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Thanks for the feedback. I agree, it seems to be google specific.

Scratch that, webmaster tools is showing manual action. Now the fun part...

I'm a bit baffled by this one and would love if someone in the community could help provide some clarity!

In general, my website (PSG1.com) is indexed and cached correctly. The exception is that the homepage is actually cached as plasticsurgerygroupnewjersey.com, another domain we own.

1. Header checkers all confirm that plasticsurgerygroupnewjersey.com redirects to PSG1.com, not the other way around
2. No canonical is set for that domain.

At one time, I used the Moz toolbar to view attributes and it registered PSG1.com as having a response code of both 200 and 301 to plasticsurgerygroupnewjersey.com. However, I cannot replicate this.

Any idea why the homepage of PSG1.com is not indexed/cached correctly? I appreciate your wisdom!

TJ,

Why send the source info through the form? Are you passing it your CRM or something?

I typically just utilize Google Analytics to track the source. You can set a custom variable with the lead's name into GA if you want to match up leads.The avantage is that you can also track other lead sources like organic, social, etc. in addition to PPC.

Of course, if you're doing really high volume, this isn't real efficient.

-Rick

Could always give it a whirl...

Here's what I'd do.

First, check big stuff like:

• Did your URLs change? Is so, were redirects applied?
• Did your devs accidentally noindex or nofollow entire sections of the site? I've seen this happen a bunch.

If neither of the above, I'd next dig deep with analytics to try to figure out if there is a certain pages, type of pages (product page, articles, blog, etc), etc. that have taken the biggest hit.It may give you more direction. Could also:

• Review Webmaster tools
• Run a site scanner link ScreamingFrog and look for big errors

You could always try blocking new stuff but you never know how long it's gonna take google to come back and honor your changes.

Site Review Webinar/Workshop

Get 3 (REAL) Mozzer websites and do a quick onsite and link/competitor review (screen share). Let the pros at SEOmoz school us on website reviews! It would be good to review different types of sites (maybe 1 brochure website, 1 eCommerce website and one content website).

Maybe try some keyword themed around military/army/navy + preparation?

'Bootcamp' fitness stuff is huge right now (especially with crossfit and similar stuff becoming so popular) so it's gonna be challenging.

Really depends on the products you're selling. I do like Rob's answer about keeping the page live and offering an alternative or capturing an interest list. You still want the sale or to create the lead so providing some sort of call to action is key if these are significant.

If the product is never coming back, I'd def redirect to a close match or a parent category.

Can you give away products? Maybe target a few influential bloggers and send them a product sample for review?

Well said, I agree. There's too much uncertainty. I'd be shocked if anyone could guesstimate (at the keyword-level) with any decent level of accuracy. Overall % improvements are a bit easier to ballpark guesstimate.

Yahoo can be ssssllllllooooowwwww.

Part of me wants to say, "If Google can't find the link on it's own, then you don't need the link."

The other part wants to say, "BookmarkingDemon is great for helping Google find your links."

One answer is better when writing a blog post about ethical SEO. The other, a realistic way to get 'garbage' links indexed (even if they still won't be worth much).

Tell your boss that the website's flux capacitor will get overloaded without a good meta description.

Curious if you check your rankings that often? Must drive you crazy!

I really only look at webmaster tool data as search is personalized, localized, etc. Are you looking from the same browser each time (like just refreshing the page)?

Almost everything these days is DB driven! I see no issues and the same optimization rules apply. Yes, google just sees the final rendered version of the page so aside from potentially slower load times, it all looks the same!

Once it's crawl-able, go to town!

I'd almost certainly first try to use it as a micro-site. Would it be big deal to do a quick overhaul (not sure what your business is)? If you can generate leads from it, why risk a fishy redirect? Either way, could always link from the new domain to your existing and pass some of that link love.

Agree with Brandon too that more info is needed but I can't think of much that would convince me to do otherwise without trying this first.

Good luck

Some of these directories take data dumps from DMOZ (http://www.dmoz.org/rdf.html). So I guess it all depends when they grabbed the data last.

Hey Roy,

It's an interesting debate. On one hand, every page can be a landing page so you want to maximize opportunities. On the other, how much is too much. I guess you could put it all over and measure it's usage and make a decision based on that?

Hey Gary,

I partially agree with Cafe. However, I wouldn't remove any redirects for URLs which may have backlinks. Maybe it would be a good idea to figure out if any of the redirects which you are removing are from URLs that have earned links? An Open Site Explorer link export would help you figure out if any of those URLs still have value.

Neither will necessarily work better. In the old days, news and blogs all seemed to use dates. Problem is that dates don't really add any value so why not just keep it keyword rich with category and article name? If you're going to submit the site as a Google News Source, you may want to read http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68323.