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Hi Rich, Elaborating on FedeEinhorn’s answer, if the page structure is the same you could just redirect all requests to the same URI on your new domain, as he stated. You could do this very easily with a .htaccess file on the root folder of your old domain (providing you’re running an apache webserver like most people). To redirect using regular expressions and capture groups we can use the RedirectMatch directive, which would look like this: RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com$1 As simple as that, you’ve redirected all existing pages to the same page on the new domain. If you haven't used this before, here's a brief look at how that works for you: Firstly, RedirectMatch simply tells apache we’re using the RedirectMatch directive from mod_alias. 301 specifies a 301 SEO friendly redirect which passes all that lovely SEO juice to your new site. ^(.*)$ is our regular expression. It states, from the start of the requested URI (^) start capturing the request (using the brackets to show what we want to capture), capture it all (with . meaning any character or symbol and the * meaning 0 or more of the preceding . , which will lead to everything being caught by our capture group (the brackets). And the $ meaning the end of the requested URI. The final part of this redirect is specifying the page to redirect to, but as we have captured the request in the previous part, we use $1 to append our first capture (only capture in this distance) to the end of our new domain. If you have completely changed your site, you may wish to redirect all requests to your homepage or another page, it is as easy as modifying the previous code to redirect without appending our capture to the end of your redirection target, so this would be acceptable: RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com But since we don’t need to use anything from the requested URI, we should really remove the brackets (the capture group) for the sake of tidiness, resulting in: RedirectMatch 301 ^.*$ http://www.newsite.com You could use a mixture of these 2 code, for instance if your blog posts are all identical but your main site pages have all changed - this code would redirect all pages starting with /blog/ to their double on the new domain, but redirect all other pages to a /we-have-moved/ landing page: RedirectMatch 301 ^(/blog/.*)$ http://www.newsite.com$1 RedirectMatch 301 ^.*$ http://www.newsite.com/we-have-moved/ Hope that's useful, Tom

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.

Nofollow links still pass some authority, but no where near an in body link.  I commented on blogs like Website Magazine, and a few other real high authority blogs.  I just used my actual name, and didn't try optimize the link. Ranking for web design is definitely a little different because of inflated numbers.  You should also keep in my that link analysis tools, like Moz and Majestic, don't find every link on the internet, and can take a while to discover some links.  Always take these stats with a grain of salt, and focus on getting quality links. If you are working local you can always try identify links pages in your area.  I was able to get one from a couple historical societies and a mall just by asking for it.  You can also have a link in your signature on forums, but try to limit these since too many would look spammy.

Using the noindex,follow combination is a form of advanced page sculpting, which is not truly an SEO best practice. Here's why: If you deem a page not worthy of being in the Google index, attempting to say "it's not worthy of indexing, but the links on it are worthy" is a mixed message. Links to those other pages should already exist from pages you do want indexed. By doing noindex,follow, you increase the internal link counts in artificial ways.

Hey Doug, Smart fellow you are to realize the importance of NAP in this situation. Your best bet is likely to involve: Getting a different suite number for each local-focused business Getting a different phone number for each local-focused business Having a different website for each of the businesses And, of course, each business should have its own name, Google+ Local categories, etc. If the client does not want to work with his post office to get those suite numbers, then he could end up with merging, duplicate and ranking issues that will be no fun!

In a situation like this it is very difficult in my opinion. One thing I was unclear on, does the client own the brand, or are they just a franchisee? That makes a bit of difference as to what I would suggest.

Excellent response Alan!  Thanks

Thanks for the great input. I think we have figured out the issue, at least partially. This particular client had a Google+ page that they had kept up for several years - lots of posts with links back to the website. That G+ page was deleted this past week, which would explain the sudden disappearance of links. I doubt the page was accountable for 4,000+ links, but I'm pretty confident that is where the majority of the decrease came from. Thanks for the help!

AdRoll is the culprit it seems. If you've seen increased spend, contact them, they are quite aware of the issue. More in a new post by Barry at http://www.seroundtable.com/adroll-invalid-traffic-18922.html

just looked again and its now saying 15 so seems to have fixed itself, prob just a short term display issue - thanks for commenting

Well... I can NOT put my recommendation behind this tool just yet but it is worth looking into. We have been messing around with it recently but havent yet decided if we wwill add it to our tool belt. https://www.videolc.com/ But again, give it a shot and see what you think. Might be good, might not. Sorry I can't give a more definitive recommendation. Hope this helps!

Thanks Alan. By direct mail I mean actual post not email but thanks for giving my both options. So I will change them all to 301's then. BigJoe

Hi denverish, The results for now are quite interesting... As I mentioned above I added texts to the category pages which I wanted to turn into landing pages. In one case, I also added NOINDEX to the matching category on the blog and in the others I didn't. The result was that where I added the NOINDEX the blog category obviously disappeared (was mid second page) and an article from deep within the site replaced it - BUT NOT the wished landing page. Keep in mind that the category page on the blog linked to posts that each linked back to the desired category page. The other pages on which I added the texts are gaining real good placements within the SERPS. Most are now on top of page 2 and are tougher phrases. It is as if all of the posts within the category I now "NOINDEX" have lost their weight! I am today planning on removing the NOINDEX and will see in a month or so (hopefully sooner) where I stand. I am surprised from the result!

Hi there, thanks for your question? However, I am not exactly sure what you are asking. Are you wondering if Moz a tool similar to Followerwonk that analyzes blog subscribers?