as that what you want people to do buy your bikes)  You will rank for your brand name with any issue so try to avoid any further links with your brand name. I would even go as far as changing the tab that says "bike" to "Electric Bikes" also. ++++++++++ As a side note: When you get visitors to your site I feel you will have a issue with converting as many as you "could" because your site isn't very friendly it shouldn't be on black it makes it very hard to read but you may not deal with that nor want to talk about that yet....

If one were better than the other (and I'm not sure of any research comparing the two), then I would guess at .cn, since that's as top level as you can get with it (I know their both top level but that was the original).

Great Stuff, I Think I Remeber Reading About Your Success Not To Long Ago On Here! Ps I Have No Idea Why Every Word Has Been Capitalized Here ... Android Typing

Hi Bob, If I understand correctly you have some pages on your website that generate some report in some other place and immediately afterwards redirect themselves to this new report. I think it depends on how important these pages are whether or not this is a problem. If for example a landing page returns a 302 status, that´s a problem. However, if the page generating the report and redirecting itself does not need to be indexed it´s not really an isseu. You might want to add a rel="nofollow" to the buttons and links that point to the page generating the text reports.

Nice answer. If your thinking about creating a reciprocal link ask yourself if the link would be beneficial to your users. Search engines want to see you linking to closely related and useful content, this is how the web is "supposed" to work. If you're thinking of just slapping a random link in your footer then don't bother.

Hi Jean, I highly recommend Epipheo Studios. They're a bit expensive but they do amazing work. We recently had them create a video for our website and we love it. If anything, adding a video to your site would likely help your site through improved engagement stats. I wouldn't worry about load time too much. The best option is to embed the video on your site through YouTube, Vimeo, Wisita or any other 3rd party hosting service. The embed code will have very little affect on load time. Hope this helps! Tim

Story's still pretty much the same - I'd be MORE worried than before if you're doing either in a way that could be perceived as intentionally manipulative and more for engines than users, but I wouldn't sweat doing either if it's user-focused, high value and editorial.

Catalyste, Yes, this is something that I will need to implement. With that, I also wanted to ask you, if we fore-go implementing 'rich snippets' and 'authorship' fields in the BETA is that going to create more problems for development down the line? More specifically, if we decide to hold off implementing authorship/rich snippets until we launch the actual production site for visitors/customers, will this create more problems than just implementing this stuff now? Likewise, are there any additional suggestions you'd make for a news organization's site?

The reason for leaving the homepage is purely branding.  It will eventually be redirected to the holding company's site. Thanks for the help.  Great point of view on how it could be viewed as negative SEO in the 'bots' of Google. -Greg

I had to come back and thank you for the great suggestion on the Screaming Frog software tool, this is exactly what I was looking for plus some additional tools that are invaluable.

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Thanks for the responses guys , it was picked back up in around 4 hours and lost no rank thankfully orders crashed but are back to normal now  ! I'm going to investigate the two versions of the site is a bit strange again thanks for your help

Hi, I think the issue lies in the original redirect If you notice the 404 URLS all have the ending extension, then additional items, there would probably be no space here, as this was probably from a previous domain level 301 Also for ones like redirect 301 "/ 20Sponsored" http://www.mysite.com/   quotations are not necessary, as there appears to be no space. It is really hard for me to give you specifics - can you PM me a specific URL string that is 404'ing then I will send you the correct 301 expression and we can check that way?

I figured it out! RedirectMatch 301 /dynamic.php(.*) https://www.mysite.com/page.htm

It depends. If the article goes on your site first it gets indexed and all the credit. If someone takes it for their own usage and does not link back to you it can hurt them. If they syndicate your article and trackback to the original, AKA the first one indexed they will not be punished.

Hi Andrew - If this question has been answer/the issue has been fixed, could you please mark it as Closed? Thanks!

Thanks Highland and Donnie for your input. It's not a sitewide, though there are three links from it. AVG's tool confirms the threat so it's definitely a bad seed (thx for the link). I know it's not that bad and that link alone can't penalize the website I work with, but that one gives me a lot of work : borderline spammy profile, with two "satellite site" heavily linking to it that were penalized (because of abuse of anchor text precisely)... not quite natural, though itself wasn't penalised by Penguin. I guess old numerous triangle links between the same webmaster's websites aren't triggering the algo, even if they're penalized, but I prefer to do a little bit of cleaning now before it's too late^^

Thanks. I've seen that data, but I think they failed to distinguish between Panda 3.5 results and Penguin results.