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Hey Adam - I sent you an email hoping to get some more details!

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Videos from Youtube are great. Make sure you embed them with an http and not the standard http. Pinterest is a great link source, BBB if you have access to that.

Hi Adam, It's very important to keep your listings and physical locations separate, as were they to merge accidentally, it could result in your contact details being mixed up, so typically, merging is something business owners want to avoid. Each Google+ Local page needs to be viewed as a separate entity, earning its own reviews.

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Hi Adam, I recently experienced a rankings drop after P3, and here's some of the things I did to correct the problems.  Before proceeding, I know that everyone says that Google must re-run Penguin to see any changes.  However, from my experience, that depends on the way Penguin affected you. If P3 penalized you by completely removing your site, then you're probably not going to see any recovery until Google re-runs Penguin. On the other hand, if you experienced a rankings demotions, as we both did, then you can take steps to fix it and will see results without Google re-running Penguin. Obviously, this is an area of HUGE speculation. I know it seems like Google has stated that a Penguin penalty requires that Google re-run Penguin to see that penalty lifted. However, the Penguin algorithm is just one part of Google's algo, so it only accounts for a portion of what Google considers when deciding where to rank your site for a given keyword. Further, I'm not focused on a P3 penalty, but rather a demotion. A demotion does not necessarily mean a penalty, but instead could indicate (1) links to your site were de-valued, thereby hurting your rankings, or (2) your competition cleaned up their link profiles and were rewarded, thereby allowing them to outrank you. Regardless, here's what I did and I hope this helps you. 1.  I used CognitiveSEO to go through my link profile. There are other similar tools out there, but I like this one. 2.  After going through my link profile, I uploaded a disavow file to GWT.  If previously disavowed links are still showing in your GWT, don't worry.  They will still show in GWT, but will be marked as "no-follow." 3.  Carefully go through your entire site.  Ask yourself, "Is this a good user experience?"  Be honest with yourself on this point. Is the content good/useful/informative? Is the site nicely laid out? Does the site inspire trust? In short, make it a great site. 4.  Internal linking - huge area of opportunity. I would say carefully go through each page and ask yourself how to improve the user experience by internal linking. 5. Promote via social media. Also, carefully study your competition to understand how they are promoting their sites. I know this may sound cheesy, but I really believe that Rand is correct when he tells us to "be awesome." If you make a great website and promote it, people will not only come to the site, but also come back to the site. Repeat business is everything. Although I'm certain I experienced the same panic/stress/anxiety you did when you saw your rankings drop, I realized there was nothing I could except really focus on making a better site: content, U/X, conversion driven design, download speeds, social media, and a link profile that I wouldn't be ashamed of. I believe that if you do those things, you'll see an improvement in rankings. I hope that helps.

Hi Matt It was the only change we made , I have since optimised more meta descriptions across main landing pages so I will let you know what happens.

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Thank you so much Tom Very Helpful and I really Appriciate it Exciting news about the algorithm refresh. I will keep a check on the MOZ Algorithm Change History for that then Thanks Adam

Dropped you a PM with some specifics Adam, but isn't looking too healthy. -Andy

Hey Adam, Thanks for the question. How the monthly timeframe works is it generates on the first day of the month as long as there is at least 21 days of data. Otherwise it will wait for the next monthly cycle. Unfortunately in your case you had 18 days of data so there was not a complete data set to work with. Sorry about that. Cheers, Joel.

Kind of going back to where I believe Craig was heading... Even though the content will be very different will the products be the same or similar?  Will 'Site B' be selling masks? I think where Craig was going was - will there be pages on 'Site B' that would be relevant enough that you actually redirect 'Site A' pages over to 'Site B' pages rather than to the 'Site A' home page? If I have misrepresented your line of thinking, Craig, I apologize.

Perhaps a can sneak a cheeky 2nd question in here, do you know any good firefox add ons to display page rank

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Also be sure to read this SEOmoz blog post on the subject by Carson Ward at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unnatural-link-warnings-blog-networks-advice

WOW Thank you so much Phil - Very Kind of you