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I would use data to back up any changes you would want to make. If you know organic traffic is starting to take a nose dive due to changes the team is currently making then pull some year-over-year before and after snapshots and show them the areas that are declining.

Explain the importance of properly optimizing the pages you are working on and try to find some sort of middle ground.

I think one issue you are having is targeting the same keywords on multiple pages. I would recommend doing some extensive keyword research with Moz and mapping all your keywords to their appropriate urls or landing pages. Build out a keyword map and write content accordingly.

One quick solution for your "just-listed" pages you could canonicalize them to the neighborhood page or target different keywords on that page.

Hope that helps some.

I think quality links should be taken into consideration more heavily over quantity. A few quality backlinks would be a lot more beneficial than a vast amount of poor backlinks.

Don't try to quantify how much focus on the quality while building strategic marketing relationships and you will be fine.

Are you creating informational type posts like blog content? I would advise against creating pages around singular keywords.

According to a post from seo round table a Google rep said this is almost irrelevant. However, there are a host of other ranking factors that come into play for international SEO. Keep hreflang tags, ccTLDs, and content in mind when developing your international strategy and you should be fine.

Your welcome its all good no worries. I hope it works out let me know how it goes.

Have you done anything funny that would warrant your site being removed? Google only notifies webmasters of manual penalties if I am not mistaken.

I would say make sure to include a 'meta no index' tag and block search engines from crawling it with a robots.txt. Then you can think about creating a placeholder with information about the rebrand. No sense in having it indexed just yet.

Hope that helps some.

Is there anyway you could try to do both and see which one yields greater results? That might be a better approach instead of limiting yourself.

Also what steps did you take during your site migration?

That is to be expected when you move a website to a new domain. What you can do is blog, link build and claim your local citations if you haven't already.

It will take time to build up your new domain just be patient.

I say go for it and test it to see what sort of traction you can gain with it. Personally I wouldn't do it for a client website or anything but it would make a neat project to test out.

Not necessarily, it depends on how you look at it. His specific site brings value to others looking to optimize and learn SEO. You can apply those same techniques to a blog on a subject you feel passionate about to test out some of his techniques.

At first glance, he seems like a sketchy affiliate marketer. However, I could be wrong. If you want to find out if he is legit you could always purchase a domain and try out some of his techniques and see how they work and if Google destroy's your new site.

Could be a fun experiment.

I would say 'divide and conqueror' in my opinion. Start with the responsive redesign then tackle the rebranding. I have seen a client try to do both in the past and it was a messy situation.

Hope that helps some.

I would be inclined to copy and paste the full article with a rel canonical pointing to the original source. That should handle any duplicate content issues that may arise.

It would be highly unlikely you would be penalized for updating the anchor text in one blog. I would be more concerned if you had an alarmingly high number of exact match anchor text links pointing to your client's site.

That's interesting there are only two Google partners in Charlotte, NC. I would imagine there would be more in a larger city.

According to search engine land, the side and bottom ads account for roughly 14.6% of total clicks. Ads on the top position targeting the same keyword etc gets on average 14x higher click-through rates than the same ad on the right side. Since ads appear at the bottom of the page only less than 7.3% of clicks are being impacted by the change. Searchengine land also states that as a result of these changes position 3 got the biggest boost in click through rates.

I think the percentage of traffic coming from Google would vary widely depending on strategies used to acquire traffic for any specific website. Bruce Clay talks about some of the effects on organic traffic the removal of the right-side ads had on search traffic.

Personally at my agency we have seen similar results in some of the PPC campaigns we run for our clients. We haven't noticed any negative impacts and in some instances have seen an increase in performance.

The pages are loading now not sure what was causing that but Id keep an eye on it.

Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any other questions. I don't mind helping out if I can.

Thats a pretty neat extension. I would not remove the redirects in that case. I would identify all areas where you have duplicate content and implement canonicals as appropriate. Set up a Moz campaign with the site and Moz will crawl your site and give you a list of duplicated pages and you can begin to work through the duplicated pages.

I ran a quick crawl with Screaming Frog - if you dont use this tool I would highly recommend it. I noticed the depth of your site is fairly deep up to 8 pages or so I would make sure I had a strong internal linking procedure in place. Another issue to look into when I was crawling the site I noticed several pages where the connection timed out.

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