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Hi, I had a similar problem where our homepage was out ranking the target page. It was down to a number of things but mainly the fact that a lot of links using the keyword anchor text were pointed at the homepage. I would be surprised if your new page replaces the homepage in the SERPs soon after launching it. You'll need to do a few things first. Either build new links or get the existing links repointed to your new landing page Make sure your on-page SEO is spot on Use your internal links effectively to point to your new page using the targeted keyword Hope that helps, Brendan.

Just wanted to let you know that submitting all the sites I wanted removed into an XML sitemap worked. I then submitted that sitemap to webmaster tools and listed it in the robots.txt. When doing query "site:domain.com" index pages went from 20k+ down to 700 in a matter of days.

rob is correct, the 15 is only a warning, you can have more if they are natural.

The reason I know for a fact its Panda, is that the site lost its rankings (and thus about 60% of its traffic) end of February 2011. Since then I managed to get slightly better rankings by adding loads of content and rewriting some categories (with thin pages, and not too many sub pages) from the bottom up, however, I never realized I had the content I currently located, which is terrible in terms of quality, and has duplicates all over the web. Like I said, this content dates back to 2006 when I didn't have a clue about SEO. It's not that the content will be rewritten, based on what's there. I just told my writer to write about topic X and topic Y and make it very informative, so I will go from bad to really good pages. Moving the new pages to new locations and getting rid of the others "infected" pages seems the best in my opinion, despite the age of these pages and the occasional link to them. o70cn.jpg

I have just gone to make sure that each post just has one category and add redirects and I've noticed that all the duplicate title issues google has notified me about appear to redirect anyway. For example: http://www.musicliveuk.com/latest-news/who-are-the-most-expensive-wedding-bands and http://www.musicliveuk.com/music-news/who-are-the-most-expensive-wedding-bands have duplicate titles apparantly but the 1st url redirects to the 2nd one. I use the redirection plug in but have no redirection set up for that url so I'm a bit confused. And if they're redirecting anyway then why is google flagging up duplicate titles?

Sorry Matthew, Just got this.  Make sure each attorney has his/her own listing in Places, Bing Business Portal, Yahoo Local. You can also set them up individually in major/local directories or review sites.

Zeke To learn how to use the linkscape/OSE try this article from distilled http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/getting-started-with-the-free-linkscape-api/ SEOMoz has a toolbar just like SEOQuake http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

I would return a 404 as the content no longer exists. If visitors are discovering this page via a link that provides traffic then you need to ask why you are not creating alternative content as a replacement.

I had a competitor that used to make sites like this.  The top navigation would have links to other keyword-rich domains. All of these domains would have identical design so if a  visitor was not paying close attention to the URL he would think that he was still on the same site. This guy had several of these little site clusters. They all disappeared from Google.

Keyword density is a myth. http://www.miislita.com/fractals/keyword-density-optimization.html dont keyword stuff tags like the title with keywords, place the keyword as many times as you want in the document, as long as it is natural.

OK, what advantages if in the future we decide to move the site to the local region e.g Asia ?

I saw another person asking about this same site over at http://www.seomoz.org/q/my-ranking-got-down-from-4-to-9-in-just-2-days. Are there multiple companies working on the same site? You'd want to coordinate with the other company for any working being done so you're not working against each other.

Thanks, Phil! I really appreciate your insights.

The "sold items gallery" would not be redirected and if this gallery was filled with photos of attractive photos and descriptions of the most interesting items that you have sold it could attract links, traffic, likes, tweets and more.  I know of some antique dealers that have huge "sold item galleries" that attract a lot of traffic from interested people.

Its not the correct use of a canonical, but some people do it so if they get their content copied the canonical will point back to teh original. Bing does not like it, they say of you do this on every page they will ignore them along with any canonicals that may be of importance http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/10/06/managing-redirects-301s-302s-and-canonicals.aspx

This post from a year ago might be of interest to you. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928

Well, you should be creating thumbnails of each image(or your gallery script should make them for you). This way the page load is significantly faster. As far as usability, users will much rather see the image gallery on the same page as the article is on. I takes a step out of their research process and thats ultimately the goal.