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The old links that are already in google need to be given a "forwarding address" (301 redirect) to the equivalent page on your new site. The user goes to the relevant page, and all is good. If there is something common between the old site and the new site in the URL (where each had /productabc/ in the URL) then you can set up a rewrite rule with a regular expression that will take care of a bunch of the URLs at once. Otherwise, you do need to rewrite them individually.

We have a similar problem, we have a javascript dropdown nav at the top which brings the user to every product category on the site (+100), but we also also have the main categories listed in the left column.   So we have used "no follow" for the javascript dropdown nav, and also other pages like shopping cart etc, so leaving the spider to use the main categories listed in the left column to crawl the site .  But not sure how effective or useful that would be

Thanks Adam for all your comments. I agree Google encourages the use of video and my concern is the load time of moving from 2 seconds to 11 seconds. This will be a good test!

Ok so the domain is www.ensorbuilding.com The keyword is "rubbercover". The URL which used to rank until around a week ago is http://www.ensorbuilding.com/section.php/43/2/firestone-epdm-rubbercover-flat-roofing I submitted to a few directorys, not many maybe 5-6. On my home page I did have the keyword in the META keywords and the Title tag but have removed them to avoid cannibalization as you mentioned.

Hi Damion, This is a great response.. Thanks for this, and taking the time to answer. Thanks again

| Francesco | less than 1 hour ago | [image: pencil.png?1302115723] Edit | Hey Francesco! So, I think I figured out why this is happening. Unfortunately, this website is based on the uk.com domain, which looks and acts like a ccTLD. However, the ccTLD uk.com isn't actually a ccTLD at all, which is why we are treating your site like a subdomain in Linkscape/OSE/Link Analysis in the Web App (Link Analysis is based on domain data instead of subdomain). All of the sites on .uk.com are actually subdomains of the root domain http://uk.com, so when you run your OSE searches, keep that in mind. If you look at your root domain, you'll actually be looking at http://uk.com. I hope this information helps! Sorry for the OSE/Link Analysis confusion. Let me know if I can explain this better!

No worries, best of luck with it

Hi Andrew, you can read the answer here in the new search ranking factors: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-2 There it is pretty well explained

Thank you for your help, will have a look at these links.

It's your video and your attribution - to me it makes sense to have a link back.

Hi Wayne, Google released an official post regarding this topic located here which may help to explain your question. As stated previously, by Google and in the post, Google does take measures to ensure submission to low quality links will not necessarily result in a penalty, but will likely not help your site a significant degree. This also means a significant ranking drop for specific keywords is likely not the result of low quality directory submissions.

The logo actually reduces a whole lot via smush.it, so that can help a little. Have you looked at the graphic elements that came with the theme that you didn't necessarily create? Yahoo's Y!Slow extension for Firefox can also point out a lot of other areas for speeding up the site.

1. If you only want the .PT indexed and the .COM already has pages indexed then you should do 301 redirects for each and every page on the .COM that has been indexed and then make all the others noindex,nofollow in the robots meta tag. 2. If you are just redirecting the whole .COM domain to the .PT domain then do the 301 redirects of the pages that are cached/indexed by the search engines and then remove all the pages from the .COM server which would save you having to add the noindex tags to all the pages(but will affect point number 3 below). 3. If your target market is only in Portugal then by all means implement the redirects and leave it as is - but if you are going to expand to target other countries then you might want to think about either having different content on each of the domains which are specific to that country. 4. What about language? I'm assuming your target market is Portoguese speaking and the .PT domain contains content in that language? 5. What I think you should do is have your content on the .COM and have different sections for which country the user is in(or which language they select) - this can be detected with some simple coding by a developer. Hope this helps a bit

Sounds like you should be in a position to know fairly quickly then. Give it a week or two and see what happens.

Hi Miriam, Thanks for this! Apologies, i'm being a little cautious about saying too much about the industry as this is a delicate situation at the moment!  Essentially a travel agent and hotel chain might be a close comparison where the travel agents are creating places pages claiming the hotels more or less as their own. As you say, merging pages might become a real problem.  I guess managing pages for each agent is a huge amount of work but would be the only real way of keeping any sort of control - it would still leave us with the issue of merging and in any case, i don't think our agents would actually subscribe to this. Anyway, many thanks for your help, it's given me a lot more to think about for sure, especially your interpretation of that particular guideline.