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You might want to consider doing both at the same time. Rehab your main site while you simultaneously build a new site. My thinking is hypothetical here but I believe it is worth a shot. What happens if you keep your main site and try to rehab but nothing ever fixes it because so much damage has been done? Or what happens if you dump that site to start a new one and it takes you years to get to where you once were, or possibly you could lose so much ground to others that you might never catch up. Now by doing a simultaneous site campaign you can give yourself 6 months to a year of hard work on both to see which one has the best results and then reassess your situation. Now this only works by not interlinking your sites. Google will think you are trying to game them instead of your real goal of having a clean link profile with a legit site. Once the test is done and you've determined which site is the strongest you can then 301 redirect one to the other. Just a thought.

I hear you, I've had similar frustrations and I'm currently looking to change my host. I've come across this site http://www.seohost.com/why-seo-host.html , I'm still doing my research but from what I've gathered so far, you want a site that gives you 99.99% uptime, great bandwidth, not in a bad server neighborhood, 24/7 customer support and complete access to your C panel and htaccess. If I find a great one that I go with I'll send you the info and please do the same if you find one. Good luck.

Ok, then follow the other steps of contacting the webmasters and ask them to remove, you can also let google know about these links which will show them that you did not want them and you are actively looking to remove them. Hope it goes well.

Head over to google web masters and demote the links. this will let google know that they are not wanted. Also contact the site owner and ask them to remove. Last step is to contact Google and inform them of your findings. Hope this helps.

You would want to implement the 301 redirect by going through the htaccess of your server. This redirect is the most effective. If you don't have access to the htaccess then a 301 redirect with php should do the trick. Also don't forget to do it for every page. A lot of companies actually buy a bunch of variations of their domain so that a competitor doesn't buy a second version for negative purposes or for link ads.

The true power of Press Release submission is not in spammy press releases but in having a real issue to write a press release about and then making sure it gets printed and posted online by a real news site. If you can do that then you will get a coveted journalistic link that google loves. What your competitor is doing is not a long term strategy. Even if it is working now, at some point google will catch them and they will spend a lot of time fixing the issue. Just continue posting legitimate content on your blog and site and every now and then do something news worthy so you can then get a media mention online, in papers, radio and on tv. Charitable giving and actions go a long way.

If the domain name is a solid one that has the ability to stick in your clients head then it might make sense to buy the domain and spend a few months rehabbing the quality of links. If you have the financial ability then I would buy it, use google webmasters to identify the bad links, reach out to the site owners and request they remove the links, send a report to google showing the work you've done. Then I would work on getting positive links for your site by getting mentions in online news sites, edu sites and others. You can accomplish this by hosting a small charity event. Also have your customers write reviews on Yelp and similar sites. Yahoo Directory link and BBB link. Time heals all wounds including bad links.

I would set up a 301 redirect for all the pages regardless if they are indexed or not. You never know if anyone might look for that page at some point and end up seeing a 404 page not found message.

There are some basics to look at. How are your Title tags? Google gives more relevance to your first keyword in your title tag. Example: Local Real Estate / Local Homes for sale . In this case google will give more weight to the local Real Estate keyword than the second.

That is why most SEO pro's will recommend to focus on one keyword per page. That does mean you would need two great pages and to link build for both. Hard work yes but in the long term will benefit you.

Otherwise you will need to make sure that one page is optimized for both keywords and your link building efforts focuses on both keywords.

• Google frowns on buying links so don't do it
• Google doesn't like spamming sites for links
• They also don't like link exchanges.
• Keywords above the fold are important also

Hope this helps

I would use Google Webmasters tools and head over to the internal links. It will give you all the info that Google is looking at and indexing.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for your feedback.

Thanks, What do you think about the RE/MAX Site that you mentioned that is on page 1 for Bronx Real Estate? Is that site built well?

Thank you for your input. The site is new and since I am on a limited budget I am working on it myself. I wish I had the four seasons budget, lol.

