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Anything in particular? A quick Google later and you might find this helpful -

When did it drop? Also the last week penguin has been going crazy so it might be due to that once it settles a bit you might find some better results.

sources - http://algoroo.com/

http://searchengineland.com/holidays-google-breaks-updates-rules-gives-fresh-penguin-updates-210367

depends on how quick you want it to be remove, no index is normally the best, you can also ask Google to remove it from their index if its a more more urgent. - https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?rd=1

No more than 15-30 minutes, no extra divs or anything have been added so its just been added to the product description.

Literally a copy and paste, if you are looking for a new developer i'm happy to cost up any past changes you've had for comparison.

I don't recommend directories as you are asking to be hit by a penalty. The way to look at it is as follows : Would you go to the directory to find the business ? If no then don't bother listing, it can be helpful on directories like yell & yahoo etc. but due to the price it may be worth looking else where to make sure you get a good return.

When you add a canonical its pretty much saying this page is a duplicate of the other page, which is fine. This normally means link juice would flow to the page you said was the original. Other options can be just linking to the original content, Matt Cutts has mentioned duplicate content isn't the worse enemy out there and as long as its not spammy it's not solely going to bring you down Take a read - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2319706/Googles-Matt-Cutts-A-Little-Duplicate-Content-Wont-Hurt-Your-Rankings

So if the content is there legitimately and its to help the user of your site just link to the original article, obviously if you're doing this across multiple pages you might want to rethink it a bit but for one or two pages you should be fine.

All though many argue  total white hat not to interlink if you do redirect SITE A to site B you will find a bit of a hit on site B's authority. I've seen it done a few times and work well especially if the content it the same/similar. 301 is telling Google "this is the permanent new home of this page".

If you're planning on shutting down Site A and Site B is similar content I don't see why a 301 wouldn't work.

301 and links technically work about the same on passing link juice its more a case of what work better for the situation.

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As touched on by Gary whilst this is great it can also have longer term problems though that's not a guarantee that your page will rank. It depends if you want to stay completely white hat or more a bit more grey though if you ask me there is no white hat only shades of grey..

As I always recommend lots of research and advice never hurt and once you've got it all you can then work on an informed choice.

Good luck.

No luck on the UK any time soon. it's not on their near road map as they have mentioned.

Google has mentioned boiler plate duplicate content isn't the worse and is generally just ignored by Google but if you did want to be safe you can do as you suggested

Blocking robots / no index (same result)

rel=canonical tag to one main site with your policy this way you still get some form of link juice.

Do nothing- It's very rare if Google would give you a penalty for just having duplicated privacy policy not to mention I assume you would be tweaking it with the name of the site etc. any way.

Looks good to me, you used rel=canonical for the right purpose. Good job.

MiriamEllis is a bit of a local search wizard Id recommend popping her a PM.

First off ignore PR

Page rank is updates once maybe twice a year, Google has said they don't really use it as much and if you base your metrics on it you're going to have a bad time.

FEAR NOT! Moz's domain authority or Majestic SEO's Trust flow or ahref's domain rank (or if you combine them all) are all good metrics to look at.

Hopefully that helps you base how well your doing better than pr. (pr can be an used on a longer term plan but i don't put much weight on it any more.)

Good luck!

Hi,

A hit as in raise the authority. It's recommended that you 301 over time anyway so it sounds like you've got a plan that's going to work well. Hummingbird unfortunately isn't going to remove top spots as its not what its aim is. Penguin 2.1 may as its a bit more focused on spam removal.

Good luck.

Very Strange indeed META NOODP tag? It can help if Google decided it likes DMOZ more though you don't seem to have a link but its handy. You can also implement some Rich snippets  - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en to help Google know e.g the name of your site etc.

Hope that helps sorry i couldn't get to the bottom though another clever person here might be able to.

Good luck

Hi Kate,

Unfortunately it's always a guessing game but couple of things i did notice - you've got a Google plus page set up but you seem to have forgotten about Google local (because it's always fun to confuse people by naming all your products Google "something") - https://plus.google.com/113270767742987744992/about  it can be helpful to make sure that it is up to date as it can assist any local searches.

You've got a rather large site which is fine just make sure its all optimized so every page is helpful, authoritative etc.

Another oddity is on my quick look you've got a very large volume of images (nearly 90% of your links) which is fine but they all have very similar names (and a lack of lat tags).

Although somewhat controversial don't forget to get people to review you! e.g your Google local is without reviews which can help identify your site as a great place people are using and a reason why you should move up in the SERP.

Hopefully there is some 'Leads' for you to look into from my very brief look (I also noticed you're in Brighton High five)

Just a quick disclaimer all the above is not a garuntee and it's only observations i made I'm sure some of the Moz "recommended" list can come with a very good action place to help your site if you wanted a bit better advice etc.

The last bit of advise is remember Google wants to give the best answer to a search so make your site that, with information that's going to help and then back that up with e.g shares/ reviews etc. show people found it helpful if possible.

Best of luck!

Don't forget you can have a "sign up for news letter option" and then you can even start to build up some email lists of people who are engaged in your brand. you can use the likes of mail chimps to send for nearly no cost.

It can be a great way to announce new articles or new items on sale or for sale etc. There are some really great tips above though so this is just another helpful bit of advice.

What you are referring to is deep linking its normal as it helps build authority over a whole domain rather than just the homepage however its a tricky line to walk.,  Same for directories it can be a fine line, its not Whether you think they are spam directories its Whether Google thinks that and Whether you are willing to bet a penalty on it (or a competitors reporting you for having directories and again getting a penalty)

Hello,

if you search the page URL (exact) in Google at the end of the Google search URL type "&as_qdr=y15"

This can also be used with the inurl command on searches for a whole domain,  whilst not 100% its a start it also sometimes shows last cached version (don't forget there is a date filter on searches!)

I also wanted to give a shout out to the wayback machine http://archive.org/web/web.php

hope ti helps & good luck!

Glad it helped, if you're finding openers are not working out you could look into your subject lines or the content or the emails, unfortunately it can happen. It's like SEO just keep playing with it until you find that sweet spot.

May find this thread a good place to find some tools - http://moz.com/community/q/local-seo-tools-for-uk

A bit more on your question you're looking at it the wrong way kind of, think of it like this:

Where would you find a photographer in Liverpool? A bit more outside of Google and that can be a great point to find local places e.g. Google places or Yelp etc. You can also look at competitors see where they may be listing, is there a listing of local wedding photographers in the local chapels etc. etc.

So try to look at it how the customer finds you rather than how you can rank for that term you will find it can work a bit better to look at it in a different light. As for the How if you have info on your site about both it can be a help (e.g. a page on your wedding photography in Liverpool and a page on your say commercial photography etc.)

Hope that's enough to get you started

Best of luck!

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Hi also wanted to share you are sort of on page 1 with a local result with http://imgur.com/Qx8St2w and if I were you I'd investigate your meta description tag make sure it's working its hardest for you (especially if you compare)