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As far as I know that iteration would still be considered an 'exact match' domain, however, a lot industry experts have speculated and agree that their effectiveness is diminishing. In other words, ranking for exact match keywords using an exact match domain isn't as effective for getting a ranking boost as it used to be. That's some old school SEO right there. Hope this helps!

That looks to be a good solution. Behind the scenes the plugin will be adding "Options -Indexes" to your .htaccess file, which you could do directly and skip the need for a plugin if you so wish. I am glad I was able to help you.

Hi there, I've never seen this happen to a client so I'm only speaking from a theoretical point of view. My feeling is that it is possible for a penalty to be passed via a 301 redirect. One core reason is that if it didn't, then it would be a very easy way for low quality websites (who don't care about their brand / company name) to just keep switching websites. I don't think it will happen in all cases, but I certainly think it's possible. If this were to happen to you, my feeling is that you should create a disavow file on the new domain which contains the links to the old domain but go through the 301. This feels a bit messy but I don't see an obvious alternative. The absolute best outcome is to get the links totally removed which can be tricky sometimes. I found this blog post by Dave Naylor which talks a bit more about this subject if you'd like to read more: https://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/what-to-do-with-your-disavow-list-when-301ing-an-old-domain.html This Moz Q&A thread also talks about the same situation and has some additional information: http://moz.com/community/q/can-i-dissavow-links-on-a-301-d-website Cheers. Paddy

I'd try to get really specific on two things; "traffic" - are you saying only Google traffic? All traffic? if it IS google traffic, did you notice if Google has actually crawled and re-cached the new version on the website? also, does traffic decrease evenly across all pages on the site? or is it limited to just certain pages or sections? "changing themes" - are these theme changes only design / skin changes - or do they affect URLs, internal links, content (such as page titles/descriptions etc) I think answering these questions really matters in terms of figuring out what happened. I think it's very unlikely for just a surface skin/design change to hurt traffic so much - there must be deeper things going on, and it's just a matter of figuring out what the specifics are.

Just tweeted this out because it should be remembered by everyone. Top notch Tom -Andy

You nailed it sir!

I've read that previously, need something new. Recently I was attending #alex beckers' webinar and came to know some tips like adding a youtube video in the content(But that video must be ranking on top in your targeted keyword in the youtube's search engine). I want on page seo tips like this one. Something advance....

Hi, Social signals does affects rankings in long time period, if real people talks about your brand and your website, shares them it's good for you. But don't waste your time and money with buying social signals.