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I would make sure when you do those searches that you are logged out of everything, using IE (I know, that is ridiculous, but trust me on that one) and have deleted all of your browsing history. You can change your search settings to not display local results, or you can change your location in your search settings if you wanted more local results. What your saying does make sense. I have no idea if a tool like this exists, I really don't think it does unfortunately. It is so hard to predict a SERP that I don't know how someone would create a program to do it. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Good Luck!

At a fundamental level, you are keeping the data somewhere and it is rendered correctly. In a CMS this data is stored in a database completely outside search engine view. So it does not matter if it is in database or in physical directory somehow. So there is no benefit in keeping the structure same physically. Having said that and my own experience (we manage website with millions of pages) managing this using HTACCESS script is NOT a good idea. You will be limited by what you can do and maintaining will be quite challenging. I strongly suggest consider moving to a CMS (like drupal) and store all you content inside a database and the CMS script takes care of HTACCESS plus gives other goodies. There are several tool available to get your content from disk into a database.

Nope, This seems kind of normal. Organic traffic can be coming from Bing and Yahoo also. I think you are fine. I noticed a jump in rankings also. That is why you want to make sure you don't drop below your lowest average, if you do then you might see a dramatic decrease in your rankings when everything settles down.

Hi there! Rogerbot can't actually be told to crawl at a specific time. However, if you're finding that he is crawling your site too aggressively you could set up a crawl delay in your robots.txt file to set the number of seconds between requests to the same server.

Not a problem! Good luck!

There was a time when such huge influxes of links meant nada to Google et al...my own blog site went up 25k in one day and didn't hurt us a bit (story here ) but that may not be true today.... And as others have said, there's not enough data here to make a valid opinion as I see it....i.e. we need more to try to help, eh!

No problem, Good Luck!

+1 what Martijn says. Even though the pages have no traffic, Google may still be crawling them if they have links so there may still be some equity in keeping them. If this is a concern you can redirect them to the most relevant (quality) page on your site. If it's only a few pages this is fine but any more than a few they might come up as "soft 404s" in Google WMT. You can check if Google is crawling the pages by checking your web logs. That said, if the content is of no value and they don't have any decent links then I would just delete them and move on. Regards, George

Hi George, wow, I never thought id see a break down of info so detailed for the website. It makes things alot easier. Screamingfrog is amazing. confirmed it showing www.finnmoto.com.au as status code 301. most pages are 200 (ok) can clearly see I need to work on metadescription, H1 and H2, eventually clean up metakeywords. ill need to learn more about directives; canonical, canonicalised, etc... everything else looks pretty good I guess. Your not wrong about the dust settling; submited 115 urls 26th oct. google has only index 46 urls 30th oct. (in webmasters the www. is showing 101 indexed of 115). should I be turning off the www. in google webmasters now, or just leave it and wait.

We've also seen some drops across our website and our competitors domain authorities. Glad its not just our market.

Did you mean that you want to get your new links to get indexed? Send good links (not just bookmarks)  to them, that'll work. I can't really recommend the old school (when they send a new link 200 bookmarks) way of getting links indexed.

Hmm that is very weird. Does that also occur in another browser? Do you have any extensions or plug-ins you can disable to see if it will appear?

Terrific, thanks! And combining the redirects quoted in that post . . . how should that be done correctly?

SearchMetrics would be a good place to start - you won't get individual keyword historic performance but it will show your website's overall SEO visibility over time. Particularly useful for tying in with Google algorithmic updates. George

Hi Garret, I have some questions and then some thoughts for you: Where was the listing ranking before you claimed it (what letter)? Where did it rank after you claimed it (what letter)? When you say it is showing up in Google Maps, what position does it have in the list view? Is there any chance that claiming the listing might have drawn Google's attention to the accidental existence of you having more than 1 listing in existence for this business? Have you searched for duplicates? How good is the client's organic authority? Did you notice a general ranking shift at this time for any of the client's competitors? Could Google have coincidentally been reordering results at the time you claimed the listing or has everybody else in the pack stayed in about the same position? Some ideas: read through this article to check off potential issues with ranking failures: http://moz.com/blog/troubleshooting-local-ranking-failures The other thing I'm thinking of hearkens back to my early days in Local SEO. It seems to me that I remember instances in which a newly claimed listing would appear high in the packs for a brief period of time, then fall off to a much lower position and then would have to climb back up the rankings based on effort/strength. I haven't heard this phenomenon being mentioned in many years, but I wonder if it might still exist here and there. I'd highly advise looking into the duplicate listing possibility and do go through the article I've linked to:)

Link Exchanges have become a thing of the past as far as a direct link exchange (put your link here and I'll put your link here) and could harm your website. Here is another Q&A Forum asking if link exchanges are good or not and another one that may be helpful. To be safe and utilize link exchanges in a white hat, clean, relevant way, I believe mutually agreeing to linking to certain articles can be considered safe. Creating another article linking to your article (or blog) is what I mean or editing an existing article to add value. I don't think just having a random link in the footer or some place else on the website provides value is what I'm saying. You may know all of this, but someone will come along questions link exchanges and provide insight anyways. As well, I think it can establish a ground for this conversation of seeing relevant, high QUALITY content. I will take a look at your content and private message you if that's okay. Thanks, Cole

Well, I would add the conversion rate optimization does not necessarily have to mean "get the user to buy something." It could be to make a phone call, signup for a newsletter, etc. So, it really is about choosing something you want a user to do, implementing a strategy to get the user to do that...then seeing what percentage of users actually do...then improving it as best you can (most likely through A/B testing). Website optimization...I don't think it has a standard definition. Monica said "umbrella term for SEO and CRO" and I guess that works, but I've heard it relate to a number of other aspects like site speed and social media plugins. I view it more as a buzzword for marketing companies to sell their "all-in-one" campaign packages than something with a specific definition. Best, Ruben