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Did you consolidate many domains into the .com, or just move the domain over completely from .co.uk to .com? In which countries have your rankings dropped? I am guessing UK.

The backlinks you have are not on great websites. Have you tried to get listed in places like the UK's version of the Better Business Bureau? Put in some work doing some guest posting and I bet your rankings will go up.

My guess is that if your rankings have dropped mostly in the UK, that it's the loss of the .co.uk ccTLD, which is definitely not an insurmountable hurdle, just might take a bit more work.

Oh I see now. I honestly thought your site was myclient.co.uk. I see my mistake!

If OSE has picked up the 301, when you type in your old domain it will say something like "That URL redirects to (new url). Would you like to see that URL?"

Also, to spot-check server header responses, I use this tool: http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/check-server-headers-tool/

Hey Andrew -

From what I'm seeing in the OSE index and in my browser, you moved the content over to your new domain but did not forward your old domain. I know you said that you had a lot of links to your homepage on www.myclient.co.uk, and since you did not 301 this page and older pages, you've lost all your links.

Can you explain why you did not 301 your old domain?

Hey Ericc -

Thanks for your question! Could you expand a bit more on what you mean by SEO benefits of using Lulu? I used to work in publishing and know some people who have published through Lulu. I believe you are correct that you can distribute on Amazon through it, as I think they use Ingram as their provider/carrier/lister.

If I were you, I think publishing through Lulu is fine, but I'd also get a copy of it and put it on your site. If your site has a decent following, maybe try running a social campaign around it to get more traction. The "Free Download" title often will help get downloads as well.

So I'd recommend putting it on your site. You may be able to get a link back to your site from Lulu (I'm not sure about this), which would be a quality link as it's a strong domain, so if you can do this send the link to your eBook-specific page.

John

As I just told Dan on Twitter, I built out a spreadsheet a few months ago that is linked to in this post: http://bit.ly/mc0Q9v.

You'll have to use your own Moz free API key and hack the sheet a little bit, but it uses the Moz and Twitter APIs to pull the Moz metrics (DA, PA, etc) into a Google doc.

Good luck Dan and anyone else who reads this!