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It has been said by a few recently that google has been rubbishing the search results to drive searchers more twoard the paid results. Not sure if this is true or not, but it'd be a huge shame and googles downfall if it were true.

Your rankings MAY come back, but it is a big change in googles eyes, even though it's not. The age of your new domain will keep your rankings down, as will the non direct links to your new site.

Google can and most probably will pull the carpet from under you not matter what you do, so your best bet is to NOT rely on google.

I hope your rankings return quickly, but don't get your hopes up.

Check WMT for any notices too. Check for any new spammy links pointing to/from the site.

Neg seo has been talked about a lot lately.

If that's the only change you made, yes I would say that it the most likely cause.

When G starts replacing with pages that are not as relative you can consider it may have something to do with a penalty.

Start looking at duplicate content, spammy links to or from the page/site, over optimization, bounce rates etc.

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Do the other sites have a physical address on their sites? Do you?

Do you have a google places listing?

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What Klarke said, but also let your client consider a reconsideration request with google after the redesign.

Google can sometimes be forgiving, and I believe that if you are seen to make a genuine effort to change/clean up your site you can get back to where you were.

A lot of the time spammy links when noticed by G are simply devalued and this is what causes the drop in rankings and a lot of the time what seems like a never ending penalty can be lifted the next day.

With the addition of google bringing in the link reporting tool into WMT your client could also have a chance to wash thier hands of the spammy links.

That's the problem with most sitebuilder type prgrams, they are very limited.

Perhaps look at your site title, and page titles. Usually the site title will be the included on all of your webpages followed by the page title so you could simply name your site www.yourcompany.com then add an individual page title to each page.

A robots.txt file is not supposed to be added to every page and only tells the bots what to crawl, and what not to.

If you can edit the htaccess, you should be able to get to the individual pages and insert/change the code for titles, just be aware that doing it manually can work, but sometimes when you go back to make an edit in the builder it may undo all of your manual changes, if that's the case, get your site perfect, then do the individual code changes as the last change.

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If you can't change the titles yes. Don't worry about alexa, it is not a real indication of traffic and the rankings are not stable for at least a year or so, even then you are wasting your time looking at your alexa rank, it's a gimick.

If they were boosting your rankings you will need to regain more backlinks, but proper backlinks so it may take a while. Google can leave the info for up to 4 months, not sure about Seomoz.

Why is it a big deal?

How about noindexing the page?

You could put a small "latest news section" on the HP.

Or just select on the specific page a more frequent update setting on your sitemap. Should get it crawled quicker.

Yes bing and yahoo gives almost identical results. Select Arabian countires in Bing and you should be ok.

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Sorry, do you mean titles ?

So why can;t you put the images on the page, rather than have done it by using a gallery and linking to that?

Nofollowing the links may help, but the quickest/best soloution until you find a permanenet one would be to simply undo what you did then go to webmaster tools and remove the urls form the index.

The seomoz PA only gets updated every no and them it seems.

If the only difference is a / I don't think it would make any difference, as long as both get to the same page.

Site: and link: isn;t indicitive of google penalties. There are many different penalties that can be dished out and you will almost always be left in the dark about them.

If you have been link building, check that. Google is huge on unnatural linking now.

It will take some time, have you checked on multiple search engines?

Did you get your answer Kath?

Interesting, have you checked out there backlink profile?

Can you find any others?

What is your website visitor counter like per month? Same as the source you are getting this info from ?

Look at the site above you (adowrds )and below you, if you were looking for your services/products, who would you click on, honestly ?

Probably just an off CTR counter, wherever you are getting the info from.