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ahh...thank you for your time I track the website in MOZ tools - that is where the list came from - it is a screen shot. Perhaps a MOZ staff member can shed some light on the issue? I could not replicate it either. Confused ?!?

Never shift a website from one country to another country by myself but let me tell you what theory tells us. -          Map Changing If you website was associated to any business registered in Google Maps and other yellow pages than you carefully need to remove all listings and re-register it on another country. These will defiantly going to hurt your rankings on specific country where you were ranking before. The problem is results for every country are different from others so if the rankings didn’t really changed (most probably it will fluctuate for local keywords) the rankings that you had in US will not be the same in AU. What you should be doing. Change your NAP and Re-register your maps in Google and other Yellow pages. Update content accordingly Get new links from .AU domains Change your targeted country in Google Webmaster Tool Get links from local keywords And you will see your rankings will start appearing in google.com.au Hope this helps!

Oh that certainly is tedious It took us months, one of them took over a year, just to remove panda. All I can say is that you need to be patient and keep up the improvements. There's also a new update so keep an eye on that. You can also setup a separate site or focus on paid/content marketing while you wait for the recovery for the mean time.

Hi Felicity, Unfortunately this won't be something Google would consider grounds for reducing Ebay's ranking for this keyword / these items (duplication of images, including both theft and legitimate re-purposing) is absolutely rampant online so duplicate images aren't easy to police and in most cases, it doesn't make sense to do so. Have you tried reporting the listings to Ebay Australia? Have a look here - http://ocsnext.ebay.com.au/ocs/sr?search=1&query=1732&popularTool=true&st=0&popularToolName=Report%20an%20item Especially if the items are knock-offs or not really what they purport to be, Ebay might take some action on the listings or sellers. I would think that is your best bet. Cheers, Jane

Sorry for the late reply! Short answer: yes. That looks like a gradual drop that could be caused by lack of new activity and/or engagement with your site. I'd be surprised if it was link-based.

Hi Felicity, Both can have an impact. What matters is how well you can achieve goals. I could probably get better results from SEO than Social Media, but only because I don't specialise in SM. Get someone who does, and the outcome could be totally different. I guess the answer to this is where you feel you can have the most impact as both areas have the ability to achieve the desired results for you. -Andy

At some point, someone has hired one of these worthless 'link building' packages online that pays for however many forum profile backlinks. Whilst many of them have been deployed incorrectly (thankfully for you) - You can tell this by the fact BBCode was used on the forums when some of the forums in questions don't accept this and use an HTML editor instead. This kind of artificially generated link profiling was targeted in the Google Penguin algorithm updates, this could largely prove the outcome of any recent deterioration in your domain's performance as it is blindingly obvious most of the backlinks are from link spam. Perhaps the company you wrote the article for, once published, then buy useless packages online to build lots of links to their content which then links to their own website...? If it were me, I would take down the article and request a URL removal from the index in Google Webmaster Tools. It may even be worthwhile creating a 301 redirect to point to somewhere else so that lots of 404 errors aren't triggered on your site (if there is any worthwhile traffic coming via any of the links pointing to the article). You can view the link profile for this URL here.

ah thanks 77% similar !!

mmmm - maybe but I suspect there is paid linking and deliberate sculpting going on - Garden Beet is more active on social forums relating to gardens than one of its main competitiors however in support of your argument  I recently witnessed Garden Beet shoot from the dark unseen ranks of 54 to number 8/9 following a tv campagin on a related term - but yawn yawn - the page is now hovering around 20  -

Ill put the widget on my site

Felicia, tell them to get fu#*$@ if they don't want to write content. Charging is a great idea too.

OK thanks

Let's see.  It's a link selling network.  Google can follow networks.  Patterns.  IPs.  Names. Sites.

lets say I have 2 sites (two companies I am doing SEO for) one is for a Taxi service and one is for a limo service. Would me offering my taxi traffic a link to a limo service be black hat? **no way!  ** Would google look at that link as a bad link? I highly doubt it! Kink building is great and works as long as the sources are relevant. Googles goals are to make money. in order to make money they need the best search engine. In order to have the best search engine they need the best SERP's. The only way have the best SERP's is via user interaction. If the user likes the link so will Google.

Thanks, dignan99. I'm currently hosting with Bluehost and their customer service is AMAZING. However, they haven't been able to help me with this issue since, as they say, wordpress is unique. That said, I didn't have all of this great information back then so I'll revisit it with them at your suggestion and see if they can help. Thanks again for the suggestion.

Just remember that the H1(and other header tags) should be descriptive for/of the content that follows them too Edit : typo

I fyou have 301 redirected, then you dontneed to use canonical

I would definitely create a new blog at gardenbeet.com/blog. This will drive traffic and links to your main site, which appears to be your ultimate goal. Do not worry about linking out. If the link goes to a relevant site, linking out can actually be a good sign of credibility for you. Not to mention link karma. What you do with the old blog is up to you. I would recommend moving the content and 301ing the URLs to the new domain. Here is a link to help you out. http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ This would result in the current links pointing at the blog to pass juice to your main site. Simply put, optimizing one site (gardenbeet.com) is easier than optimizing two (gardenbeet.com and your wordpress blog).

If I transfer my blog to my website will that mean all my link juice for my main website will be given to all the links i have on my blog.I link to heaps of people from my blog Also many of my links from my blog point to domains that point to my main website - given this info would you still advise to move my blog from wordpress to my own domain?

thanks - i dont know why it was disabled - it probably caused another problem - we have had many!! will give reply to developer and see what he says appreciate your time