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We recently change the layout of our website to a responsive theme in the hope of improve our rankings. We are getting less more traffic but less conversions to sales.

Our Spam sore has these flagged No Contact Info - we have the phone number on top of every page and a contact us link at the bottom of every page  - Is there something we are missing ?

Low Number of Pages Found - we have over 3000 products each of which has a page, plus other info pages on our stite - Whay would this be flagged.RegardsAdrienne

where would we go identify the links that are bad

is there a way to get a list of each individual link not just the site and number from the site

we are trying to clean up our site and believe we have bad back links

can any one tell me how to work out which ones to disavow

Is there a way to disable the review feature on our Google+ page whilst still retaining the rest of the Google+ features?

Can anyone please recommend a program which identifies what the most common search keywords are in relation to our industry? One of our businesses is fancy dress costume, the other is wedding gowns/formal wear.

Is Google Plus really very beneficial to a business, as our experience is that this is where difficult customers or even competitors can write bad reviews?

On our website we have some invisible/hidden categories on our site. Can anyone advise whether these are harmful in terms of SEO?

In our Costume Themes category on our website, http://www.costumedirect.com.au/themes/, the links direct to search pages with URLs containing the term '?search'. For example, the 'Edward Scissorhands' link directs to http://www.costumedirect.com.au/search.php?search_query=edward. Will the question mark and 'search' in our URL affect the page quality and rankings? Thank you.

Does anyone have any experience with the advantages of using a search product like SLI in comparison to the search available on Bigcommerce.

We currently use SLI for the searches on our site but think over the years we have been using SLI that the searches on Bigcommerce have improved and we are thinking of switching back to using the Bigcommerce search.

Regards

Adrienne

Hi Alan,

Once again thanks for the advise. It makes a lot of sense when I add it to the information I have worked out while trying to improve our site. Also a lot of these menus etc. were added about the time the rankings dropped.

Just a question. I have removed a lot of the unnessary links on the bottom of the pages.

The way our platform works, we have a home page - which I have removed the right side menus and left side.

On the product page we have removed the right side menus etc. also a lot of the left side - just leaving the wish list.

On the category page - we are wondering whether we should also remove the right side menus ?

Regards

Adrienne

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your advise.

I think most of the things you mentioned were set up by an expert we had working here and also are features of the platform we us.

I am working on removing the excess links at the bottom of the pages, and will work through your other sugestions.

They sound like they will help us.

Thanks

Hi

It dropped November 2013.

Regards

Hi Rebecca,

Our site dropped ranking November 2013.

Regards

Adrienne

Thanks,

I will try both of those.

Regards

Thanks

http://www.costumedirect.com.au/

Regards

Adrienne

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your response. As far as I know we have no warnings in webmaster tools. I am not sure how to tell which links are damaging. Some have been removed.

We lost about 50% of traffic organic traffic. Our site dropped from 1st page to 3-10 page.

Regards

Adrienne

A couple of years ago the ranking on our site dropped over night. I believe someone working here at the time purchased links about that time. We have been doing lots of work on the site since then to improve it. We can not get our rankings back up on google searches.

Can anyone give us some advise about what to do or where to go for some help that we can trust.

We noticed recently on our site - that our H1 tag was the Company Name - we changed this to be the product name - our products would be searched for by all or part of the description.

Our sales have dropped of the days since we changed it, could it be a result of this change ?

Is it best to have the H1 tag as the product name ?

We have 2 sites that have been set up slightly differently. On 1 site we have the Company name in the H1 and the product name in the page title and H2. On the other site we have the Product name in the H1 and no H2.

Does anyone have any advise about the best information to have in the H1 and H2

Does anyone know if we have to have a paid addwords campain for our products to appear in google shopping.

We have a feed set up for google shopping.

We have addwords campaigns running for google.

But our products do not seem to appear in google shopping.

Any advise on how to get them there?