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I very much doubt Google will have updated your rankings that fast...

Do you have a date you made the change?  It doesn't sound like the drop was because of your site move, if it dropped the very next day.  Even if you had lots of 404's those listings would still have retained their place in google for a short while.

Yeh, I agree with EGOL.

Another thing to consider is checking out your competitors profile.  Say they have 100 links, and 10 are noticeable better (higher DA, PA, relevancy etc) it would obviously make more sense to spend more time on those 10, and in fact you may not want to spend any time on the lower quality links (i.e. you don't want them).

But yes, for the points EGOL mentioned its not a simple question to answer.

Yeh, there are lots of things really that can cause this.  WordPress sites are slower but you can mitigate this by installing caching.  Check all your redirects are working fine. WordPress will have a slightly different site structure with all the categories \ tags etc, so that may affect is slightly.

But, before you worry too much about that, it might be that you have been caught by one of the recent Google Updates. Was there a date when you particularly noticed the change?  It could be that other sites benefited from the Google Update rather than you being penalised.  Even a few serp places drop can affect traffic quite a bit.

Unfortunately, without seeing all the analytics data  \ site data it is hard to pin it down to anything.

I've never known search engine bots to be particularly troublesome and overload servers. However, there are a few things you could do:

1.  Setup Caching

2.  Setup something like Cloudflare which would be able to block other threats.

I cannot imagine you are intending to block google, bing etc as I would definitely advise against cloaking the site like that from Google.

Of course it is difficult to make any specific comment as I have no idea to the extent of the problem you are suffering from.  But something like caching \ cloudflare security features will help alot.

I like your idea for comparison, however, be warned that once you open the box be prepared for counter campaigns by your competitor.

But I think a blog post like that sounds a natural and potentially a good source of conversions.  Just be sure to be ready to back up any claims you make.

But yes, I like your idea, and thanks for the idea of using adwords advertising to do this.  I like that too.

Whilst I have never used them, it looks like they are selling a service, not hosting.  It therefore stands to reason that if you cancel their service you lose your mobile site.

Had a look for their terms and conditions and they do not mention anything about hosting, but  refer to services:

"We provide various mobile website solutions for our customers, including but not limited to: our Site, mobile website conversion, mobile website creation, and mobile advertising solutions (collectively, the “Services”).. You may use the Services for your personal and business use or for internal business purpose in the organization that you represent, as long as you are in compliance with all provisions of this Agreement."

It is a little unclear, but it is easy to argue it in their favor based on that wording.  Sucks for you though.  But hey, you own the domain, so speak to a web developer before you cancel so they can see what you have and get you a new mobile site up an running.  Or, get them to make you a responsive web design which I personally think are better anyway.

So what I get from that is that tools using adwords data are fine for keyword research, but that actual visitor analytics is not going to reveal much anymore.

Sorry, I only gave a brief look at your site, but my first impressions was that there was very little content, and many outgoing links.

When I try to rank keyword pages I have a minimum of 500 words within the content area, but mostly try to aim for 700 - 1000.  Of course this is not always possible, but you have alot of duplicate pages, plus very little text on each of those pages.  I have tried to rank local seo keywords with very similar content like that, and I find it takes alot longer to get indexed and might even bounce in and out of the serps for a while.

Gaining more authority will help, as will inserting more text as you can insert more keyword \ keywords variations without appearing spammy with the keyword density.  I think ultimately without unique content you have to be prepared to wait a while for them to be all indexed, and even then there is no guarantee (although better site authority should help).

Also might be worth checking your sitemap structure.  I believe there is a limit on what each sitemap can have, so you may need to split it up over several although I believe some plugins do this automatically.

If they are linking back to you I wouldn't worry.  This will give a signal to Google that yours is the original.

Interesting link.  Thanks

Many of your pages are very similar with just changes in keywords \ headings.  I appreciate with that many pages it will be hard to make them more unique but as a result it may take longer for them to index, if at all.

There is also not much text on each of the pages, so I wouldn't class the content as particularly good quality either (in terms of what google sees), which also may hinder the chances of getting indexed.  Plus 2 weeks for a site like that is too soon to tell whether Google will index them.  The initial indexing of alot of pages is quite usual.

Short of changing the pages, all I can suggest is build up your site's authority.

I too am not sure if it completely fits, but I use tweetadder.com

I am assuming you want to put in the "@name" at the beginning of each tweet.  Tweetadder will let you import a list of tweets, and then it will tweet this out at a schedule (times \ intervals etc).  Its also a one off fee.

I use Tweetadder to auto retweet, find followers (relevant), set scheduled tweets, manage followers etc.  It is very good.

I am not sure your client fully understands what is meant by this, and indeed I am not sure I fully understand.  However, as I see it, there is an increasing trend for your Google Analytics to report no information when it reports to you, making it harder to get decent view of where your traffic is coming from.

To quote an article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2290098/3-Ways-Ecommerce-Websites-Can-Grow-or-Maintain-Organic-Search-Traffic

"Those with their sleeves pushed up working day-to-day on SEO know the reasons why this is happening – searchers who are logged into Google accounts, Firefox users, and most mobile searchers pass "no query" when they click on organic-search links – causing analytics systems to report it without a query."

I agree with Mark.  Sitewide links are an extremely quick way to get a penalty these days.

Another option is to ask those links to be no-followed if they do give traffic (and try to get an editorial link on the front page, or some other page), but at the end of the day if they refuse, your only option will be to dissavow.

I always do blogs on the same site.  The reason is that good content will give the site a freshness boost, plus if you really focus on content you will also get natural backlinks, and social media signals coming back to your site.

The reason why someone might suggest doing it the other way is to get free backlinks to your site, but I don't think this will be any where near as affective as producing the top quality content for your site, and getting a buzz on social media, and backlinks from third party sites.

Whenever I do optmisation for clients, I "brand out" the homepage and design it for maximum conversion.  I then use individual pages for keyword optimisation.  If you overly optimize the homepage for keywords it can look spammy.

Whilst this should be taken as a general comment, I have seen good rankings for keyword pages, even when the majority of backlinks are targeting the homepage with the branded anchor text.

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New sites can rank very highly for a month or two due to the freshness factor.  Once this wears off, refreshing content can help a little, but ultimately you will need to get backlinks \ social engagement.

If you haven't done any black hat \ paid backlinking, then your best bet is to keep at it, and work on your content, do some guest posts, circulate some content in the social media channels to get social engagement.

If you want more specific advice you will need to post your url, so we can check out what is going on.

Be careful with partial moves.  I have got stung before by doing it incorrectly.

Essentially what happens is that all the internal links that link to the select pages you move will count as external links for the brand new pages.  This could create a large number of backlinks from menu's footer, sidebar, menu links or any other links and give you a penalty on the new site on the next penguin refresh.