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I was caught up in the wording. OSE lists the number of internal and external links for a website. But you also have to factor in where they are linking to. Links to spam sites is not a site you want to be associated with.

Hi Tom, I would never throw away traffic unless it came from a "questionable" source. If the reason for the domain switch is because the domain more accurately reflects the client's business, then the existing traffic is also likely to be relevant. This gets you "one foot in the door" in terms of conversion. If you still have the existing site loaded, then you are in a good position, because you already know the URL and content of the existing pages. My recommendation to the client would be to do the work to salvage the existing traffic for the domain. How well you do the job will depend on how large the existing site is, how much traffic it has and how much work the client is willing to pay for, The process would be to add 301 redirects for all existing URL's on the new domain (that will not exist once the new content is added) in addition to 301's for all of the pages on the domain that you are transferring from. The best way to do this is to ensure that each is redirected specifically to a page containing content that is relevant. Obviously, if the old site is large and/or the budget is small, this will be more work than you are getting paid for. In that case, you have the option of redirecting groups of pages to a relevant category page, or in the easiest, but least advisable, just redirect them all to the home page. If the existing traffic to the new domain is insignificant, then you shouldn't lose too much sleep over just redirecting them all to the home page, but if there are some visitors there, I would explain to the client that sending them to a relevant page gives him a chance of converting them. If you choose not to redirect any of the pages you are just setting up a situation where you constantly play "catch up' on the 404's - you cannot know how long it will really take for every link in existence to be clicked by someone. Don't forget that the biggest link source will be indexed pages in search engines. These don't always get de-indexed in the time frame we expect, so there is no correct time period within which links will just go away. I wrote a blog post on this recently after doing a "salvage' job for a client whose designer installed a new site version and killed off all his old pages without redirecting anything. While your situation is different, It talks about redirecting for relevance, so might be worth a read. Hope this helps Sha

Thank you for confirming my suspicions.

Affiliate programs Social media profiles that will provide you both no follow and follow links (You actually need both because if all Google see's are follow links then they know you're trying to spam the system) StumbleUpon, Google+, Twitter, WikiPedia, Flicker etc Link Baiting

click to read full transcript, using CSS or JS would be better. So the content is shown once the user clicks the link.

Hi Tyler. Both the links you offer are to Dr Pete's profile page. I am presuming this response was shared with you for your private Q&A? As a follow up to you or Dr Pete I would ask the following questions: Would you agree the best method of redirect would be at the server level? If so, would you agree that once a redirect is implemented at the server level there is no reason to keep the old page on the server, and that even if the old page was kept it would never be seen or crawled as long as the server redirect was in place? If the answer to both of the above questions is yes, then it is in perfect alignment with the information I shared. If the answer is "no", then I would have further questions based on the response. What method are you using for the redirection? The first response I shared specifically clarified it was for a server (htaccess) redirect. I use that example since it is the most common form in my experience, but there are other ways to do it. Thank you for sharing the reply. So far it sounds like it affirms the response I offered.

Thanks for the input. I like the idea if hiring local and hadn't really considered it since I didn't want to narrow my options. But Seattle seems like a good place to get quality SEO.

Thanks Man that helps a lot. We will implement asap and see if it takes care of the problem. Have a great weekend.

I hope that was the issue. Comparable things have happened to me and it's the worst when you have to spend endless hours trying to figure out why you are having issues.

Thanks for the input John, Considering im on .co.uk & .com is unavailable Based on your suggestion I think its best that I create a another website using .ru & best to build that... Cheers..

Rich snippets are not guaranteed to be shown, indeed you have to be a bit of an authority in your field for them to show (easier if you're location dependent). I'm not sure if Google is showing rich snippits for adult products though (and I'm not going to start searching to find out, lol) Read the FAQ - http://knol.google.com/k/google-rich-snippets-tips-and-tricks#Frequently_Asked_Questions - sign up to the program - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/request.py?contact_type=rich_snippets_feedback - (you seem to be outputting data okay though it may struggle with non-Latin characters) and see what happens. Do you need a rating system to show up?