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There could be loads of reasons for this.

Personalised search results? I didn't confirm you are number 1 but maybe just number one in your google results

New domain given a big boost in google. Usually drops off within 2-3 weeks

Google is going through some major serps upheaval at the moment and there is a lot of spurious links ranking highly. Maybe you are benefiting from this.

Thanks

Hi Keri,

It's the manual crawl that has given me old data. Do you know how long is the cache on the manual crawl?

I set the seomoz bot on a crawl of the site yesterday andit identified several broken links and duplicate content.

I fixed them and wanted to make sure it was done correctly so I sent it on another crawl of the same domain. The same results came back so I presume the old pages were cached.

How long do I need to leave between each run?

Set up on the new server the identical site and test it works. You can usually preview the site via the ip or change your hostsfile on your computer so when you enter the web address it takes you to your new ip (but the rest of the world see's your old site still).

Get it all up and stable, check everything. All you need to do then is change the dns to point to the new server.

If you have a systems admin you can get them to change the ttl a few days before to a smaller number so that the dns transition is picked up more quickly around the world.

Some important rules:

• Don't do it on a Friday as you might need to roll back something if it goes wrong and you may need support staff who could be unavailable on a weekend.
• Give yourself plenty of time. More than you think
• Don't forget to update any email dns settings etc
• Make sure everyone is aware email might be delayed while dns is transitioning
• check your dns transition across the globe here http://www.whatsmydns.net/
• Don't switch off you old hosting for at least a few days maybe a week. Some websites may still be reading your old ip address and you never know you might need to do an urgent roll back to the old server if something nasty happens.

If you need a systems admin who can do this all for you I can heartidly recommend mine.

Could you add links back to the homepage for the keyword term the category outranks you for. This self cannilbilsation of the keyword could give google a clue on how you see your pages.

I've read that some people have suffered a penalty from sites that rel-can links to one page that are not at all duplicate. I have just inherited an ecommerce site that rel-can almost everything (all the products) to the brand name pages. I undid this and the rankings dropped like a stone so it looks like sometimes you can get away with rel-can no similar content.

Thanks for that additional information I was unaware of that.

In this case the company has 1 location and I have achieved rankings in the second location as that is where 80% of their target market is.

Hi,

You can probably tell I'm new to seomoz and I'm exploring all the functions. At the moment I am waiting on a Keyword Analysis Report to be generated and emailed to me. I presume this is more detailed than the quick on screen report but at the moment it's about 4 hours and I wondered if something has gone wrong or whether it is ok.

Thank you.

Thanks. I'm from the UK and I presumed postal address translated to USA mailing address.

City 2 is their physical headquarters walk-in off the street address.

I've optimised a site well for a Keyword + City1 however I'd like to set them up on Google places too. Trouble is they have a mailing address in a second city (only 10 miles apart). Will making a google places using City2 mean that the rankings for City1 are negatively affected?

Thank you

I still think that your anchor linking profile is too heavily weighted to the one term as it's over 60% the one keyword phrase. I don't profess to be an "expert" so it would be good for others to pitch in but a natural looking profile would be 80% brand name (company name) or that's the case if you check a site that hasn't had seo done to it.

My experience of an over optimised anchor penalty is that you get relegated to the bottom of the pack in terms of searches. ie. you appear after all other relevant searches. Often this can be around 10 pages.

On all those examples the same anchor text is used. Maybe you have overused the anchor text and it has fallen foul of a penalty?

Keep building but use some naked url links and brand name links to the same page or if you have good relationships with some of those sites ask to edit it to link from the company name not from the keyword rich anchor.

Note: I've only looked at the three samples above and have not looked at the backlinks for the site in question.