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Thank you Guys! I resolved the issue! I think it was a caching issue!

This is a popular plugin for managing parameters and faceted navigation in Magento: http://amasty.com/improved-navigation.html. I have read quite a few reviews on this plugin, and it seems to be referenced quite often (however I don't have experience with it). This paired with some robots.txt should do the trick. Hope this helps!

Thanks Jane, That makes everything except possibly the BBB not any good. Glad to know. That pretty much leaves us with content marketing. What's your opinion on the best online guides for developing content marketing in an industry where it's tough to find article niches, i.e. nobody links to the content in our niche. Thanks, I'll close this soon. Bob

As long as the search engine can read all the text, I see no issues.  Modern designers put text in multiple tabs or partially hidden until expanded all the time these to create a better user experience.  It is generally only hidden from the user using css and is fully visible in the code.

I've been using regexpal for a while. I think I like regex101 better.

Hi Adam, Not to point out something that is likely well taken-care of, but did the GA / Analytics code populate across the site? Also, is there any heavy JavaScript on the site, especially above analytics code, that might prevent analytics code from loading properly. We had this happen with a client a few years ago. We built custom analytics for this client (they did not want to run GA). Client placed our code in the footer. Client placed slow-loading CRO code in the header. CRO code took so long to load that people had often clicked away from the page they landed on before our code had had a chance to record their visit, as JavaScript generally loads in the same order as it's placed on the page. We had them move our little piece of code up to the top of the page. Problem was solved (in the mean time, we were recording a 20,000 visit loss each week!). I'm just wondering if this is a tracking issue since all search traffic, not just Google has been affected. It would be quite rare to find an issue that has the same effect at the same time to both Bing and Google's algos. They're similar, but they're not identical and Bing generally tends to take longer to respond to change than Google as well. Any chance you have raw server logs to compare analytics stats to?

Hi, Local Search Volume refers to the estimated amount of search traffic for the given term in the country-specific version of Google that you selected (Ex. Google.ca). Global Search Volume refers to the estimated amount of search traffic for the given term in all of Google's country-specific search portals. (Ex. Google.com, Google.ca, and all other country-specific versions of Google). I hope this helps, have a great weekend! Steffany

No, we stayed with .aspx. I was also told that we received a call from "Google" coming into our main telephone number, and it was an automated call that asked about changes to the site, and if we would like to speak to a live person.  By the time the call was transferred, we lost the call.  (twice.) That could have been someone from Adwords, as I was also reaching out to them about some other things.  The weird part about the call was that the receptionist swears that she heard "We're calling to confirm changes to your site." before she tried to transfer the call to my office. I have never heard of Google calling regarding WMT, or site changes.

Hi everyone We have read through all these comments, but still not sure what to do about this. We do church web design, and our link would be on church websites. That seems relevant to me. These responses go back to 2014. Is there any current advice or information on this topic? Thanks:-)

Hi Sean, Can you submit this as a ticket at help@moz.com with your account and campaign information so we can look into this for you? Thanks, Steffany

301 the old links to the new linking structure. If it is already a high ranking page, the link weight should carry through. Since it already ranks high, I would keep as many elements as you can the same, unless they dont rank well and need to be improved. Make sure to do a site search for indexed pages, and redirect or create a removal request for any unatural cms-generated links. (component/SAMPLE/123456 etc) DO NOT just delete the entire folder without seeing how many on page links still link to those pages. Check your on-page links to see if it is generated by the menu system, or if is hard-coded in the content. Wordpress also has a few items you will want to change in the robots.txt file vs the old Joomla site. User-agent: * Disallow: /feed/ Disallow: /trackback/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-content/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: /wp- Allow: /wp-content/uploads/ Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml Disallow: /wp-content/plugins or you could also use this one: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /wp-content/ Disallow: /archives/ disallow: /? Disallow: ?replytocom Disallow: /wp- Disallow: /author Disallow: /comments/feed/ User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /wp-content/uploads/ User-agent: Adsbot-Google Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Allow: / Hope this helps! Best of luck with your new build.

Modestos wrote a great guide at http://moz.com/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos that can help you with a few things to look for.

It finally updated. The update ran parallel to Google's caching schedule and all the stuff I did in webmaster tools as well as linking/pinging/etc... didn't have any affect. Google's a just a fat donkey... you can crack the whip all day long but that ass ain't gonna move till it's ready to.

Hi Kristina, I would say that while having both terms in the URL is good, there are _so _man more important places for those terms to be used, and so many more important ways in which they can be used to ensure that your site (and the right content) ranks for [marketing success] that you needn't worry about URL structure. The content of those two areas of your site and how they relate to each other are much more important.

It has to be on the homepage and most significant pages of your website. it doesn't hurt to have them on other pages is just that they do it in order to link your website with google plus profiles.

Hi, For you listings the Adress, Phone # and website needs to be exact to what we see on your Google places or FB business page. Also Yelp will not show a listing in Local until there has been a review on that listing. Thanks, Steffany

If there is no relevant new location to 301 to and you are dealing with way too many files to individually 301 them, then you can simply delete them so Google will encounter the 404 error page and remove those files from the index. That being said, if there are any old files that actually rank for search queries and generate organic traffic to your site, then I would recommend at least 301'ing those if possible so you don't lose the traffic as a result of the page being removed altogether.

Greetings Oren, Good question.  We use this tactic a lot with clients and on our own website but we don't necessarily include it on every page or post in an attempt to reduce blindness to the form.  We do it quite often though.  The key is to make sure you don't just thrown the form in there but actually call the reader to action in some way.  ie: "For more information on (what the post topic is about), sign up for our monthly newsletter below:" If definitely improves conversion rate (although I don't have any specific numbers for you) and with the right hook in the call to action is very effective in lead generation, and also classifying your leads into buckets of interest for different types of email campaigns (or whatever).

This does happen. Did any of your competitors also shuffle at that time? As long as you aren't doing anything wrong then it should be ok. You might want to look at your internal linking and links pointing to both pages that makes Google think that that page is more relevant. You could focus a little bit more on the page you want. It should return soon. Ive experienced this before about 8 times this year already. The good page always comes back.