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Have you continued link building work on the current domain ever since you 301'ed it? It's really a tricky situation. It could be due to old links on the original domain (especially after penguin in may and the monthly pandas)

If you are sure that the technical issues are the main cause for your drops, then you better move it. Magento is actually pretty seo friendly and since you have a dev, then it's even easier. I would not recommend wordpress for big ecommerce sites so it will depend on your site's size.

Definitely possible. It used to be much easier. You can rank for 5 pages, all your stuff LOL. good old days

Anyway, try to look at the social pages/forums, etc already ranking there where you can put your content. Those are great signals that tell you that you can create content on those and rank those pages (link to them to make the % higher)

If high trust domains like what you mentioned aren't ranking there, you need to test it. And if you said that the keywords are easy enough, then your chances for those to show up is really good.

Yes, it's possible to be penalised for a single page or single keyword.

Your page has mostly  san diego domestic violence lawyer as the anchor text. You might want to stop doing that altogether.

I didnt take a look at your competitors though so they might be more SEO, but there's a possibility that you got a minor penalty for that keyword phrase.

Co-authorship is definitely possible.

If you are on wordpress you can use this https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/

It's pretty much the same concept for other platforms.

When we handle big sites like this, there are a lot of possible problems that we face, some of which are

• the traditional ecommerce problem of "unique content" - maybe generic content or copied from a supplier (not saying you are doing this, Im just putting it out there)
• another traditional problem with category pages and it's contents

These 2 could affect rankings. Honestly, 404's dont matter much for us unless it's a vital part of the site, not on any pages of the site or if it had a lot of links pointing to it previously

if it's worthless, we just let them die, so GWT can stop bugging us with it by next year lol.

The 301 is actually the first thing that could be blamed as it might not be able to pass the same juice as it could before all the algo updates. You could try restoring the old site on a new CMS that you choose and run this side by side but it might be too much trouble.

Is it a big site? If not just start it from scratch while using the same url/content.

If it's a huge site, then that's another problem. You have the find the best pages, check analytics. Identify the most important pages. Prune the rest.

Since there's nothing you can do to get the backup, outside of a lawsuit, then I would just go that route. As for the redesign, you can actually pitch for that to happen ASAP so there's no time wasted. Have the data for the URLs lined up neatly in a spreadsheet with content already save for the important pages.

We don't really know the whole situation, but if it's wordpress or some cms, IF you have backend login, there's a plugin to just backup the whole thing to s3 or anywhere you want. Download it from there and put it up on your server.

Actually, this is pretty hard to answer. I've experienced different timeframes. Some in as short as a week but most took a couple months. It could be dependent on the country or the search term or even the site. That's based on my experience though.

1. It says URL because you entered the exact page of where your link is on. If you want to disavow the whole domain since it is bad anyway, then just use

domain:thatbaddomain.com instead of the full url

2. use the domain code above.

If you want an easier way to cut to root domains, then use scrapebox, SEO Tools for excel or http://www.seoweather.com/trim-urls-to-root-domain-standardise-urls-prefixes/

Hope that helps!

Definitely a possible reason as you are already losing traffic from it already. Something you should look at ASAP. Those pages should be redirecting to the correct, new pages so I'm wondering why they werent properly 301'ed. Was the 301 service only sending your previous homepage to the new homepage and not per page? (Or even old pages to the new homepage)

It's not a problem, just fix those as soon as you can. And yes, it does affect crawl rate from what I've seen.

Hi BB

I have tried this before (on different boxes though) and it didn't cause any issues.

I would still advice to at least change bits of the content if possible. The design and everything could be the same.

It's kind of hard to understand this situation but Ill take a crack.

Dont worry about Panda as long as you aren't one of those that squeeze the same grammatically wrong keyword phrases, over and over and over. Optimize the new content for the weaker words -> include those target key phrases -> internally link to the main page you want those to be optimized.

Depends on how fast your pages get crawled again, which depends on your niche and your domain trust as well.

Ive gotten badly optimised ecom sites to rank by just making great onpage seo changes. In a highly competitive space, you will see less "drastic" jumps but you'll still be able to see it. Be sure to add great unique content on your category pages ok?

Hi,

If you have already checked those (i would assume you have already checked everything, from internal linking, navigation, speed, structure, codes etc) then it might just be a temporary shuffle. It's also possible that those that are linking to you might have been affected negatively hence weakening your position.

Wordpress based will always be more flexible. I havent used SS for a year though. I've seen all their recent changes and how they've taken the right steps to better SEO but I would still lean on Wordpress/Magento. If you have a few products, then you might want to try out SS. If you have experience with Wordpress in the past, then jump on to that but be sure you have a fast server. If you have a LOT of products, go with magento

You can deal with this in a practical manner. You can think of it from the point of view of the searcher.

Practical thinking would tell me that the person would either look for on Google (a separate page about it) OR if he can't find it, then he'll go to the page where he bought and look there, maybe there's an FAQ section on that specific product page or a link to the resource area.

As a 1st time buyer, I would not know immediately that there's a resource page so Google is my first choice.

So I would go with a separate page, specifically for that item, then link back to the product page

The product page should also link to that page.

Personally, I would stay away from Cloudflare (dont hate me LOL)

W3 Cache is good. I love WP Rocket though.

MaxCDN (find a coupon for a discount)

Then any host that you can find that passes your standard. This one is subjective. People think mediatemple is really fast, I've experienced both sides of the coin. Inmotion, heck even hostgator is good. The only advice i could give is to try and test them. Rackspace has been great for me if you like a cloud host but I find digital ocean to be acceptable for me as well as Im not going for ultra fast.

Noindex tags and your author page (if you only have 1 author)

For categories, leave it alone, just add a bit of unique content there, much like how ecommerce sites do it.

Not really a big deal but their tool is pretty useful. If you dont have to spend more than 2 minutes, just do it.

Hyphens have worked for me in the past in terms of rankings so I dont doubt the "ranking potential" but i stopped using them as much as possible for my users sakes mainly.

It does affect the SEO, like it gets broken links since people misplace the hyphen or the link is without a hyphen so another site benefits.

That URL length of yours is ok already. Obviously, I would again prefer an easy-to-remember URL so the shorter and more targeted, the better for me. It's a preference thing.