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maybe I should try re-establishing robots.txt and a site map and seeing if Google recrawls the old domain and picks up the 301's to the new one. If you can do this, then it is definitely worth doing. -Andy

Hi Andy, The single page will only serve the same results as the static pages only after user selects the fields in the drop-down. This is a functionality which will server results with users inputs only. Since rel=cannonical can be used only in the case of absolute duplication only like for instance e-commerce website with price, or other filters.

Hi Ruth, Thank you a lot for your input. I think our changes to brand and website will not be that significant as we do not change anything regarding our brand - it will remain the same. Same for the design and content. I like the idea of collecting email addresses, but I am not sure what to tell them when we switch domains - as there will be nothing new, apart from the domain URL The major issue what was bothering us was the fact that our main domain was country specific (.at) and we are an internationally operating company. That is why we planned to switch the main domain to a .com. I will definitely follow your suggestions about some PR before the domain switch and get SEs to crawl the site before the switch.

The same thing happens to me, and I check my rankings in an inkognito Chrome window. Does anyone know why I am seeing discrepancies?

It seems like the issue is a bug in the way Google handle data from your site ('null' being computer speak for 'empty', and often appearing after buggy handling of data). However, it seems that the indication from Umar is correct, and that this buggy data handling is likely prompted by crawling issue so that is the best place to start.

What you could do is check how the message was sent to the user by what connection. It could say for example that it was using a Chrome Browser or another application who supports this.

You can accomplish this IA with folders or with the slug, the key is how you interlink everything. That is how you can show your related articles and what the most important article is on a given topic.  The Bruce Clay article (IMHO) is still relevant, I think you do not need to get as granular due to things like Hummingbird.  I tend to think of organizing around a topic with a set of key words, vs getting super granular with the keyword siloing.  I think for the user it still makes sense that way as you need to make up an organizational structure that is simple and easy to understand vs having so many subcategories that they get confused. Cheers!

Thanks, Paul. We started resubmitting the cleaned pages yesterday. I passed your comments about the Apache install and the old version of PHP to the devs as well. At the very least, this is a great learning experience for us. It's great to have such a helpful community.

Thank you for your reply Rebecca. I have added 'nofollow' to these links.

I'm so sorry that you ran into this issue, Thomas! We were making a quick change to our campaign settings and it caused a short outage in the campaign set-up widget for the search engines. Everything should be up and running smoothly again, so please give your campaign another try and let me know if you need any further assistance with your account.

How long ago did you add the sites to get indexed? I would suggest you check in Bing webmaster tools that the site has actually been indexed first. From there you will need to allow some time before you can see real ranking results

PR sites are a bit less used compared to a few years back as I believe Google made some algorithm changes based around PR sites. (correct me if I am wrong on this) so tread carefully with where you choose to place any PR. As for linking on PR articles Google I believe treats any links back to your site as advertising, so although it is good to link to your site for brand awareness, this is all it should be used for. Place a rel="nofollow" on any links back to your site to enable you to use this PR as advertised article. Google thinks it should kind of be a paid for link. Hope this helps.

Definitely agree here, there isn't a "patch" or "quick fix" for this one. Get mobile friendly and focus your efforts on doing it correctly and in a timely manner and you should be able to bounce back over time.

Hi Andy, We're not sure yet about the amount of scrolling pages, however the resources you've given here have helped us a lot! Thanks very much!

Your Spain site is most likely getting Latin American traffic because it's in Spanish. Does your offering(s) change in Spain vs Mexico? If so, you should have a Mexico focused site. If your offerings don't change based on the location of the customer, then you probably just need one site in different languages.

Addendum to this.   You may actually want to look more at the pages you are targeting for those keywords and the amount of organic traffic going to that page.  Why?  This encompasses more than just what your ranking is, but are people clicking through.  We have run experiments to change the meta description and looked at traffic vs ranking.   While ranking and click through are related, they are still two different things. Finally, you have to look at what converts.  I like to use Google's page value parameter.  I can look at not only what content is ranking and getting traffic, but also what converts.  I then use that to better plan my content or what content needs to be updated etc.  Get your metrics to tie out to the bottom line and that is what really ultimately what matters. Cheers!

Honestly, Facebook page management is a bit outside of my expertise. You may have seen this Facebook help page before, but it's where I would start. Sending you there feels a bit like tech support asking you if you rebooted your computer, though. Hopefully someone with more experience troubleshooting Facebook pages will chime in.

My friend, there likely is no answer to this issue, and the responses you've received pretty well cover the possibilities. They've come from folks known to be experts, as well. To get more specific would require testing against the site in question, and for that you'll need to hire a consultant. Please be courteous and respect the community members who have generously given of their time and knowledge to answer your question. If you have questions about our community etiquette guidelines or thoughts you'd like to share, please email us at community@moz.com.