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It is pointing to the other server now. We have it blocked from indexing on that end, just wanted to make sure that was enough.

Hi Marcy, If the sites are using your brand name and/or other brand terms, and your brand is copyrighted, you may be able to file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown request with Google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?pli=1\. As they note in the description on the tool, be very clear about whether the other site's actions actually constitute a violation of your copyright before filing the request. I think it's unlikely that these new sites are impacting your site's performance in search - I was a little unclear about the JavaScript redirect, though (I'm at work and don't want to click on the links you posted on my work computer). Is it redirecting from their site to your site, or from their site to another site that is the porn/junk site? If it's the latter, that shouldn't be affecting your site at all. If it's the former, you may want to file disavow requests at the domain level for those sites just in case. If your drop in rankings was caused by these new sites, I would expect to see a drop in performance across the board, rather than for specific queries, so I recommend that you keep digging on other reasons for the drop. I would take a look at the sites that are ranking now for the terms you've lost rankings for. How are they different from your site? What sites are ranking now that weren't ranking when you were on top? It may be that Google has decided that your site doesn't fulfill the search intent for those keywords, so taking a look at the sites that rank now will give you some insight into the kinds of pages that Google wants to rank for these terms. Since these were highly-converting terms for you, consider investing in PPC ads for these terms while you work to regain your organic presence. Good luck!

Thank you very much for clearing it up!

Hello, If you share the site we can have a look and let you know. If you set the redirects to be 301 in Magento then they're probably 301s. However, Moz may be giving you data from their last crawl, or they may be giving you data about different URLs, other than the ones you're redirecting permanently. If you check the http header status with a tool like the one DJOGlobal recommended you'll know for sure. I'm marking this as answered, but if you need more help with this specific issue feel free to respond.

hello, You don't mention what kind of check reports you are looking for, but I also recommend you to scan your pages (sorry but one at a time) with the free tool PageSpeed Insight of Google. After crawling, you will see 2 different results: desktop-oriented and mobile-oriented, with a rating number and a detail of what is working or not at your site/subdomain. I usually use it in order to improve my website's response time, cache issues, user experience, etc. Hope this helps! Luis

Got it! There are a few possible explanations for what's going on, but the most likely is simply that the links you've gathered—primarily through social network accounts—aren't being seen by the Mozscape index, and so aren't showing up in OSE. Mozscape's crawler focuses on breadth rather than depth. What that means is that it'll only follow links on any given site so deeply. That allows us to index more sites, but it means that some very deep pages aren't going to be crawled. In the case of social networks and business directories, just about any outbound links to individual sites are going to be too deep for Mozscape to index. There are just too many listings, and there's a whole lot more internet out there! This generally works out, since there's little if any ranking value in those links—they're not earned—and since the purpose of them tends to be for traffic or for local SEO, rather than for building link count. To build DA, you'll need to focus on building links from high quality, high authority, relevant sites. Does that make sense?

Hi Charles There's actually a question that has a few answers and ideas to it located here. Check that out - there's some pretty good stuff there. Hope this helps out a bit!

I'm going to assume you're talking about another, smaller website in the same industry. We call these "satellite" websites and, generally speaking, they're not a good idea. As Bryan Leo mentioned below, there are some exceptions to the rule but without knowing more about what you're trying to do I would have to answer "no". Like Martjin said, it would be better to increase your efforts on your main site than to spread them across multiple sites in the same niche.

Thanks Dirk.. That sounds good.

You're welcome! Let us know if the problem keeps happening... Best, Luis

Hi Dirk, After contacting Google by phone and mail, filing a few more spam reports and refreshing textual content, we got our results back and traffic/revenue has grown since. We are very happy, and no other pages got attacked (yet). Thanks for your help. Marcel

Oh by the way, here's a post I wrote for Moz on setting up wordpress for SEO: http://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

Hi, i need help. Spam score is currently 63%, I did this (you successfully uploaded a disavow links file (dosavow links.txt) containing 46 domains and 315 URLs.) How much should I wait to change? URL: https://www.neueabnehmen.de/

hi sorry for late reply, yes its working elsewhere whcih is strange.. its also working here but gives this extra message about this subdomain we dont have and is not active thanks again

You got it! We're focused on the blog for now, but it should be responsive as of this afternoon (Seattle). We're all pretty excited.

Hi again In that case I would do this (just my opinion, again): Webinar page: "Photoship Webinars | Company Name" Individual webinar page: "Photoshop in the Cloud | Webinars | Company" Your doing a few things here - you're telling search engines - this is a page about Photoshop in the Cloud that is a webinar from this company. Users can read that title and quickly understand as well. I have always been a fan of the "Page Content | Category | Brand" title layout myself. That's just me. I would also check out Schema.org for opportunities to markup your content on those webinar and individual webinar pages to better assist crawlers. Here's a good discussion on ProWebmasters. Does this make sense?

Hi Patrick, Thanks for getting in. I beleive I see the SERP fluctuations on a daily basis, but that exact thing was surely off the loop. Possibly, Google took into consideration some penalizing factor that it hadn't  measured in right after the site was re-indexed. That's why I thought of some toxic links that were re-assessed.

Are you looking for help with the technical setup (Shopping) or Power Editor experience? I would try and look at Freelancer.com or you could take a look at this post here from the Moz Community, that should give you some places to search for a freelancer or consultant: http://moz.com/community/q/where-do-you-find-an-individual-freelance-seo