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Oh yeah, right! That's funny, I wonder how that happened. I had a quick peak in Yoast and the various post types and pages were set to no-index. You're a star, thanks a million. Let's see what happens...

Inline scripts aren't bad per se, search engines just can't always understand them. Worst case scenario: you have extra code that Google has to crawl but doesn't understand, which takes up bandwidth and doesn't add value. But, it won't lower your rankings. So, do whatever you need to do to deliver the best user experience you can on your site with this map and related route, and figure that Google will ignore it (Google is trying to understand it, though, so it may be helpful in the long run). Then, for search engines, include some text content describing the map and the route so that search engines can send the right searchers to your page. Good luck! Kristina

Fortunately, I think this is not cloaking. But you could look at this situation from a different perspective, such as: Usability. "Billions" of tabbed menu can "hurt" usability. So, Oleg was right. You CAN think of rebuilding the menu structure as: - Main Menu - Sub Menu - Sub Menu - Sub Menu - Sub Menu (And to O. ..) From my point of view I would go on this version as: 1 - Can I set different menu anchors 2 - Can choose to link titles (Mouse Over) Will this help a bit internal linking structure. Yours, Mike.

A redirect chain and loop report is now available in Screaming Frog http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/audit-redirects/.

Hey, The obvious points seem to have been covered already: no correlation with traffic drops on known algorithm change dates no manual penalty Can you provide a little more info so we can dig into this? A link to your site An example of a page (or pages) that won't rank for a given term There are a lot of moving parts here and you could be the victim of sites that linked to you being deindexed or penalised, of some kind of phrase specific drop but without more data we are simply guessing here. I would do the following: 1. Dig into your analytics and take a look at the drop date. Compare this to the algorithm dates here on SEOMoz or use the super cool panguintool.com to see all updates and algorithm changes overlaid over your anlaytics. 2. Taking anything gleaned from the above review the traffic drop in your analytics. Look at the period two weeks before and after the drop (you indicated it was sudden?) - look at the landing pages, the keywords, what are the big changes? This again gives you more intel to further your investigation. Is the entire drop tied into a couple of keywords that are now performing more poorly. 3. Audit your site - how is the accessibility? How well is it indexed? Is there duplication? Other technical problems? There is a good self audit post on here that will get you started: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-perform-the-worlds-greatest-seo-audit 4. Audit your back links - where have they come from? What are they like? Editorial? Directories? Are the linking sites indexed or do they appear to have been penalised? Use some of the tools out there like Link Detective and Link Detox from Link Research Tools to give you some more intel. There will a reason for this but without a link it is impossible to give anything other than general advice. If the link is sensitive fire me a PM. I will still feedback here in the public forum for all to benefit but I will maintain your anonymity if that's important. If you can drop a link, you will benefit from several SEO super sleuths taking a look so I would always recommend that. Anyhow, I hope that helps! Marcus

Thanks for all your advice!

Great. Just audit it, fix problems, audit again, write more great content and give it time. Even if you fix the problem (assuming it was an onsite problem) it may take some time for Google to show the love agian.

Hi Will I just want to make sure by "referrals" - do you mean organic search traffic, or do you mean actual referral traffic from other websites? I can give you some suggestions for your site, but I think what you'll really want to do is use segmentation and your data to isolate specifically where the traffic loss is coming from. Start by looking at the "mediums" - does one drop more than the other? Direct traffic ok? Is it just organic search traffic that dropped? Then dig deeper - is it's organic traffic, is it a particular keyword? Is it a particular page? Also, see if you can isolate an exact day - or did traffic drop gradually. Also, look at desktop vs mobile traffic - maybe something happened there. I'd also suggest looking into webmaster tools data. Traffic loss is an effect of many possible causes; lower search volume due to seasonal fluctuation etc a drop in rankings - did any of your main keywords lose ranking? less clicks. you can rank just as well but get less clicks from some reason So - dig into that and try to isolate one particular traffic source/keyword/landing page. - Now, regardless of what you mind, I see some things that you might want to fix. MadeGood.com I see there's a site at .com that relates to the main .org site. Does this receive any traffic? I think you might be best to 301 redirect .com to .org - there could be potential duplicate content or confusion there as it's a similar site. Backlinks I looked through some of your links in OSE and found a few that could be hurting (or at best, no longer helping: ie devalued) viennacyclechic.at/tag/winter/ - are these image links in the sidebar ads? This site needs to nofollow those, as Google requires nofollowing any paid links ("ads"). peak-hives.co.uk/ - the sidebar in "other links". this could be totally natural, but it seems a little misplaced (different topic, kind of random?). hotvsnot.com/Sports/Cycling/ - not terrible, but possibly among a set of links that are not helping anymore. The good news is I don't see anchor text issues, just the placement of some of these links. What I'd recommend here, is; 1. Remove any links that you can that might seem oddly-placed or out of context. Any ad space you're paying for, make sure that site is nofollowing them. 2. Continuing building new links! I think you had a pretty good idea on some of those - using photos to get links, related industry sites etc. Start here. Hope that helps! -Dan

Hey thanks!