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Hi Jason, Just keep on working as Rome was not built in a day.  Pay no attention to the overall rank until you have completed the transformation.  If it has been done properly rank should improve. My best advice is to try to stick with a single project until completion.  Try not to mix up the work you are doing since you will just be left with problems all over the place with no end in site. Once you have completed them, add a blog.  It is most likely not THE reason nor the ONLY reason things seem to be dropping. Stay the course.  1000 points of light.  Stay the course.

Thanks for your help... will delete it and see whats happens.

I have a site that is 4 months old. Prior to today the site had a domain authority of 0, and the home page had a PA of 1. I submitted a daily sitemap and the site was crawled daily. If I ever shared an important article I would submit an extra site map and noticed the content in the search results within a couple hours. This is an active, forum based site. I have heard others complain their site is crawled very infrequently. I am not sure if Google treated my site well because it was newer, or had good content, or decent activity. I can just share my experience that the site was crawled quite frequently. Just checking the first site, it has only a few pages. It was designed by a basic site creation software and seems crawlable. Just small sites (around 10 pages) don't change frequently so they don't get crawled often. If the site owner doesn't submit a sitemap letting Google know a change has been made, it may be some time before Google decides to crawl them or finds a link to their site.

More pages doesn't always mean better SERP position.  There is no black and white answer on this.  Here is a helpful excerpt from a recent blog by Dr. Pete : A common example is when you take a page of content and spin it off across 100s of cities or topics, changing up the header and a few strategic keywords. In the old days, the worst that could happen is that these pages would be ignored. Post-Panda, you risk much more severe consequences, especially if those pages make up a large percentage of your overall content. Another common scenario is deep product pages that only vary by a small piece of information, such as the color of the product or the size. Take a T-shirt site, for example – any given style could come in dozens of combinations of gender, color, and size. These pages are completely legitimate, from a user perspective, but once they multiple into the 1000s, they may look like low-value content to Google. The Solution Unfortunately, this is a case where you might have to bite the bullet and block these pages (such as with META NOINDEX). For the second scenario, I think that can be a decent bet. You might be better off focusing your ranking power on one product page for the T-shirt instead of every single variation. In the geo-keyword example, it’s a bit tougher, since you built those pages specifically to rank. If you’re facing large-scale filtering or devaluation, though, blocking those pages is better than the alternative. You may want to focus on just the most valuable pages and prune those near duplicates down to a few dozen instead of a few thousand. Alternatively, you’ve got to find a way to add content value, beyond just a few swapped-out keywords. Source In your case, if you are able to truly make pages that are unique, valuable, and genuinely helpful to users, you definitely stand  to benefit your overall traffic.  However, If I were in your position I would focus on making more like 50-100 pages with better, higher quality content, rather than 1000's of pages with just a little content.

Option 2 would be the best possible solution, with a 301 redirect. You maintain MOST of your linkjuice this way and users get an easy redirect, no extra clicking required. Read here for more information.

I am basing my response on an example offered on the schema.org site. In the example below,the "range" itemprop was set multiple times for the same item. It seems that is how the author situation would be handled. With respect to the isbn, I would assign both. This is a new system and the above are my best guesses based on what I have seen. I am certain these questions will be addressed in detail quite soon. If I was coding today, the above is how I would proceed. If it is later found to be incorrect, it should be easy to remove the extra line of code.

This is exactly  what I'm trying to determine as well.   My initial findings tilt toward very low seo value but haven't found a definitive answer.

Hi Alexander! I just assigned this question to the Hekp team. One of them will be able to help you out soon! Thanks! Jen

Speculating about the next couple years of SEO is one thing. The further out you go, the more variables you introduce and the less relevant the ideas become. A few years ago most people could not predict the impact twitter and facebook would have on SEO. Many still don't understand and need to be awoken with clear visual charts. I am not willing to speculate further then what I have, but I will watch your question and hope it spurs other ideas.

You can also see how much of your desired content Google is indexing. in Google Webmaster Tools, you can see that you've submitted 65 pages and 45 pages of those are indexed. You still need to figure out for yourself which are those 20 pages, but you know that there are some things not being indexed.

Ah, so it was me! You are absolutely correct, my apologies. Of course, if you only wish to follow the outgoing tweets from an account you control then there would not be any spam concerns.

I did not know we had one free private question every month. Thank you, Thomas