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Can anyone help with this? Thanks, Phil

Thank you!! I appreciate the direction! Lynn

Another explanation might be that there are some session ID parameters that are being indexed and totally inflating the internal links to page metric. If you have an ecommerce site or something that is adding session IDs, you could have a huge number of links to the page that are in truth the same link, and Google is recognizing this. Have you looked at the details of those internal links?

Casey from SEOmoz responded to this question in another thread with the following: "That article was out of date and replaced by a chapter in our Beginners Guide to SEO", which is the link below that Gyi quoted.

Hi, I agree with your suggestion. This is the best way of doing your new urls. /shopping/feeding/ /baby-list/feeding/ /ask/feeding/ Thanks Tahir

Hi there, I think I have responded to an older inquiry of yours a few months ago, so I thought I'd chime in here. The other 2 responses (thanks guys) mention the on-page SEO - but you will also need to start attracting some .ca links to help gain some visibility in the area. It's tough because this is a U.S.-based site, with a U.S. TLD and address, so getting international visibility is tough - it's pretty hard to geographically target organic searches without the physical presence. Links will definitely help. But if it were me - I would strongly consider PPC as well.

Certainly possibly that it was a small algo shift, but unless lots of other sites fell in the rankings, too, I'd say the fresh boost/loss is the more likely culprit in this case. BTW - you might want to check out this slide deck for some ideas on growing content/links/inbound marketing: http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/inbound-marketing-for-startups-in-2011

Add unique description for your products and description of the service, optimized for your keywords.

Don't change the keywords targeted on the homepage. If you're wanting extra keywords then you need extra pages that are optimised for those keywords. DD

dont use 301 redirect except if you are changing page location permanently.

If that's the case I wouldn't worry about it, if things change and you start blogging maybe use it there but like you say it's not worth worrying about. Tom

Google will value the 'trust' factor of a site as a whole.  If you manage to get a backlink on say, newyorktimes.com, on a page that is well buried, that is still considered a good backlink because it's coming from a trusted source. I have stopped looking at pagerank (toolbar) altogether, and focus on the overall quality of a website now when doing my link building.

I've never actually experimented with different placement, other than different positions on the bottom of posts. I can say that with one fairly popular site I run (25k visits/day) Faceook, Twitter, and email comprise just about all of the share clicks. Of those, Facebook is clicked about twice as often as Twitter, and Twitter a bit more than twice as often as email. Despite that giant Facebook sharing lead, Twitter sends just about the same number of incoming referrals as Facebook.

Really both. On the one hand, the value of building many links on the same domain diminishes as the number of links on that domain increases. However, in my experience, this doesn't start happening until you're talking a lot of links (think footer links & blog roll links). Going after the new domain will increase the domain diversity of your back link profile, which is really important. Also, are we assuming that both domains are of equal authority? My advice would be to continue spending time building links on domain #1 and start investing time into the more difficult domain #2.

Since discovered 'Advanced Link Manager' and its proving to be very handy.

Thanks for the info Baptiste. I'll add the RSS feed and subscriptions to new questions in certain categories to our queue. Please let me know if you have more feedback or ideas for improving the system!