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Hey Tony, Thanks for following up like this. I think Asian Travel Tips is a much better, more brandable, domain than the other ones you have listed. Google may tell you that you don't have a "manual action" while you may have an algorithmic one. The people on the team you contacted (at the time it was called Google Webmaster Tools, but whatever they're calling it this week) probably have no way of knowing whether your site has an algorithmic penalty, or is being given lower rankings algorithmically. Generally speaking, fewer domains is better than lots of more niche microsites if they're all part of the same theme - in this case travel to Asia. Here is a post about this concept: https://moz.com/blog/2-become-1-merging-two-domains-made-us-an-seo-killing Here's what Rand has to say about it: https://moz.com/blog/rebrand-or-redirect-my-site-consolidate-multiple-sites-whiteboard-friday I had a look at the screenshot you sent and the site looks good. Keep posting unique, useful content about traveling throughout Asia and you should be fine. I like that you're leveraging the Trip Adviser connection, as it adds trust for the user. Good luck!

Sawais dee kap I'm a big fan of Thailand too....great scuba diving, great people, awesome food. Honestly I wouldn't sweat your domain name.  In fact, despite all the talk about lessening the importance of EMD in ranking, I'm still seeing TONS of sites get massive boosts in ranking purely because of exact and partial match domains. I would not expect to see a domain name like yours draw any sort of ranking penalty. By the way...nice site, lots of great, useful content (I presume it's original?).  Email me privately at michael@visualitineraries.com if you're interested in doing a guest post on my site about Thailand.

Hello there! I am sorry to hear our crawl was not able to pick up your changes. Would you be able to send us an email at help@moz.com with the campaign name and example URLs of pages that were changed? Talk to you soon!

For anyone who's still interested, my SEO ranking for "bachelor hotels phuket" and "bachelor hotels IN phuket" has now equalised. Both now rank #1 on Google, but neither send very much traffic my way. Still, an interesting exercise.