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It's best to get rid of 'tag' pages as this only creates duplicate content if you feel you must use them then add noindex, follow meta tags.

I personally use the thesis theme and with all styling etc aside it turns your CMS into something on steroids and there isn't a need for any SEO plugins

I'm not really sure if you can call that a real test as social media takes along time but saying that you do now have a base to work from why not carry on with your experiment and and take note of everything then tweek alittle and record that.

Obviously I don't know how much traffic your site gets but I'd say a 7% increase is good especially for what you have done.

I'd keep going and see how you get on and don't forget to report back

Yea I agree if everything is kept the same you shouldn't see much difference but you should expect a drop and prepare for this.

That said you need to ensure the new CMS is capable of accommodation the  changes, again be well prepared.

If you intent to make changes then ensure you follow all the necessary steps and procedures that come with a site migration.

As it effected the ranking last time you can be sure it will happen again, you might want to ask yourself why your wanting to change content management systems and weight up the pros and cons, I have a site on CMSMS and I personally don't like it but each to their own

agreed

No probs you too

I see

I don't really think it's a massive problem but to improve it why dont you take out the drop downs so rather then everything being one click away its 2 clicks

For example turn the parent pages into hubs of that category and this will cut down total number of links on pages across the site.

I hope that made sense 

Also I noticed your using tags,  I advise against these but if your going to use them you should noindex, follow these pages I checked a few and they were indexed.

This of course can cause duplicate content issues.

Hey Christoph,

I think you should be more concerned by your users navigating the site rather than Google. I don't think it's really that important on the amount of link but rather the type of link and where they are on your site.

If I were you I would work on your site architecture and create a better navigation for your users and an organised site will of course be crawled better.

Also organising your site into a few categories will help the engines to sort and better understand your site and it's content but don't go over board and remember categories are a tool to help you organise your site, so pages shouldn't really need multiple categories.

Hope this helps

Erm well I guess it depends on how dominant and broad the keywords your going after are.

Are you tracking long tail and still seeing no results?

Comparing to a pre seo report you'd expect to see at least something.

Yea strange one although I have seen it take month myself with very little improvement and then rapid growth.

At least you can use this as an example to the new client

Good luck man.

Well done first of all, result!

What was the age of the domain?

Otherwise was it around the time of any major updates? It could have been one of the many minor changes to the algo that could have just tipped the balance for you?

Search for gzip in your plugins page

Hey

Why not just set the main domain so its tracked by the US, UK and FR search engines and then enter your keywords for each language these will then be easily picked out in an excel sheet.

The only ones you might have problems with are the UK and US with it being the same language but that is just a little bit more excel filtering.

Hope this helps

Good luck

I think this could be rolled out into search too!