Welcome to the Q&A Forum

The 301s were not right, but we fixed 99% of them in early December. I did double check them this week. Not sure what else to look for.

We have no direct relationships with anyone. Every link we got just appeared, nobody made an effort to get any. We didn't have a lot of great links anyway. We never had an SEO strategy. We used out of the box software for a decade. Than in Early November we launched a redesigned site and got killed organically. I don't think anyone made a decision to drop us as a link because we never had a strategy and to be honest didn't have that great of links with the few we did have. I will run Majestic now and see what it shows. I really think this is something on our end. We had great developers, but they don't know a lot about seo.

Changing it to a 301 makes sense. Do I need to change for both with the www and without? I have never quite figured out if that counts as two different urls or not.

The only reason we still use the one with the hyphens is because we have been using the same domain name for over ten years.

I am not showing any link spam but I did use ahrefs and a few things came up. We lost 90 backlinks in one day at the end of November. Overal in two months we have gone from 1800 backlinks to 1600. At the end of December we had 380 referring domains and it dropped to 227 in one day, not back up to 330.

I am showing no soft 404s and no server errors. Where would I see the 404s? We actually don't use cms we had a site custom built.

I am showing no soft 404s and no server errors. Where would I see the 404s? We actually don't use cms we had a site custom built.

I used screaming from and didn't see any duplicates. All status codes were 200. What else should I be looking for?

How do I find out in WMT if they were internal or external? Three things in WMT that seem like problems. End of December have about 250k indexed pages. The following week we have 80k. Mid November we have about 3k not found now we have 225k not found. For the sitemap we have about 18k submitted and only 9k indexed.

We have never had a link building campaign or paid for a single link. Even if they were diluted, wouldn't they still show up in open site?

Originally they were all 302s, we had that changed to 301s. in mid December. We started to see improvement after that though. We never had anyone attempt to linkbuild though so I have no idea how we even had 118k links, a lot must have been internal. Organic traffic is down quite a bit though so there is some sort of problem.

A the end of November I am showing that our total links were 118k. Current links are 22k. We changed sites early November so that was about three weeks before. What would cause the drop of about 100k links? Or where should I start investigating?

Our domain name is something like www.I-am-cool.com but most people just type in iamcool.com After doing some research I found that those are 302 redirects and I think they should be 301. If I am correct do I need to redirect www.iamcool.com and iamcool.com or just one or the other?

I can't do the url but I have access to everything. Traffic is up since that happened, it hasn't hurt us at all. No landing pages have lost traffic. We got a completely new site in early November, is this just that site going away and being replaced with the new one?

Here are the numbers-

Pages submitted on sitemap- About 18k

Total Pages indexed on 12/30- About 250k

Total Pages indexed on 1/6- About 81k

We made no site changes in that week, why the sudden drop? Also why is total pages indexed so much higher than sitemap?

I would like a full list of 301 redirects that we have on our site. Is there a way to export it? I tried Bing Webmaster tools and the list was incomplete. We use IIS. Any ideas?

We move to a new site and some of the pages were widgets.com/test.asp, do I need to redirect that to widgets.com/test.htm? It is the same url just the difference between .asp and .htm

Going through our webmaster tools setting I noticed someone had checked Target Users and selected United States. Most of our business is in the US but we still do some internationally. If I uncheck it will I lose rankings in the US?

I know less than 70 is recommended. I am about to run a script to create some title tags and a few will be between 71-74. Is going just the few characters over ok until I can get in there and manually do them?

The blog is not just for linkbuilding, It will have articles for natural links, but will also be used as a way to communicate with current customers.