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Thank you. I've struggled with it only to realise I was issuing the wrong keyword.

Hi I know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to follow up in case you were doing this again in the future. There will always be high volume queries out there, but your goal with starting a campaign for one product is likely to make sure that product is a viable source of profit. I would suggest starting out with the most specific queries first, then moving "up the funnel" to more vague, less specific queries. This doesn't even have to be done all at once. This can be done in stages if you are trying to launch fast. So if you're selling a specific electronic device, you can start with the specific model number, then to the most common name for that specific device (in the case of Phones, you could call it the G3 instead of LGVX####), then to manufacturer and the most general of queries (like "new phone").

Chris Thank you for your help it is much appreciated.

PS - While you cannot use tools alone to evaluate something so subjective, you can use them to speed up the process. If you have been tracking the performance of your site in Google Analytics, you may want to start there, and use your analytics to identify your best and worst performing pages based on your unique goals (that this, what you are hoping to accomplish with your content). You can identify duplicate content and poorly optimized pages with Moz Analytics, as well as identify the pages that are earning the most (and least, if any) natural links. For details on how to do an in-depth content audit, see http://moz.com/blog/content-audit-tutorial. Hope that helps!

Works just fine for me Somtimes it indeed also blocks GA scripts.

Also don't overthink to much on the priority.  Set your changefreq to the appropriate (this signals google to crawl this pages more often or nog) Its a mistake to set this very with the idea, "i need to get my site crawled as much as possible". For unchanging content this can be a wrong thing to do and will affect your score negatively. But google states on this document that its not effecting your ranking at all.

As you clearly want to put ads on these pages, then I would expect that youll be sending it  organic traffic. Then just make the content a lot better. Why settle?

Point well made.

Marcus...that should'a been "...the ever DEPENDABLE Phil Rozek..."

Dennis, thanks for taking the time to write me. I have checked internal issues and couldn't find anything that would cause a drop. I did however see that I lost some links over the past few weeks, and I need to investigate that to figure out what happened. I realized that we lost visitors gradually since sept 21 but last sunday was when traffic completely dropped.

Thanks for your help guys.

This has been such a great thread, I decided to add a little more information on my problem redirect and a personal theory.... When I redirected domainA.com to keyworddomain.com, domainA.com had been on the web for nearly ten years with #1 rankings for its products for almost that entire time,  The domain had lots of mentions had, lots of domain queries and a great history with google. When you do a 301 redirect, I believe that only redirects a fraction of your assets.  It is only a mechanical redirect of the file names on your server and search engines know how to follow it and attribute links. However, I do not believe that a 301 transfers all of the mentions of your brand that appear on other sites or the domain queries that you have been receiving, any social value and other off-page assets that search engines might give you credit for.  (I don't know what they can do about local, since that is never a concern for me.) So the more work you have put into your site related to branding the greater your loss will be when you walk away from the domain.  When I put my site up on keyworddomain.com Google's followed the 301s but had every right to ask.... "WHO IS THIS?"... This new domain was a Nobody. No one asks for it  by name through the google seach box, nobody is typing the domain in the address bar of the Chrome browser, the name is not mentioned in association with all of my products on many other websites, in blogs and in forums.  I lost all of those assets and that is why I personally believe the rankings dropped. Robert gives great suggestions for an attempt to reclaim some of these "other offsite assets".  I think he has good ideas that I did not do. People rarely if ever talk about these "other offsite assests" so we are ringing their bell here.

Hi Thomas, I would just look at the redirect's link profile. If there's nothing shady with it's links, then there's really no problem. Redirects are actually really awesome. The biggest ecom sites use it often.

This makes sense, and is a good way of framing it. Thanks very much. Your answer here made me see that my two tests (Indianapolis and Rossville) actually showed somewhat different algorithm principles. I understand that with the increase of mobile and thus 'conversational' voice searches, the inclusion of a place name is less and less common. Thus with the 'Rossville' example, since 'Rossville' is ambiguous and was not differentiated from other Rossvilles I can see how others might creep in. Even so, I would think Google would be programmed to first see that my location is set in Rossville, IN, and thus conclude that Rossville, IN must be the one I'm referring to. If every search was done on mobile, then I can maybe understand seeing Rossville, PA, and Rossville, GA in the SERPs. But even then, not in position 1 and 2 before Rossville, IN, where I am located... So, when I specified a very unambiguous place name (Indianapolis), while my location is set to that same unambiguous place (Indianapolis, IN), would Google's algos look outside of Indianapolis, like it did with Rossville? It turns out the inverse process is happening here (I think). I went back to look at the results for 'foundation repair indianapolis' and found that the listings were extra-localized, starting with businesses that have an indianapolis address, and moving concentrically outward from there. But again, we rank highly when location is set to Indianapolis, IN, and simply search 'foundation repair'. Apparently in this case, when a search string does not specify disambiguated place-names, Google produces items related to {foundation repair} in the general vicinity of {indianapolis}, based on the inferred location data, instead of the other approach which yields limited results within the city. This is surprising to me (though beneficial to us). I'm probably constructing too detailed of a process here based on just a couple small tests. I'd love any other input. And sorry for the novel!! I'm trying to work all this out. It's an interesting discussion though. I hope it's helpful to someone in the forums.

Great answer! I noticed SS assign images to their own pages. Is there a "best practice" for addressing this? Should I try to exclude the pages from being indexed?

Hi Erin, I have a similar problem with HubSpot they have Page Titles all the same which we an only set once for Blog Topics. So all the Blog Topics are "Know-How Makes the Difference" (Marketing!). Hubspot then set each Topic page's canonical link to point to the main blog page, however Moz picks up that all of the topic pages have duplicate titles. Does this effect ranking in any way? and is it right that Moz points this out since the canonical link is set? Any clarity here would be much appreciated. Dave

Hi Josh! Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Help Team here at Moz. It looks like you've been working with David and Michael on this, and I'm really glad to see that you've brought this question to our awesome community! While we're able to tell you how our site detects duplicate content, advising you on how to implement strategy on your site is a little out of our realm of expertise. I'd have to be a web dev or a consultant to point you in the right direction, and the truth is I was a history major. Sorry we don't have more resources for you on this one! It's my hope that someone here in the community has some insights for you. I'll leave this question as "unanswered" in hopes that someone has some advice. Good luck, and have a wonderful weekend! Erin

Hey, I did a quick run through your homepage and it looks like you have no Open Graph tags,  No Schema Markup,  You Meta title is way to long try to say as short and concise as possible. You have no meta description which is your marketing call for the consumer to click on your link in google's search results. You have WAYYYYY to many 's you should only have 1,  you should make the rest Consider adjusting your Alt Text so that they actuall describe all your images because currently they all say "link to video" which is spaming Hope this helps and is a great start