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Hi Echo1, I suggest you open a new thread for this question. This system doesn't show new activity on old questions, so people are unlikely to notice it.

Absolutely. In fact I realised that I missed the above after posting but my edit did not register. I hope my editing priviledges are not revoked.

Hi Mike, The 301s should take care of the link juice. A rel canonical tag wouldn't do any harm if it eases your mind though. Is there a reason you are serving the whole thing https? If not, as Jane, James and I all agree on - it is probably best to only use https where necessary.

Hi! We're going through older questions that are marked unanswered. Since it's been a few months, I'm wondering if you've recovered, or figured out why your rankings dropped, and if you have any insights to share with us. Thanks!

I've been thinking about Squidoo for a while also... It's not because I like Squidoo... In all honesty, i've been thinking about how I could use it to send some more link juice to my site. Although it definitely is a great vehicle to host spammy pages with the sole purpose of generating backlinks and pass on linkjuice, I think it can also be used for a white-hat approach. The way to do it right should follow rule #1 of good internet marketers: to create valuable and unique content with  useful information that helps people out. In this specific case, it might be a how-to piece "on how to select the best self storage service" or "5 pitfals to avoid when selecting selfstorage". The article should be unique (in terms of content, so it is not picked up as duplicate content), **useful **(so that people actually read it and eventually tweet or +1 it) and **authoritative **(using 3rd party references to support what it says). No hard selling pitches, no blatant promotion of products/services... only useful information, with relevant links to different and authoritative domains... and, of course, a couple of good links back to your site. PS: I haven't tried it... so I don't know if creating such a page would have any impact on a website ranking. What do you guys think? Is it worth spending the time to come up with such a  page?

Thanks Rand. Appreciate the reply. It's not a dealbreaker, as such, more of an inconvenience. Currently trialling the pro version. I must say the web app is otherwise a very impressive product. I've tried various combos of online and software tools before, nothing as comprehensive or as intuitive as this. Now I just need to convince my boss it's worth the monthly investment Cheers, Nick www.vendhq.com

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Thanks Dejan! Very helpful!

Totally agree Roger, that setting is only good for those humongous campaigns with tons of data points. To circumvent the issue, for smaller campaigns I sometimes: Start/run campaign entirely on basic/default settings. Even ad rotation. Days. Bids. Everyything. No smart anything. Everything bare bones basic, as if I were dealing with the Adwords interface from pre 2005. Then once enough data has collected I automate things one by one. Nothing beats the pure raw data in the beginning to give a better picture.

I found Market Samurai to be fairly useful for getting competition data on a few thousands of keywords. However, it is not as in-depth as SEOmoz KW difficulty tool.

Best thing you can do is check fiverr and maybe digital point and be VERY VERY selective in who you hire. Test them on a site you don't care too much about and be detailed in the tasks you give them. Stay away from mass submission type stuff; directories, articles, etc. I'd look for someone who can truly do niche linking or competitor offset links for you (in house). Maybe someone on craigslist you can train.

I really wouldnt take it offline - not for two months. Craziness Make it read-only if possible - or schedule some new content if you can. If you truly want minimum SEO impact, then wait until the new site is out of beta then push live and setup your 301's..

Hi There, I've been tackling this same issue with my site, and I think I have your problem diagnosed - It's your domain relevancy and authority. You have modest authority, but low relevancy. It looks like you're trying to rank locally for the following terms (or variants): Toronto Storage Etobicoke Storage Mississauga Storage Scarborough Storage But, here's a breakdown of your (relevant) anchor text: Toronto Storage - 5 Linking Root Domains with Anchor Text Self Storage Toronto - 4 Linking Root Domains with Anchor Text Storage in Toronto, Scarborough & Mississauga - 2 Linking Root Domains with Anchor Text Storage Toronto - 1 Linking Root Domains with Anchor Text Besides "Toronto Storage", your links are providing you with very little relevancy in regard to the terms you are trying to rank for. According to David Mihm's Local Search Ranking Factors, citations, domain authority, and quality of inbound links are the most important factors that you can actually use to set yourself apart from the competition (assuming most people are smart enough to include relevant addresses, categories, etc in their place pages). You are currently doing the equivalent of trying to rank for "dishwasher" with links that only have "kitchen" in the anchor text. Conclusion: Build links with the terms you want to rank for as the anchor text. I just experienced the exact same problem and the link building shot my places traffic though the roof for a very competitive space. How: Fire up Google and do a search for a phrase you want to rank for like "Toronto Storage." Make sure the MozBar is installed and explore the links of your top competitors. Copy the links that aren't junk using the terms you want to rank for as the anchor text. This is somewhat time consuming, but you currently have so few links that you are going to discover a goldmine of opportunity with about two hours worth of work.

I have found it hard to evaluate links on a weekly basis, too. All tools give different results. You need to pick 1 tool, create a spreadsheet, and then track links with that same tool week to week. At least you should know on a relative basis if you're improving or not, even if you're not getting the exact true link count. The Link Analysis tab of SEOmoz shows some stats (external followed links, followed links root domains, unique C-blocks) that are useful to track over time, but they only update about once a month (note to SEOmoz: weekly would be great) The one thing you CAN track week to week is your SERP rankings, on the Rankings tab. You can track number of phrases you have in the top 3, as well as number of phrases on page 1. If your external link building is progressing then those numbers should go up week over week. And those numbers drive your organic search visits per week, which you can view on the Traffic tab, or in Google Analytics directly. As far as follow/no-follow goes, remember that you want a 'normal' anchor text distribution and usually a normal anchor text profile will include some no-follows. So keep some no-follows in there...