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Yea I guess we'll see. Thanks for the input.

It definitely shouldn't be harmful but is most likely unnecessary. This is the code to verify your website in Google Webmaster Tools. It looks like it's verified for two different accounts. You should only need to verify on one and then you can add users from the dashboard inside webmaster tools, instead of having multiple verification codes.

What environment is the site built in? Normally, you build the microdata markup into the site template, this way no hard-coding of individual microdata is needed. If you're on WordPress, there are plugins for that.

Thanks everyone for you giving me your viewpoint. I was particularly interested with MorganNw answer, but I have not found any data to support this (as much as it would have been great if it was like that!)

You've taken good steps so far and kudos for continuing to put time and effort into the cause. Great collective feedback. Additionally, have you run a keyword density tool on the home page? Your other top level pages are good candidates as well. Check All Text and Headlines. Other SEO's can chime in but rule of thumb has been no higher than 4% keyword density on a page. A high density in Headlines could indicate an issue as Headlines has historically been a key component in Google's algorithm. I haven't studied at this granular level but others may have. All the best.

Hi Nicolaj, I am happy I could be of help. by the way, GetFlywheel Can put you in a Singapore data center. the crawl links you can click on the arrow for more information for instance your pointing Google at a non-indexed page with the canonical tag this is just an example of what you can see http://crawl.blueprintmarketing.com/report_grid/page/64074/broken_links/3c831296fb7d673c6e34da4b56b1fe09f95b6ae7 All best, Thomas

They are changing from what old format to what new format? Sometimes, if there is logic to the URL structure, you can handle thousands of redirects with only one line of code called a regular expression.

Hi Mason, you've received some good responses. Did one or both clear things up for you? If so, please mark one or both as a "good answer". If not, let us know where you need clarification, and we'll do our best to help! Christy

Thank You Highland. That is what I am looking for.

Hi Robin Are you all set with this? Martijn has the right idea. You can add these as attributes to your markup to make the errors go away and get the implementation perfect. It's probably not hurting SEO though. You can find the documentation for hentry here: http://microformats.org/wiki/hentry

Hi James, If you can redirect the pages from the old site that are no longer needed, to the same or similar on the new site, then I would do a 301 redirect. You are still sending users to where they are looking to go and will pass along any rankings to the new pages. In general you don't want 404 pages on your site, so if you have pages that are not relevant on the new site, or if say they are products you do not offer any longer then I would use the GWT URL removal tool and have those pages removed from googles index so they do not come up in search results. Hope that helps.

I will check all the landing pages for this, and see if it helps. Thank you for your feedback

I think it might be possible to get penalty from bolding. I started to appear/disappear yesterday with my both main keywords on homepage. It kept doing that every few mins until today, disappeared and not any signals to come back. Both keywords was bolded in the first paragraph. Keyword density is ok. My backlink anchors are fine and i don't think it is because of them. Still, made some moves and changed exact match keywords to my domain/url ones on some websites. Homepage is still ranking for its other keywords, where is also those main keywords inlcuded as a long tail ones. So everything else seems to be good at the moment. I wonder if i manage to come back soon.. Any thought?

Thanks Mck and Dough.

Get the demo version of screaming frog, run a crawl and you'll find nearly everything I mentioned above.

Thanks - yes, i wish our keword was shorter, but longnameing-blog/ seems over the top, and /idea-blog/ sounds assinine

Of course, your conclusion can't actually occur until you see the outcome in Google.  Everything else is just speculation. I'll take a crack at it though, and say that your local result is not necessarily an indication that your organic is soon to return to previous levels. If, for example, your strong organic results were due to a great link on a strong site and your reduction in rank was due to the disappearance of that link, not to a penalty of any sort, you may still show up well in the local results but organically, you just don't have the umph, any more. Only time may tell. In the mean time, make it even more difficult to tell by building new linking relationships and reaching out to your social media audience as much as possible.

Ahh I get it now, redirect every URL from the old site to its homepage. Makes sense! For point 2) I meant the URL Removal tool to de-index the whole site but this would no longer be needed if I apply the above suggestion. Thanks a bunch!

Also make sure that no one in WMT has checked the box to remove the site from Google's index. Doing so will usually result in a warning, so it's unlikely you wouldn't have seen it. The only thing you mentioned that I'd look into more would be the hosting change, but that impact should have been more or less immediate. Are you receiving any organic traffic from Google? A huge drop could mean a lot of things, but 0 traffic usually means a technical issue is to blame. If you've just lost most of your traffic, it's possible that it's a penalty or algorithm adjustment of some sort. There are a few directory links that I'd be concerned about, and I'd disavow any questionable sites with sitewide links (I saw at least one). It could also be a Panda or a "Payday" adjustment. Check the algorithm history and see if it aligns with your drop in traffic: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

I am happy they are now followed, I am sure when I previously checked they we no followed, no just to get a link