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Unless others have any input, I believe redirects are the sole method of linking to changed URLs. Search engines seem to be quite happy with them.

You may have to get some of those overoptimized external links removed. If you can't get them removed you may have to disavow them in Google Webmaster Tools. Here are some resources for you: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/how-to-disavow-links-0c56a26f http://cyrusshepard.com/boom-1-email-60-bad-links-gone-4-tools-for-easy-link-cleanup/ http://www.rmoov.com/index.php http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool It sounds like your site is being filtered just at the keyword level, which is a good thing. If you had a site-wide penalty for spammy links it would be much more difficult to get your rankings back. Just work on making the old links more natural-looking and removing or disavowing any that you can't make more natural-looking that seem spammy or possibly paid-for. Be ruthless in your culling of these links and you should bounce back within a couple of months.

I doubt very much that an increase in old 404s resulted in a 30% organic traffic drop.  I'd look closely at your backlink profile, competition and page quality to try and diagnose why you saw that drop in traffic. As for the 404s I'd fix those that are fixable and 301 redirect the rest to relevant pages (or the home page).  If the number is extremely large then you should put a high priority on fixing this.  Otherwise I haven't met a site that Google couldn't find a 404 error on.  And yeah, they keep telling you about the same ones! Hope that helps! Jacob

Hi and thanks for your response. I'm not sure Google Webmaster Tools takes into consideration a person's IP address when they list Google rankings for a website in Google Webmaster Tools. These rankings are linked to Google Analytics for a client website.

Hi inhouseninja, To be straight what I experienced over such same situation is that Bing/Yahoo really works slow to consider newer website pages or new changes in the domain to get indexed or ranking in their SERP listings. Best, Teginder

So, first off, let me say that this isn't always a bad thing. Less indexed content, if much of your content is duplicated (or nearly duplicated) could actually improve the ranking of the rest of your content. More pages isn't better. On the other hand, it's one thing when you proactively remove content from the index - it's another when Google does it for you. Are you seeing any patterns? As Chris said, it could be that your internal linking changed, or it could be that Google sees these pages as duplicate or low-quality and has removed them or implicitly canonicalized them (we're seeing more of that - it's like you have a rel=canonical on the page, but you don't). The other issue could be if there are duplicates on other site across the web, causing your copy to be filtered out. Either way, you have to find out which pages are impacted and figure out the pattern. Do you have XML sitemaps? A well structured set of sitemaps can help you get a better sense of which pages are being indexed.

Thank you David !

Thank you for the reply. But i seen some authors who are (?) send similar article or post content to me for getting a Backlink. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en After this, i don't know what i have. For the purpose of Do-follow to the advertiser link and remove them who paid for me ! I am new to this and earning only from this !

Evgeny, Instead of just writing it out for you, here is the easy way to get see the code set up in a situation like you have. Schema.org/Place The first example (scroll past the definitions) seems to fit your selling a product in a specific area. If you do not have a SF or a Chicago address, do not use that. For the region, you will still have either CA or IL. Make sure you limit it to those pages where you are focusing on those markets or you will affect others that you did not want to affect. So, if you are trying to sell all over US but have products that are specific to these areas, you need specific pages for these. Hope that helps you out, Robert

Makes me want to re-train as a dentist in London, that's crazy and I'm speaking as a person who chipped their tooth today! As Jesse says.... go!

I agree with all colleagues above, I cant see how your web site will be penalised due to lots of pages uploaded at the same time. However Adding Too Many Pages Too Quickly May Flag A Site To Be Reviewed Manually. This means thought that you will add hundreds of thousand of link a night. Here is the related via by Matt Cutts: http://searchengineland.com/google-adding-too-many-pages-too-quickly-may-flag-a-site-to-be-reviewed-manually-156058 Hope you find this useful!

You will have to refer to the 'multi week' update which was implemented on about June 24th. These changes affected PMD a lot and then recovered a bit on/after July 4th. You will have to figure out what is going on with your on page optimization, links and so forth.

Chris Thank you for all of your help.

Hello everyone,  Dana, Moosa, Francisco. Thanks so much for your input, I really appriciate it I have come to a point where I need to make a decision: My brand is a South African Band, but we target an international clientele. Should I buy the .COM  or the .CO.ZA ? We would like to rank for mostly other countries, but south africa is important too. Thanks, Best Regards Nikita

My experience is the average to the public e-commerce sites are that, but other like b2b sites mid week is busier,  but mostly all are quieter at the weekend.  But granted that different sectors will be.... different

Yes it helps. Some have seen 150% improvement http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/04/27/want-a-150-boost-in-traffic-then-use-this-idiot-proof-guide-to-google-authorship-markup/ There is a great article on the Moz bog on how you even need to optimize the picture http://moz.com/blog/google-author-photos Don't wait - do it!

Sub domains are considered as unique domains in Google so at the moment your subdomain is not passing any link juice to your main domain. 301redirect from sub domain to subfolder might not pass all the link juice but still a better option for you as currently you are not getting any juice from your blog.

Sounds like a very well reasoned response. Thanks for the follow up!

Mum ... I never really looked this as a problem until the last Google updates. So if I got it properly: Keeping one link on the home may not hurt my website (now) Keeping the footer link on all website would be the last thing to do Keeping the link in nofollow can bring me some new customers (now) and penalize my site soon I think I'm going for the nofollow option now. What do you think ?

As Egol said, people might not be bidding on it. That explains the lower cost. As you are looking at those data for different purposes other than PPC ads, make sure you look at the right metrics; don't rely only on those data as they could mislead you.