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In dealing with Panda do you think it is a good idea to put all refinements for category pages in the robots.txt file? We already have a lot as noindex, follow but I am wondering if it would be better to address from a crawl perspective as the pages are probably thin duplicate content to Google.

THanks for all of the answers, does anyone have recommendations for good companies that do consulting for Panda related issues?

Thanks for the answer, that is kinda what I figured too. I know I have to re write the content in order to be more competitive but I assumed there has to be something else that is effecting me as well.

My site was hit pretty negatively by Panda 4.0 and I am at a loss for the best way to address it. I have read like every article that I can and I know there is some duplicate manufacturer product descriptions but I don't hear many other ecoms complaining about Panda so I figure it must be something else. Also, the pages that seem most negatively affected are category and product list pages. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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THanks! Any idea of smaller companies that can just preform the initial review? Or is everything like taking on new clients as I am not as interested in that.

I am looking for a company or person that can do an look over of the site and then give me the ideas they think are most impacting SEO.

Does anyone have suggestions on places that provide in depth site / analytics reviews for SEO?

Over the past week or so, my eCommerce site has experienced a large drop in organic traffic from Google.I have used analytics to determine that the pages that have seen the biggest losses in traffic are product pages.

I know there are so many seo checklists/site audit checklists out there recommending different things, but does anyone have a good checklist (or link to a good checklist) that would fit our situation best?

Thank you!

After watching Rand's video I am trying to think of the best way to make my large site more crawl friendly.

Background

I have a large site with over 100k product skus and so when you get to a particular page of products there are tons of different refinements and options that help you sort the products. Most of these are noindex followed, but I was wondering if I should be nofollowing the internal links as well in order to keep bots out of those pages and going to the pages that I want them to go too. Is this a good way to handle it?

Also, does anyone have good recommendations of links to posts that deal with helping the crawl friendliness of a large site?

Thanks!

Hello!  I am wondering if anyone out there has had a good experience with Adroll.  I set up a campaign a couple months ago, but have yet to see any return on my investment.  I'm now considering stopping this service because it seems to not be living up to its hype.

What has your experience in using this service?

Yes, the drops were in organic search.

We kept the URLs the same as the previous version of the site to avoid any problems, and no existing content was removed.

Is it common for a site to see slight traffic drops after a site redesign (containing cleaner code, more usability and basically just being more helpful for the end user)?  A new site of ours went live last Wednesday and has experienced a drop in traffic.

If you have seen this in your own site, how did you recover? And how long did the recovery take?

Thanks for the helpful advice!

I have read that loading images from a subdomain of your site instead of the main domain will give you speed benefits on load time. Has anyone actually seen that to be the case? Thanks!

I started diving into the over lap between Organic and affiliate orders and can see that on average about 10% of my organic orders get tracked as both affiliate and organic (meaning i am paying affiliate commissions on them). I want to be able to better account for the different types of order and where they are coming from.

My question is simply if anyone has any ideas as to how better to figure out if those orders should be canceled on the affiliate end or if there is a better way in analytics to see where the order is actually getting attributed to through some type of goal or advanced set up or something (the download of orders from organic that I compared to the affiliate ones was taken from Ecommerce > Transactions > Medium (Organic) then I compared that to the order numbers from the affiliate company I am using).

Hope this makes sense and thanks for any information that can help with this!