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Hi Ryan Thanks for your response. I can assure you that pursuing black hat methods was never the intention. I don't think anyone on SEOmoz would want that label. But I can see why you'd see it that why. It was decided that both websites should offer the same products, focussing on their 2 key products but then saying "we also provide such and such through our sister brand". We are happy to have the association and for Google to know the 2 sites are related. The reason I asked the original question was due to the advice of an SEO company we used to use who said that we needed to move one of the sites to a different server if we wanted them to rank for their own keywords. I guess they weren't telling us the whole story? From what you say, a new content strategy is probably the answer.

Thanks for the quick response Ryan! We don't use SSL on these sites, and our emails go via an external software provider, so looks like we can do without a static IP to begin with.

Thanks so much for the update!  I'm glad to hear that your rankings are now accurate.  We really appreciate all of your patience during the downtime! Cheers, Megan

Thanks Yumi, I'll take a look at the CSV files so see if I notice any patterns.

By using the open graph protocol you can control how the like/share/recommend appears on a Facebook Wall. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

Just an update on this, The experiement has run its course and the meta refresh didn't seem to give Google any issues with tracking conversions on either version of our land page, so I would say it has been a success.