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It could well be that one of the pages on which the duplicate content exists has a NoIndex tag - have you checked that? That way it wouldn't be picked up by search engines.

Or, is one of the pages simply low down the webpage food chain and not being picked up at all?

Go into your Google Webmaster Tools account to see what Google says.

In the last week, my website's rankings dropped for a number of keywords. This is the first time I have seen a net drop (and it's significant) in my SEOMoz rankings report (been climbing consistently since January), and I haven't changed my strategy at all.

Can anyone shed some light on this? I noticed that my two major competitors have both lost domain rank as well.

Wow, a really tough problem.

I would definitely go for the image, and then customise the copy around the image so you can still rank for those pages. If you go for noindex tags, you lose all optimisation opportunites.

Or, could you host the product description on a single domain and then link to that from all your relevant pages?

Sorry Chandubaba, I have to agree with Adam here.

1. What about adding content to your own website?

2. You haven't mentioned anything here about the value of your articles and links. I can submit 30 articles to low quality article submission sites and get nothing. But then I can spend a few hours developing a really valuable piece of content and pitching it to a quality blog and get an excellent, sustainable link.

Your strategy is too simplistic. I use this rule of thumb: the easier the strategy, the less SEO value it will deliver.

Hi LoudNoise.

1. was there any site downtime during the migration?

2. Have you compared traffic sources before and after the migration to isolate the source of the problem?

H

If you analyse all the blogs on competitor websites, establish their strong points and their weak points and then develop your own blog that provides the best content in the industry, you will gain natural links and you will have a chance of competing. Obviously this would only work if your onsite optimisation had been completed.

Hi Christopher. Public relations works really well for quality link building:

I recently wrote a blog post on how to use PR to build elite links here: http://toplinecomms.com/blog/2013/02/pr-agency-trade-secrets-to-help-seos-build-elite-links

I hope this helps

Heather

Melanie, yesterday I watched a video by Matt Cutts explaining that the disavow tool is your best bet when it comes to combating negative SEO. It's frustrating though because it takes a bit of time to come into effect.

Good luck.

Heather

Hi Webdeal. http://addurl.nu/ has an up to date list of quality website directories. I hope this helps!

Hi Robert. Welcome to the wonderful world of SEO!

You should use the location based keywords that mention your town, because these include the general keywords anyway. So "neck pain Bloomington" covers both scenarios.

Hi, might seem like a silly question, but have you manually updated your page titles? I had this issue, for a section on my website - case studies. The designer had set the site so that case studies all had the same page title - automatically generated as 'case study'. Got him to update the HTML code and then added each case study title automatically. It worked.

Has anyone had this problem - no data in the links section of GWT? I haven't set a preferred domain, so I don't understand what's up.

Beytznet - I've had exactly the same problem, except ALL my links are gone - It's so frustrating!

Hi there. My understanding has always been that page authority and domain authority are indicators of how well optimised your site is. They are metrics rather than targets and will increase naturally as you continue to build links and create engaging content.

Hi there. Good for you for getting your SEO campaign off the ground!

You need to be careful when choosing an SEO consultant. There are so many out there claiming to be specialists in this area, who simply don't know what they're doing, and I have fallen victim to this myself in the past!

For me, the best metric is to ask them to show you the analytics for a site they have worked on (ideally one similar to yours). If the key metrics have increased, then you're probably on to something. Then ask them how much time they spent on optimising the site (if it took them 100 hours a month, they are probably going to be too expensive). You'll then be able to make an informed choice.