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You can give them the code like I have done here http://www.associatemelody.com/link.html You would use html code similar to this: Hope this helps, Melody

@ Gary --- I had the same problem earlier this month on two keyword searches for longer keyword phrases in G.   Let's call these keywords "B" and "D".   The decreased volume for "B" and "D" were at least  30% each.   The shorter tail phrases ("A" and "C") were well within normal fluctuations (up slightly). I do not document the results when I check G's auto suggested searches but my guess was that the order of G's auto-suggested results changed. So, although SEO Moz search results still show No. 1 position for the keyword, the other critical question is whether G "randomly" moved the cheese by reordering the suggested search phrases. My $ .02.

Good idea about attributing with rel=canonical. Thanks!

Hi Diane. The Head Metrics site offers A/B Testing. I'll go ahead and explain how A/B Testing works, and I apologize if you already know this information. First let me share this is generally a good tool which webmasters can use to improve their site. It is designed to duplicate a page of your site and allow you to make a modification to that page such as change colors, an image, move content or blocks around, etc. Next, you determine what makes a visit successful on your site. In other words, what is the goal you are trying to achieve? Some examples are to have a visitor fill out a form or add a product to the shopping cart. Once you have decided upon your layout change and the conversion goal, the final step is to begin testing. Roughly half the visitors to your site would see Page A (the original page) while the other half would see Page B (the altered page). You can then determine which page converts better. Based on the results, you can either decide to permanently implement the changes, or to try something else. It is a very effective means of testing. Could this software be used to scrape a page from your site? I am sure it could, but there are an infinite number of scraping tools and this would not be the most efficient method.

This is what I would like to do, as we do not currently sell online. We were not getting a lot lot of traffic from them. So you think it is safe to do 1 redirect from the old domain?

We use a rewrite rule to do this (301) because we want to keep our analytics easier to manage. So for example if I have blog.example.com/,  www.example.com/, and example.com/ all tracked under the same analytics setup, and I am not taking the hostname into account then all of my "/" pageviews are pooled together and I don't know if they are blog or www pageviews. So once I tell analytics to add the hostname to pageviews they come across as blog.example.com/ and www.example.com/, but now I will see www.example.com/ and example.com/ as two different pages in my content reports. So then I need to have the 301 so my data is consolidated correctly. This is why I suggest using 301s where you can. This can get tricky if you have a ton of folders and index pages for those folders, but you should at least be doing this for your home page as it will make your reporting life MUCH easier in the long run. Especially if you aren't tracking across subdomains now, but will want to in the future. If you set it up this way now it will save you some headaches. Hope that helps!

Actually, I saw a couple of those monkeys at a recent MMA event.... again, its a joke.

As mentioned, the keyword is 1.FC Nuremberg which is naturally what users are typing into Google.

This morning google has visited my site. Many thanks for everyone's help. I know it was a huge gamble re-doing my site but i thought in the long run it would be worth it

Stay away, i think we have all been tempted once, but it is not worth it

Hi Keri Thanks for the thumbs up Must be a lot of people out there with the same question; the post on this topic, on my site, gets a lot of visitors. Thanks again.

Hi Francois, I'm looking at older questions that are still unanswered, and wondering if you're still looking for advice, or if you took some action here. Really interested to hear what happened with this site!

It seems that you are focused on "links" but the message from google is all about your "pages" - which you acknowledge are full of "thin" content. I'd start removing pages or start writing new ones.  (Google is VERY clear about what they want you to do.) Lots of ecommerce affiliate sites have fantastic content.  If you are the costume man you should be able to blather endlessly about them with enthusiasm and verve.

If the site were still up, you could verify it in Google Webmaster Tools, put up a robots.txt for that subdomain that excludes crawlers from crawling anything, then go into GWT and request the entire subdomain be removed.

Good answer from Ryan here. Also, see Rand's post about what to do if the "wrong" page is ranking in the results at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions

Hi Matthew, Did this answer your question, or are you still looking for some more advice?

ok so yes its the standard, but does google look at ror? or other key niche news content aggregators? for which it might be important any thoughts?