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Agreed here. I'd be much more concerned about the traffic to your site via your analytics program, if you still have the same amount of leads/conversions/sales, etc.

Hi Sika, Your redirects from the .net to the .com site are 302 (temporary) and not 301 (permanent) and is likely the reason your .net urls are staying in the serps. If you get those switched over to 301 then with a little patience all your .net urls should be replaced by the correct .com ones. You can check what kind of redirects you have with various online tools like this one: http://www.redirect-checker.org/

If you are concerned about fluctuations in the search volume there is no 100% accurate way of doing it (that I know of). You can use Adwords keyword planner to see the average traffic by month for a keyword, however this only produces the searches for the exact match that you input. Fortunately you can input multiple keywords, for example if you are looking for the number of searches for an Estate Agents in Springfield you would write in a little list of the likely searches: Estate Agents Springfield Estate Agents in Springfield Springfield Estate Agents And so on, and so forth. You get the idea. This produces a graph which when you hover over the month, it tells you the combined number of searches for your keyword matches (and breaks it down so you can see how much each phrase contributed). What I would do if I was short on time each month is save the list of phrases for each of your keywords in an excel file and check the total search volume at the beginning of each month for the previous month. This will give you a good idea of whether or not the changes you are making are effecting traffic. Understandably this will initially take some time but once the lists are done it is just a case of a quick check each month. Using this with Analytics (and annotations, of course) will hopefully give you the more accurate display of how you are performing against the current and past trends.

This might be a browser issue. Can you try Firefox or Chrome and possibly try logging in through  http://proxy.freya.moz.com/ instead of Moz.com. One of these methods should help! Make sure you have pop up blockers disabled.

thanks Michael ! would be great to have the GWT total in MA reports too for general info, even better if GWT included some sort of link quality metrics as well All Best Dan

It's hard to say without knowing exactly what's been changed on the site/inbound links, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with the backlinks... this graph does not look normal and it appears a lot of backlinks have disappeared in July - https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/?target=www.weddingphotojournalist.co.uk Edit - make sure to select the "One Year" tab for the graph

Yeah, this is a good starting point. Create a sitemap in GWT with just these pages (it's easier to monitor that way), and re-fetch any specific pages that are critical. You can also build internal links (even temporarily) to kick the crawlers or try promoting some pages via Google+. There's no foolproof method, though - just nudges. This assumes, of course, that you've corrected the canonical tags. If there shouldn't have been a canonical tag at all, then I'd recommend adding a self-referencing canonical (i.e. one pointing to the page itself). A new canonical tag seems to overwrite an old one better than just removing, at least that's my anecdotal observation.

Thank you.

Thank you EGOL, all makes perfect sense and I appreciate your reply. I suspect the problems are mostly centered on the hosting issues, with secondary potential robots.txt issues aswell.

With a bounce rate that low, do you by chance have multiple GA tracking scripts, or something that's triggering an event even if no one goes to another page? Look at the source code when you're in incognito mode, in case your CMS suppresses one of the GA codes when you're logged in as admin. [voice of experience and learning the hard way here!]

Do you have implemented the hreflang mark-up? Remember, Googlebot comes from an US IP, hence it will probably will see always the .com general version of the site. If you implement the hreflang, you are telling it what URLs to show depending on the country the visitors performs a search from.

Short answer yes. Google will only read 'x' number of links on a page anyway so too many and they wont even be read by Google. Too many internal links, like a link farm and this will be penalised. Also I would avoid keyword stuffing in your anchor text, as this will look spammy. Great article here on internal link building http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/05/14/how-to-avoid-getting-slaughtered-by-penguin-3-0/ Internal links is great way of helping your users navigate around the site, but use internal links to help people navigate your site and not purely for SEO. If you do it naturally and forget about the search engines you will be fine, its when you try and cheat them it will look spammy and you have the potential to be penalised. When adding a link, ask yourself: Does the user need this link, will it help them on their journey.

Probably to some extend it will be classed as a reciprocal link. But it would have been worse if the same page would have linked back to the Web site that is linking to your page. That's what a real reciprocal link would be.

One thing you might be facing is Google tailoring the search results to what it thinks that you want to see. I would use Moz's rank checker tool to verify the results first, then act from there.

Hi Surfsup, I agree you should concentrate on one domain and agree that it should be the older one. Before deciding on whether to redirect or not, I recommend you profile the links to the site. There might be some good ones that would, as you say, give your elder site a needed boost. If that's the case, you should consider redirects or asking the source to point to your older site directly so the entire link value transfers and can be sustained over time. If you have bad incoming links, then you'll have to weigh the decision to disavow them before redirecting or not bothering to redirect at all.

Hi, For starters you could use the ‘Fetch as Google’ option in Webmasters Tools and see what your page looks like to search engines, or use a tool like browseo.net to do the same thing. Or you could make sure the page is indexable and link to it from somewhere and do a search for “one of your hidden text strings” (in quotes) to see if that content has been crawled and indexed. If you can’t see your content then you may have a problem, and as crawlers can distinguish between hidden and nothidden text it may be more than just blocking your content from helping you rank. It might actually look like you’re trying to stuff keywords into your content without showing them to the user. I think the easiest and simplest fix would be to remove the class which makes these elements invisible, and dynamically add that class with a little bit of jQuery just for users with scripts enabled: This way when a crawler (or a user with javascript disabled) visits your site they will be served the page with the content visible, with it only being hidden if the visitor is accessing the site with javascript enabled. Hope this helps, Tom

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Curious if you ever figured this problem out?