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just leave it. Double check for errors on it.

straight up disavow them, although some links could indeed pass as good links

Personally, Ive seen attacks like this stop within a few days. I would look at your website for any sort of hacking. Invisible links on the page are usually the main thing. They spam you after getting the links on your site.

if it was indeed caused by submitting the sitemap, its too late for you to worry about it. My vote, another coincidence. Ive actually experienced this twice and i got my rankings back by analysing where i went wrong with the tech/structure.

With an alexa like that, you probably have a big site. Try to find a "main" problem and fix that first rather than going for different changes all at one time.

no, not really. Ive had some up for years, not really a problem.

Ive had experienced that multiple times with clients lol

• First thing I would do is check the competition. IF it's harder than the rest of the other cities/localities. Some cities have specific keywords that work better, too. Local is very easy to spam so there might be some competitors that are battling it out there. You might just be collateral damage from the recent updates to local.
• The next thing i would look at is how search results show. Is google showing you different serp results vs the other cities? Google might show more images/carousels or whatever for that city vs the others. Google is crazy like that.
• Links. Start building links (just a few of them will do) to test and see if you improve within the next week. If you do, then you need to start bothering yourself with competition + link building for that lol

Those are the basic things that id do first, assuming, like what you said, that everything on-page related and technical side are ok.

from all my years, there's really no difference for me. I would suggest using the "-" for your internal content url structures since it would make it easier for readers to understand but i would advice against the dash on the main domain name.

I would ignore that problem since its a pretty small niche. Google wont even think of doing anything in a very small niche since it wont be able to show much relevant links so its forced to show your site no matter what. But like Chris said, it generally, youll need to do it for building relationships and citing authoritative websites.

i cant really answer that because i do not see the purpose of other sites. Reciprocal links arent really needed but you might just be thinking of maybe the 3 will pass link juice back to the main site. Honestly, you can just do it. It's just a few and it doesnt really matter at this moment. Just focus on other link building work instead of worrying about it

Good luck Gagan

you mean the sitelinks that show up below the result of your site?

If yes, then you can go to google webmaster tools and remove that by inserting the URL that you dont want to show up in the SERPS.

they are testing things right now but what you see with authorship is pretty normal. If you homepage shows both rel author and rel publisher, it will show the author most of the time. They dont show the logo/publisher picture in the serps normally but they have started testing it recently.

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)

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.

whoops! Sorry if i offended you, I thought you were new as a lot of people asking are kinda new to SEO. Im really sorry about that!

It is tricky especially in the adult niche but for escort niches, usually, from what Ive worked on, isnt as hard as the porn sites who hammer the hell out of their sites with blackhat tactics.

Good luck with the fixes and I wish you and the company much success.

Go for exact match domains, web 2.0 blogs and profiles, and social profiles. Make them legitimate and link to them (or interlink them)

Some should get traction and push the article down. It sucks, but people like that exist in this world, but karma is a b*tch and they will pay for it

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.

I would start with focusing as much time as possible on fixing the site. Including technical issues and your canonical issues (www redirect, too)

Im not familiar with your internet laws though so I can't recommend any aggressive work. I would just start looking at existing competitors, see what they are doing (use OSE for one) to know what's working for them, and then apply a similar but better strategy. Combine this with other link building strategies and you will be just fine. If they arent doing any seo, then you should see faster results. BTW, since you are new, don't overuse your anchor text ok? Good luck!

Like a facebook business page but with better communication and relationship management with the "fanbase"

plus the local seo part works (if it's part of your strategy)

I also create a community for sites that I could create one on. It increases the communication with them and keeps them aware of your brand.

Hardest part is actually getting most of the people on G+ lol. The best/hardcore ones are usually there, but the others you want to potentially target, are usually not active (yet)

I would just update the content. If it's already irrelevant then youll see more users leaving. I wouldnt worry about it losing traffic because of that. You might actually be able to get more traffic once its properly optimised with other keywords that you've already gotten using analytics from past traffic.

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thats a pretty small drop. Not really penalty worthy. Build better links and drive more traffic. Plus, the algorithm is still changing now, so you will see changes within the next few weeks. Start building the good links now.

in my experience, scraper sites should be left for last. Contact them and just put them in the disavow list using domain:xxxxx  (scrapers are "natural" in a way in this current form of internet we are using lol so they dont matter much to me)

I would instead find others that have contributed more to the penalty first, like obvious blog networks and stuff like that.