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there have been several threads about this - all our data is also stuck on 15th July, come on Moz, sort it out!

and ours please!

ours are also stuck on the 15th July.

Magento takes care of all url rewrites and friendly urls out of the box - go to system > configuration > web > use url rewrite | YES

thanks for the comments chaps.  Im still in 2 minds about the best thing to do...

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I saw a small increase on the 14th and 15th - but no more than I would normally expect over a weekend (retail ecommerce websites).

I have a question!
We have 2 domains operating within the same retail sector.  One of them is for our bricks and mortar business and the other is a new brand we launched as a nationwide e-retailer.   We aggressively built links for the new one and achieved some very good search positioning, where we remained for about 4 months until the google updates of the first half of this year started biting.  The domain never received a warning from google or anything, but the links have clearly been devalued to a point where the domain is now virtually buried for the most competitive terms.

However, the domain does still get around 100-200 visitors per day, and has a DA of 38.

We're thinking about a reshuffle that would involve putting the products in to our brick and mortar business website, and redirecting the brand domain to the bricks and mortar domain.

Thank you for reading this far!  the question is then, is there a danger of the bricks and mortar domain being tarnished by this?  as i said the brand domain hasn't had any notices of penalty from google but it has definitely been hit by updates.

How many links does it have?  anything sub 300 is nothing to be concerned about in my experience.  Google does recognise the need for some sites - particularly large ecommerce sites to have lots of links for navigation.  As a rule of thumb (imo) if it aids natural customer navigation, it's fine.  If its overtly spammy and a deliberate attempt to cury favour in SERPS, its not fine - and apart from anything will ultimately dilute what you're doing by appearing on every page.

Hi,

How long ago did you do this work?  It can take a little while for google to catch up, but also a word of caution; if you have blocked the pages they may not de-index, you could be better off allowing access to them but set them to no index.

How many links does it have?  anything sub 300 is nothing to be concerned about in my experience.  Google does recognise the need for some sites - particularly large ecommerce sites to have lots of links for navigation.  As a rule of thumb (imo) if it aids natural customer navigation, it's fine.  If its overtly spammy and a deliberate attempt to cury favour in SERPS, its not fine - and apart from anything will ultimately dilute what you're doing by appearing on every page.

i take it ecwid doesnt support the native joomla friendly urls?  are friendly urls and rewrite even switched on in the joomla core config page?

I checked a few and the link profiles were ok but not great. I cant help but notice that clicksubmit's own DA is a measly 27 which is odd.

Over all though I cant see anything alarming, so I might give them a go, it's fairly cost effective, and I am tiring of using off shore agencies who promise the earth and deliver either nothing or very dangerous work.
In an ideal world I could add 10 hours to the day so I could build links myself!

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