My Moto is "When without resources, be resourceful"

I'm a Realtor that picked up a book on web design and went to work on it.  You should have seen the first iteration of the site. You would have had a great laugh.  The site definitely has a long way to go but that is why I am asking for feedback. I appreciate your candidness.

So based on your recommendations I shouldn't use HTML and CSS? I'm using Dreamweaver as my HTML Editor. The content I am currently rewriting because I do see it needs work.

What would be a good website architecture?

If I do change over to word press as my platform how would that impact my rankings?

Again Thank you for your advice. That is what I like about this community, the willingness to help.

This is a Real Estate Website focusing on a local market.

• What would you change about this site for SEO Purposes?
• What would you change for Conversion Purposes?
• What would you change for Visual Appeal and User Experience?

Thank you all for your help on this one.

http://www.bronxpad.com

Hello Ray,

First I want to say you have a really nice website. It's clean, responsive and well put together. You seem to be in the category of sites that were hit by the algo without it being warranted. The only thing I see is a lot of usage of the word Canvas, but then again you need to use that word because it is your product. The question is what can you do to resolve this.

1. Contact Google directly and make an appeal ( Might not work since it was an algo hit and not manual )
2. Do nothing and let it fix itself. This can work because Google does recognize that this is happening to legitimate sites.
3. Re Write your content and try to find alternative words and phrase variations.

Also this might not be about keywords at all. What I tent to do is first audit my site. Then I audit the site of my competitors above and below me on the SERPS. What I gather from this is if anyone else is doing SEO work and moving up the ranks and in effect knocking me down.

Remember SEO is a Grind. You need to always be working on it.

I hope this helps.

Hello Jason,

I understand where you are coming from. I was in a similar boat. My site is under a year old and I am in the Real Estate industry which is extremely competitive online. My tactic is multifaceted.

1. Write Great Content
2. Market site & Content on all social media platforms
3. Host or Sponsor a local event and then write a press release and send to your local reporters.
4. Blog like crazy, Google loves fresh content
5. Make sure your internal link structure is set up properly.
6. Network with other local websites
7. Guest Blog on similar sites as yours
8. Pay Per Click Campaign is a good temp option
9. Focus on Conversions, better 10 visitors and 7 sales than 1000 visitors and no sale.
10. Be patient, SEO is a long term commitment.

I hope this helps. Good Luck

From my experience I see that every site no matter how big or small is vulnerable. I'm a Realtor and my focus is to get that coveted top spot on page 1. Currently I'm in the number 7 spot for one of my main keywords and for other keywords I'm high on page 1 or on page 2.

Now who is on top? the national brands. But even they get impacted because they compete against each other and for some terms I beat them in the SERPS. I use Long Tail Keywords in order to do this.

Now, Google is fine tuning their search bots and there will of course be movement up and down for some sites. The thing to remember is to make sure you focus on the long term.

1. Great Content
2. Blog
3. Social Media
4. Ease of use for your web visitor
5. On Page SEO
6. Natural Link building
7. Infographics
8. Video
9. Off Line Marketing
10. SEO Continuing Education

I'm not sure what you mean?

All the links are to other pages on my site. Neighborhood info pages. What I'm looking to do is consalodate the sidebar links by having just an "Bronx Neighborhoods Link " and on that one page will have the 16 neighborhood links that people can choose from. My home page is on page 1 for my main keywords so I'm wondering if this would have a negative or positive impact on my rankings.

Basically I'm changing the location of the links. Im keeping the file names so the individual neighborhood pages will still be the same but instead of being on every page they will be on one page like Bronx Neighborhoods page and then people can choose which link from there. On my side bar I'll be creating a link to the page Bronx Neighborhoods and that one link will be on every page. Consolidation of the sidebar to make way for more important links and content. My concern is that my home page ranks well for my main keywords, im on page 1, and I'm just wondering what type of impact this could have. Not sure.