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If there are links on your site going to sites that are penalized, you generally need to remove those links on your site.

I agree, GA can be a little hit and miss but it at least it has given you some reason to look into it further and see if there is actually something wrong. As per Dmitrii, I would suggest running a series of tests to establish if your site is truly running slower. There could be a multitude of reasons as to why it is running slower so eliminating the issues one by one may help. Places to test your site include tools.pingdom.com gtmetrix.com Google page speed test Webpage Test. Also as per Dmitrii, in browser with developer tools As it is a new site, are there any new elements that were not included before? new scripts, images etc. Consider also using CDN's to deliver your content for added speed gains. Check the waterfall tables to see if any elements are struggling. Have you also moved to an SSL when updating redesiging your responsive site, this can also cause a slight reduction in speed. Hope this helps Tim

Based on what I understand this is a quite normal side affect of going to https:// and in many cases the benefits you may have gained from performing multiple page speed upgrades, responsive edits etc may be reduced in there effectiveness from a page speed perspective. However, and this is a big however, you will also benefit from an SEO stance from Google for using an encrypted protocol which is now considered a ranking factor, albeit a small one at press. Second to this, before too long many of the browsers will have fully adopted HTTP2 which is based on SPDY developed by Google and has apparently massive speed gains. In order to adopt HTTP2 you have to have already made the leap to using an SSL. HTTP2 allow you to load in parallel which will in turn give you much greater speeds going forward due to the request loading at the same time nd hence speeding things up even further.. Based on your current scores, I would imagine there are also a few more additional changes that you could make to further improve your sites speed whilst still using and SSL. CDN's, caching, compressing and more. Use sites like tools.pingdom, gtmetrix, webpagetest.org to see what else can be improved. Hope this offers some further insight.

Well, those domains are not gonna be even on 9th page, more like on 159th.

Yes, it's very much possible. either cached result or it's checking something different. But it happens

Dirk, Thanks for the links. This was very helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Spot on! Steven

Hello Nick Thank you for your reply. Yes with link label I mean anchor text. The example I referred to has one page for B2C and one for B2B. So there is completely different pages with different content.  Both have links in the menu displayed on all the pages on the site. They appear as a anchor text  in sub menus under different anchor text in the main menu. Like this: Privat (anchor text in main menu) Elsjekk (anchor text in sub menu) Business (anchor text in main menu) Elsjekk (anchor text in sub menu) I assume that it is logic for the users that the link under Privat is for the B2C customers, and the link under Business is for B2B customers. But I was more thinking what impact this has for the ranking position in Google. I am good with Rebeccas answer if you agree it has limited impact in Google. Thank you for your support. br Kjersti

Hi, What are some alternatives to addthis that we could use in our blog that doesn't mess with SEO?

Darren, When testing the goal, it's looking back on past data. So if it's a new event that is being tracked, then it could be setup correctly and the validation would still say, "0% conversion rate based on your data from the past 7 days." That being said, if you still don't see any completions after a few days (I'd recommend testing it manually a bit), then let me know and we'll see if we can troubleshoot the issue. Trenton

Hey there! Your traffic data in your campaign is imported directly from your Google Analytics account. We don't change or alter it, so if you're seeing dropped traffic there can be a few different causes. If your traffic in your Moz campaign is lower than what you're seeing in GA, this is likely due to a connectivity issue the prevented us from collecting your traffic data on a daily basis. Oftentimes this is caused by expired or invalid tokens. We recommend reconnecting that token to restore traffic data. You can double check this by heading into your Traffic from Search section and switching the timeframe to daily. You may see missing data points from the days it wasn't connected. If your Moz traffic matches what you're seeing in GA (as it sounds like is the case for you), this might be an issue on GA's end. We would recommend troubleshooting with Google to find potential causes. Traffic drops can also be due to SEO-related issues. Unfortunately, we can't diagnose SEO root causes for you, but you can definitely use Moz Pro to research why it might have happened. Did you have an increase in crawl errors that might be preventing people from reaching your site? Did a competitor make big strides recently? The Q&A forum is a great place to reach out to SEO experts who might be able to help. You might also consider reaching out to an SEO consultant to look into the issue!

Good to hear no performance issue. Obviously that is priority number one.   Definitely don't sweat the render.  You might want to refetch and see how it looks. also give it shot with mobile fetch to see if you get anything different. A lot of us are chasing the position zero snippet.  I didn't look at your site closely but i would start by making sure that every single item (as appropriate) is marked up with schema.org.  That will put you closer to your goal

Hi Ioannis, What about the first suggestion? Can you create a page linking to all of the pages that you'd like to remove, then have Google crawl that page? Best, Kristina

Hi, This is a recurring question on the Moz Q&A - you might want to check Rand's post about fluctuation of the DA in relation to index updates: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores Dirk

No problem Cliff. I hope you found it helpful, and I'm happy to hear this has been cleared up for you. It's something I'll keep in mind if anyone else has a similar issue.

It's better to 301 a page if it's relevant than it is to let it go 404. However if it's a service or product you no longer carry, might be better off keeping it a 404 so the page goes away unless you think you'll be using that url again. 404s won't hurt you unless you have a huge number of them, but if you have a page you no longer want and wish for it to be forgotten about, you can let it 404 and will eventually go bye bye.

Hi Jarred! We'd love an update on this. Did Eric's response help?

It might be that your updated title tag language is decreasing clicks through to your site - so you're still ranking the same, but not as many people are clicking. Since you're wanting to target a more qualified audience, this dip in traffic might not be a bad thing if you're seeing a higher conversion rate or more qualified leads. If you're running AdWords, it might be worth testing both versions of the language from your title tags in ads to see if that is impacting your click-through rate.