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Well,

If you say a lot of the links have a Majestic SEO citation flow of zero and a Majestic SEO trust flow of zero. Then I would not be worried about removing these links affecting your Da or Pa. They have zero trust flow.

I would def. get rid of sites you think are giving you a penalty. If you need a site review to remove a manual penalty, They will be wanting to see that you made an effort to clean up the bad link profile, not just added some new links.

As well if your site is under a manual penalty, then the new links you build may not be allowed to flow trust fully to your credit.

I would spend a few weeks cleaning up bad links than after that split the time half and half building new high quality links and removing the bad ones.

Hope that helps.

Hello Carl, can you provide a little more information or give the store url ?

How many products are there in total ?   Are all of the products in all 4 collections ? Or only some overlapping ?

How many duplicate content errors are you getting ?  I'll have a look for you if you provide the url address.

Thank you,

Joe

Good advice Matt,

Mark, look at your traffic over the time period i question. Then pull up Moz's list of algorithm updates ( http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change ) See if your substantial drop in traffic correlates to any of the updates to help determine if you got a specific penalty problem. This could be an eye opener to discover what could be a bigger potential problem than you initially thought or never knew about at all.

If the traffic drop was slowly over time, I would also check your keyword rankings over time. It may be as simple as more and more of your competitors are catching up on the seo work . Slowly out ranking you and getting a big share of your previous traffic.

I would definitely check the algorithms in relation to the traffic drops.

Hope that helps,

Joe

Thank you Donna,

That's pretty much what I had found, but did not think that would cause the home page error I am seeing. I know that events calendar is a problem for speed. Maybe I will move the calendar off the domain and re scan. If the crawl is fine maybe I will move the calendar to a separate domain permanently.

Hello Tamir,

Realistically to write great content you want to use them all in different variations, singular. plural ect. I would pick the highest volume order of the keywords, in your case: 260 monthly searches for house for rent Hua Hin.

I would use this combination as the url, Begining of description as well as the H1 tag. I would then write some very thoughtful and informative content and add those other variations on the page in a natural flowing conversational way that sounds like natural talk when you read it out loud to yourself. You want to focus on the highest volume words and also build the others in as well so you may rank well for more than 1 combination of those keywords.

Here is the link to rands very informative article about keyword targeting: A Visual Guide to Keyword Targeting and On-Page SEO. Its a must read for sure !

http://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization

Hope that helps,

Joe

Ok,

I would not use the same thing that just got you in trouble. That makes no sense. I would re-work all the content and clean it up as much as possible. Google must have given you some idea of what they did not like about your website in your Webmaster tools account. I would re-do all the content, images, image tags, file names. Make everything new.

Most importantly clean up any of the problem areas you know about. I would not just make the same content 80% new, I would also add much more content as well.

Hope that helps,

Joe

I agree with Ryan. That's great advice.

One more thing I would add is to go ahead and pro-actively add some extra high authority page backlinks to the "about me" page. You want to ensure the Page Authority is higher than any other pages on the site that may out rank your author archive page. Just to make sure the pages you want ranking first are where they should be in terms of your websites pages authority.

Hope that helps a little further,

Joe

All great answers for sure ...

Don't forget this resource right here on Seomoz itself,

Have a look through to see which ones may relate to and be beneficial to your company.

http://www.seomoz.org/directories

I agree with you Massimiliano,

Overall that is a great strategy and yes, just because they get more volume does not mean they are the best keywords. Different keywords are used at different stages of the buying cycles. In this case I was just telling Tamir how I would choose the order from those specific combinations of the same 5 words. Assuming he has done his research and those are the keywords he is going to target.

Getting traffic is one step in the game, converting the traffic is another important step as well.

Best Regards,

Joe

Would you mind providing the url of your website so I can have a deeper look for you ?

Have you checked all your backlinks for quality and scores ? You may want to disavow any really bad links you find. Have you checked your anchor text variations ? Also have you compared your website, DA and PA scores against some of your competitors ? With some research you should be able to pinpoint the issues so you can make a game plan to improve your ranking results.

Thank you,

Joe