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Thanks for your answer on this, I think this will be the right road to go down. Alex

Thanks guys, I changed my settings to 10.000 and I can now add extra campaigns!

Orion, Moving/merging one site into another has substantial and long-lasting implications so you do not want to go into that lightly.  It's not necessarily a difficult task, but it is one that takes plenty of planning and forethought.  Most SEOs can tell you many stories of being called to the rescue after a company jumped headlong into the merging of their domains, only to find out that they lost lots of search traffic, lots of links, and/or lots of audience members.  If you don't have an strong need to move forward immediately and you don't have an expert in-house or a contractor to turn to, there's no harm in taking a month or two or three to slowly study up and become your own expert on merging domains/blogs.  You might start with these resources: Moving your site - Webmaster Tools Help Redirection - SEO Best Practices - Moz Cutts excellent video on 301 redirect limits  301 Redirect Relevance And then you might move on to wrap your arms around the information in found in searches such as: merging domains merging wordpress sites

Thanks @Chris, Sounds totally agreed, one has to know first all about their products/services, employees, audience, market, prices, and competition etc.

The exact threshold that Google uses to determine duplicate content is a tricky one. The more important question is, are you noticing a problem? Are both pages being indexed (2013 & 2014)? When you search for the 2014 model in Google, is it showing up in the search results or is it being filtered out as duplicate content? If your content isn't being indexed or isn't ranking, then you have a problem. Panda also can be an issue, but only if a large portion of your site is duplicated. Is this model upgrade process something you apply to 1 or 2 products, or are you talking hundreds? What proportion of your site is nearly duplicate content compared to original content. If the percentage is too large, you could be at risk of Panda. If this is only for a couple of pages, you can always just take a little time to re-write the description from last year to improve its uniqueness, and also bolster the page with unique content like user reviews and new photos & videos of your product. Once a product model is discontinued, you can also 301 redirect it to the newer models.

As you know, many reasons could lead to the drop. I would focus on: 1.) Link Profile: Examine your link profile and try to eliminate any spammy inbound links (email the webmaster/disavow) 2.) Does the landing page closely match on the previous site? If the 301's do work, but content is dramatically different, it will likely cause a drop in organics for that kw. Good luck!

In my opinion Google will look at domains as we humans do. If it looks spammy to us i'd tend to think Google may have the same opinion (or at least be a ranking signal) however, (a big caveat) the site may well host the best content in the world and have some uber immense backlinks and be an authoritative site in which case it should have no trouble in ranking. A domain name in itself wouldn't stop Google letting it in the index - it's the structure of the site (make sure you're not blocking crawlers in robots.txt etc) and the quality of information hosted on it. So in short answer to your question - NO!

Thank you Federico!

Another vote for Yoast SEO Plugin, there is a premium version now, but dont think this means the free is in some form a limited plugin it is still a full featured polished product that works well. (Premium offers better support, and redirect module, which can be used free by another plugin)

I had this issue for the longest time. We would follow all the suggested fixes yet the problem would keep happening. Worked with the Moz help team for some time to find a solution. I was told that the API to GA had some "limits". I believe there could only be 25 calls for the google account. Once you hit the 26th, the first one would loose the connection. Which is what you are seeing with that Moz error message. Sorry this is not the best explanation, I am not very technical. What we ended up doing was creating a new dedicated Moz GA account for each 20 URLs (so we had a bit of wiggle room) we were monitoring and made sure nothing else hit the GA api for those URLs within that account. Havent had a disconnect issue since. Hopefully this helps you as well.

Thanks Martijn. The more I look at it the more I think that it not a good fit in this situation.

You do not have anything to worry about it these links are all no-followed. They are even helpful for the sake of diversifying your no-follow vs do-follow ratios. No follow links have been proven to pass certain metrics to linked sites and this to can be helpful, so I would not change them if it was me.

We've actually seen this kind of behaviour with some of the sites from new clients. They interlinked all their websites, usually with the same templated design. If you didnt get any warning in webmaster tools, this is probably a purely algorithmic issue which is a whole lot harder to get out of. I would look at the other things, technical seo, onpage, content being updated, those sorts of usual seo stuff. You competition might be different now in the SERPS as the keywords you were targeting are now showing different results.

Given that Chrome and most header checkers (even older ones) are processing the 301s, I don't think a minor header difference would throw off Google's crawlers. They have to handle a lot. I suspect it's more likely that either: (a) There was a technical problem the last time they crawled (which would be impossible to see now, if it had been fixed). (b) Some other signal is overwhelming or negating the 301 - such as massive direct links, canonicals, social, etc. That can be hard to measure. I don't think it's worth getting hung up on the particulars of Bit.ly's index. I suspect many of these issues are unique to them. I also expect problems will expand with scale. What works for hundreds of pages may not work for millions, and Google isn't always great at massive-scale redirects.

You missed Casey's most important point, zoomzoom. You say the primary phrase you're targeting on the home page is "3d IC technology". But the only place that phrase exists is once in the meta-title of the page. There's no way a page is going to rank for an even moderately competitive term by only have it in the meta-title. If that phrase is the focus of the page, it should naturally occur multiple times in the copy of the page, in captions, alt tags, etc. Right now, Google has no solid reason to think the page is actually about that phrase. Now, whether the home page is the most valuable one to rank for that phrase is another discussion, but if that's the page you want to rank, you've at least got to use those words on the page! Hope that helps? Paul

One of the example links provided isn't even in the index apparently. I've had that happen to me before.  I usually explain in my reconsideration request that this example is no longer in the index.  But, I also try my best to see if I can find similar indexed links that I have not dealt with.  Usually there are others there. For your search, don't use the link: operator.  Google's link operator does not work well.  The rest of your search should work well, but if your keyword phrase is a popular one then you'll have to be more creative.  Have they used the same username in profiles?  That would be something to search for.