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Hi Tom! It looks like Joel is waiting for a reply from you on the ticket you sent in so you guys can continue the conversation there Thanks! Sam Moz Helpster

Good point, Linda! It's listed as the seventh most-influential factor in the Local Search Ranking Factors 2013, but that doesn't explain what you have, regarding organic factors and the cream at the top:)

Yea I would limit this to a lower number to few important comparisons not all highest, lowest, and few middle priced, and maybe most know stores. Adding content will help to mitigate this as well. But if its under 5 I dont think that should be a red flag

Cheers, yea certainly unintentional from my client. I will include a Google docs spread sheet showing the actions taken to remove these links and probably a link to this discussion! With a rather humble and embarrassed apology! oh well my first penalty in a 100 sites or so. Thanks for your help! have a great day!

Thanks we've been using it already, it's great.

Here's a middle ground. Allow the homepage of the redirected domain to be indexed. Put something useful there. Change the campaign URL to be a deep page such as SchwempleToSchpell.com/schpelling and redirect that. John

Yeah, technically, you're supposed to make a good faith effort to remove the links, but Google isn't clear on how many, how much effort, etc. This seems to hold true for Penguin in addition to manual penalties. Most of the Penguin recovery stories I've head have involved pretty deep cuts, to be brutally honest.

Sidi Here is the link that will let you crawl the site now. This is the crawl test link and I do not know how to get to it other than this link.  As to Pro and Moz analytics, analytics is still in Beta but will replace pro at some point is my understanding. Hope that helps

Thanks Robert, really appreciate your answer. I will start on the 'to-do' list you provided now. It really is a broad question and one that I didn't know where to even begin so thanks for understanding. Reading some of the old threads now but like your game plan. Thanks!

Hi there, I assume, you want to generate an XML sitemap. If that's the case, you can try GSitecrawler? Its free. Here you go: http://gsitecrawler.com/ It has many options to include and exclude certain file types and all other features that you would need for the purpose and much more. Best, Devanur Rafi

Hey There Just to add to Remus's answer (which was very thorough, thanks for that) - to explain a little bit more about Moz's DA. Each time Moz updates there linkscape index (which open site explorer is based on) there index may change slightly. So you may still have links from sites out there on there net, but every once and a while month Moz will have them in their index and the next month their index might get a little smaller and they may not show, and thus you didn't really lose authority, it just appears that way. So I'd track something like DA with a long term approach (like 6-12 months) and watch for it to go up year over year - especially if your in a space that's not going to pile on links as quickly as like retail etc. Hummingbird was the end of August, and didn't throw off people's rankings so much, so this is very unlikely to have anything to do with the ranking change. I don't see any other major alo changes at that time. (you can check here: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change) - but it would be worth doing what Remus suggests and digging a little deeper into your analytics, backlinks profile etc and see if you can pinpoint anything more specific. One good approach is to try and pinpoint if it's sitewide or just specific keywords/pages. -Dan

Hi Michael, very good question. For some unknown reason the contact and report pages for Google Plus are not easy to find. I had some friends who wanted to contact them as well and, after long hours of search they came up with this email: profiles-support@google.com They basically saw it in some discussions posted by people on the web. I think you should give it a try and report them, you got nothing to loose!

Yeah i wont probably do any better or it will take a long time which i cant afford, so might as well 301 it to new domain and see what happens. Thanks

Hi there, Thanks for the post and sorry you're running into issues here! I just logged into your account and was able to add 3 test keywords in this format - test, test1, test2 -. I left them in the campaign for your review. Everything seems to be working fine from what I can see, but if you're still running into issues here, it may be best to send a ticket into help[at]moz.com so we can dig deeper for you. This'll prevent you from having to post details in the thread too Best, Sam Moz Helpster

Hi There, Simply re-ordering your content is not going to make it any more unique. I've seen mashing up content help sometimes (depending on how trustworthy the site is) but changing the order of the same phrases doesn't add to the uniqueness of the page. Honestly, the results probably aren't worth the time required to do this. Good luck! Geoff

Thanks for the reply

Thanks for the response. Point 1 already did... Point 2 might be a solution,I was kind of blind with the mess so I tried to block that domain.... Will try with redirects now Any other suggestion it's welcome Dan