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Kevin, As far as I know the domain and content are the same. The site went live March 19. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks, Holly

I actually have another client who's high volume keyword rankings went down around those dates as well. Now its just amazon, staples, and the other big companies in their market on the first page. But at least Google is letting me rank on the low volume keywords for that client. It's more than I can say for Pets Spark.

Then I wouldn't mess with a .co unless you wanted to buy up all the TLDs for you brand name. For instance, if I were HP, then I would get HP.co for trademark reasons.

my domain.com/sitemap shows all without www but I had .htaccess rewrite on and forwarded all nonwww to www just about 2 days back. Ranking didn't seem to have affected much as of now - please help.

I appreciate the synopsis and the good feedback. In our case, we feel that we have a very strong ability to guide users to the site of our choice.  Local seems like a misfire for a global software company. Since there doesn't seem to be a loud consensus that we should be working with any specific site at the moment, I think we'll send reviewers to BBB, since customers sometimes tell us that is an important trust signal for them.

Thank You Devanur for your reply.

Ok, understood. Is there an easy way to get a list of the top URLs for that specific keyword without having to eyeball the actual results in the search results. I'm looking for a simple way to organize the top results. I hope this makes sense. For example: Keyword A domain.com_1/page_a domain.com_2/page_a domain.com_1page_b domain.com_3/page_a Thanks!

Nikhil, from the screenshot I can see that you have no errors. So, it might be a temporarily glitch.

That is unusual thing for me also i didn't expect something like this to be happen with the website .But it was happen!!. I changed the website design and lay out very seo friendly and as I mentioned in the question that website is performing good but not as previous. I am looking for some suggestion here to improve it little more . Thanks

If that were the case, I'd certainly apply for white listing.  I could charge my clients for getting them white listing too.  I might even start a poker site and see if I could get that white listed! No, really, I've never heard of such a thing. It's all algorithmic.

+1 to avoiding iframes altogether

Hi Kevin, Thank you for your reply. I'm trying to understand how Google views URLs with # anchors as external links and how it passes value (i.e. PageRank), rather than how they index pages with # anchors. Sorry if that was unclear. Do you have insight into this question?

Thanks! Well I would not think this abnormal if it was a shift between a few position.. Even to 25.. But as an example today i have had about 20 KW out of my list of 150 that went up 197 positions EACH back to their regular or better 2-6 ranking then  I have another 40 KW that are still further at a ranking of 200 or further. Every day is about the same yo-yo effet. I do see a general drop as well with some KW that slowly went down the 25.. So it feels like I am getting hit by some kind of weird randon update. But I am also wondering if this has to do with my ranking tracker.. Organic traffic is down 47% to LY for march...  I am trying to get it better, but it is hard to keep track of progress with such variations.. Id love to hear if anyone knows more about this case..

Hi Ivgi, I'm responding on this thread rather than on the first one I responded to. I received the email you sent me and took a very quick look at your company's website. Within the scope of Q&A, I'm afraid no on can do your keyword research for you - that's a big process that will require an investment of multiple hours of time. What I can do is give you my honest take on your situation in hopes that it will help your company to make a good decision. I think there is a lack of clarity in the business model. I am not familiar with the online shopping business model and have not worked with this type of business before, but it seems to me that if your company only delivers groceries to two places, then you aren't just an 'online grocery delivery', you are in some way a local business. I'm not positive about this, but whomever handles the work for your business needs to totally clarify what the business model is. You've stated that you deliver to two cities. Then I see something on the site about nationwide delivery. Which is it? The website is not giving me any type of value proposition. Why should I be shopping online? Why should I be shopping online with your company? What is the value? How do I get groceries? Who delivers them, when, etc? The site isn't telling me. The website copy needs a complete overhaul. It appears to have been written by an ESL copywriter, and as the audience is likely to be primarily speaking English as their first language, the problems with the copy will not instill trust in the quality of the business. It may be that the overall architecture of the website needs to be re-done, and for sure, the company needs a clear strategy for exactly what they are doing. The front entry page appears to indicate that there are 2 different sections to the site, one for each city. But what about the nationwide offer? These are just a few of things I see in my brief glance at your website. It is my belief that your company's success depends on hiring a professional SEO and Usability team to do a complete audit of the website and create and implement a strategy, based upon market research, that will enable the business to clarify is model, message and promotion options. If they are expecting you to do this in-house, and you are, as you say, a beginner, then the company's expectations are not on-track. I would strongly urge the business to choose the very best firm they can afford. You need real pros to do this right...perhaps check out the list of recommended companies here on this website. http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended I hope my suggestions are useful. I truly do believe that your company needs expert assistance with their online marketing and should not be expecting an in-house novice to get them results. That is too much responsibility to put on one staff member's shoulders, given the size, scope and needs of the website and the business.

You may have to look at alternatives where you can increase search visibility such as targeting keyword phrases that are not triggering local search results. Instead of focusing on popular keywords you may want to focus on longer tail keywords using Ubersuggest or Google's "Related Searches." You could answer a lot of frequently asked questions about the industry. In my experience most questions do not trigger the local search results unless they involve an element of location in the question.

Hi There I agree with Matt but would go one further and say also take a look at your title tag AND look at implementing things like opengraph on your site - you haven't mentioned social media but it could be a great thing to dip into. Something we found when optimising a similar site for one of our clients is that Rich Snippets do work quite well - they seem to drive forward terms such as the car model name and brand names more than anything - it's also probably a safe bet that relatively few of your competitors use it and so worth getting ahead with. cheers

Honestly speaking your website have tons of problems that might take your website to the spotlight and then Google took you down somewhere... here are the things that you should change immediately or may be heir some SEO to fix at least the one time problems so that things can work out well for you! In the single look to your website, you probably need to change your title, title your images, add some content to the page if possible and fix almost all technical stuff of the page and then we can start looking in to off-page and link related problems.

Hi Miriam, Thank you very much for this detailed answer. You made some very interesting points here, made me think What i am looking for are businesses that provides online Local grocery services ( shopping and delivery) for DFW area (Dallas Forth Worth) Can you suggest the best way to type it? And after that - what i should find is, if this is the way most if the people will search in Google For their local online grocery shopping & delivery company Thank you again ivgi

Perfect. Thank you!!!

Thanks Dan, I doubt it'll be my browser as I've been really careful on that. The rest of what you've suggested all seems plausible to me but I'm curious to know how long major changes to a site related to SEO can take to settle-down. Should we do nothing and give it a week, or should we wait longer than that?