Welcome to the Q&A Forum

We did some experiments: One website was #1 for certain keyword for one location. Then we created different website for for same industry in different locality. We linked from main website to new website and surprisingly for same keyword the new website did show up on the first page even though it is more difficult locality to grow in. What I'm trying to say if there is new domain perhaps it won't be bad idea to put a link to new website from Main site. Of course it is up to you.

On a branded term you typically get quadruplets.

I agree with you and thank you for your answer but at the same time i am more worried abt the structural standpoint - as i responded above to one of the replies - use the example with the hospital A hospital may target very general related keywords but then it may offer very specific services and programs that are all indirectly related. Now those programs are very niche related and specific for certain types of surgeries and services offered, they contain a lot of information and can be expanded way above the 10 pages mentioned. Now the question is what do you do in that case? You'd rather have 5 sub folders divided in other 20-30 categories and subcategories? Or you would rather have them structured in a better way on a sub-domain? What would be your choice in this case?

Any links gained to the sites in strategy 2 will be shared and only benefit those sites Any links gained in strategy 1 will benefit the whole domain. A brand new site can take a while to gain decent rankings although it may have the advantage of a keyword matched domain name. Hope this helps.

Honestly, no idea. What I would be "comfortable" with personally would be no more than 20.

I assumed that if he has a blog then he must have some content in it i have'nt looked at his site. And Chad, other search engines are like google they like good quality fresh content

Try putting the URL into Google and see if you find any pages linking to it. I knew a company that created a test site that was a copy of a live site (made with a specific hosted CMS). Didn't exclude the test site in robots because "we all know we won't link to it so it'll be ok". Site got indexed, and it was because a person at the company was having problems with the implementation of the test site, went to the help forum (which person didn't think would be indexed) and posted the URL to the test site. I found the above by just putting in the URL of the test site into Google, and I saw the post in the help desk. You might try the same to see if somehow there is a rogue link.

As per our experience, results in google can be seen fairly quickly couple weeks however bing and yahoo probably takes 3-4 times longer.

Thanks Lewis, Hurts a bit as it is for alot of my targeted keywords. Is there anything i can do to get the rising again? I need to sort out 301 redirects on my duplicate index pages which i think will help. Any other suggestions and quick fixes?? Cheers

I agree with what David said. Also, Google says they do not want to index search results in their search results. I'm unclear how this would be implemented, but you do also want to think of what is a useful results page for your searchers, and will a q=keyword result provide a better or worse results than /biology. I worked for a site that included (among other things) lesson plans. There was one for physics that didn't require calculus. If you did just a keyword query for calculus, you would get the result for that physics plan, as the description included the word calculus.

Have you looked at which pages the falls in visitors are on or is it spread across the whole site? Can you see if certain keyphrases are particularly affected. You are obviously monitoring traffic but are you monitoring rankings? Did Google News previously send a lot of traffic? Are you still a Google News source? Without more information and access to the analytics it is difficult to give a definitive answer. If it happened at the time of the panda/farmer update then I would suggest that perhaps the sites you have links from have been devalued.

Thank you again. I very much appreciate your time and help! Alicia