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Goolge won't have anything against Magneto as it is a very widely used platform and there would have been a lot more people asking this sort of question if Google suddenly decided it didn't like it. I would have a look at all your sites link profiles and see if there are any clues there? I would also look at your sites architecture/structure and see if you have a duplicate content issue which can be common on e-commerce sites. For a more in depth insight you will need to share your sites with the community.

If you haven't already I would run your sites through http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ for clues

Yes it could affect your current rankings if you don't make sure that you have redirected your http:// versions to your new https:// versions of the page using a 301 redirect as it can create a duplicate content issue. Here is a more in depth look at this in a recent and very well answered Q&A - http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-content-and-http-and-https

Hope this helps!

Hi Graeme,

I have had an issue in the last couple of weeks where a campaign that was tagged to display in Google Analytics wasn't showing anywhere near the amount of traffic I was recording at the other end. My problem was fixed by changing to the latest GA tracking code and placing it in the header as prescribed. I though I would just check to make sure you are using the latest code on your blog?

Yes - if you have a 301 redirect in place from your old URL to the new then around 90-99% of the link juice will be passed from the old links pointing at your old domain. Obviously anchor text that is your old domain isn't ideal in terms of targeting a specific keyword for ranking (though post penguin you don't want to over do keyword rich anchor text anyway) but the juice will still be passed in terms of link juice that will help your new sites domain authority and the page authority of the pages that it is being redirected to..

Hi KLLC

Do you mean that pages are showing up as duplicate content in the SEOMoz crawl report but you have canonical tags in place? If so don't worry as SEOMoz doesn't recognise canonical tags yet and so still reports the pages as duplicate content even though you may have tagged them correctly to help search engines.

Take a look here for more info and scroll down for some SEOMoz staff responses for added help - http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report

Hope this helps

No problem Rob - domain age won't be passed through a 301 redirect

However in relation to the age of a domain and how it impacts your ranking have a look at this interesting Q&A from a couple of months ago -

http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-does-your-urls-age-affect-your-ranking

I think you will be fine if you create a 301 redirect from the old domain and make sure you take the time to build a decent natural looking link profile and have optimised the site for the visitor and not the search engines. Taking into account all the on-page factors without going overboard....

Well what I would say is that when you do a 301 redirect from one domain to another you will lose some of the link juice that has been gained (a 301 passes around 90-99% of juice), so there is chance that when you do this you may see a difference in your SEO rankings. However if done correctly the impact is likely to be minimal and there are plenty of us that have done this successfully and it has worked out for the better. Remember as you said the website is poorly optimised and you are going to be pointing to a new site that has been optimised sensibly and will contain more content, so long term you are on to a winner and you should see improvements in search rankings and traffic generated by your site. Also remember online marketing and SEO is about the long term goals, as well as quick fixes and low hanging fruit that can be picked up, so explain this to the accounting firm and explain how your strategy will cause minimum impact and in the long run it will work to their businesses advantage.

Hope this helps - remember when you do your 301 redirect and tell Google in Google Webmaster Tools that your site has moved it does take time for the search engines to catch up...

branded keywords are those that include your brand and none branded are the generic terms which will take more work and are likely to drive a lot of traffic from generic searches people put in if they don't know your brand. So for instance if I was searching for beer instead of Budweiser beer then ranking highly and gaining traffic from the none branded search would be useful to know as a segment and it would give you a guide as to how your search engine rankings are going.

Hi Thomas - dont worry - the SEOMoz crawl doesn't actually take into account your canonical tags at the moment but it is something they are looking into, so I wouldn't worry you are not the first to report this...

Have a look at this for peace of mind

http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report

The article is still applicable today and here is more info on your topic from a Q&A earlier this year - http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-content-and-http-and-https

You will notice the top endorsed answer (endorsed by DR Pete) uses this method and points to this article

You will also notice a 301 redirect is recommended solution as I mentioned above though they do it the other way around. I would do it to the secure version as that is the one I would imagine you want to be the page that is used as it is secure. Search engines can index both protocols so doing it either way won't harm you...

Yes it does

Have a look here

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https

I would 301 redirect the http:// version to the https:// version to take care of any link issues.

The SeoMoz crawl doesn't actually take into account your canonical tags at the moment but it is something they are looking into, so I wouldn't worry you are not the first to report this...

Have a look at this for peace of mind

http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report

I agree with goodlegaladvice if you have time to rewrite the content this would be the best scenario as you are likely to pick up search visitors.

If you don't have the time you could consider cross domain canonicalization crediting the original clearly to the search engines - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

No problem Antonio,

Your question in regard earning potential - you are looking an impression model from what you have said - so that all depends on the amount of pageviews you get as this sort of advertising measures CPM cost per thousand impressions.

It also depends on what ad network you choose or whether you are going to try and sell your ad space yourself. CPM Ad Networks have different requirements to sign up with them and they all pay differently.

http://www.earningguys.com/advertisement/15-best-cost-per-impression-cpm-ads-networks/

This article gives some well known CPM Ad Networks that you might want to look into or possibly contact to get an idea about what your site could earn. If you could get an average CPM rate that they pay then you could easily estimate your sites potential income.

What is the engagement like on your site?

That is why for peace of mind I would go for a 301 redirect which will pass the majority of link juice in terms of SEO and it will eliminate the old page pointing straight at the new one and telling search engines that your old page has permanently moved to the new URL.

Once search engines catch up they will only index your new page URL and Title which you have optimised eliminating the old unfriendly ones but passing any link juice they have gained at the same time.

Does this make sense?

If you have used a canonical tag to point to the best version of your page then there shouldn't be an issue in terms of SEO and search engines as you are actually telling the search engine that you have two pages that contain the same information and you would like them to take the one mentioned in the canonical tag as the original. You are actually practising good optimisation and that is the whole reason the canonical tag was introduced to help optimise website structure for search engines.

A quick question - when you create this new page that will have a different URL and Title are you going to be keeping the rest of the content the same? If so I would personally use a 301 redirect to the new URL and make sure that you have changed any internal links such as navigation to the new URL and not the old one. When I have had a situation such as this that is what I have done and it has worked well. It is important when changing your site structure and URLs that you make sure your navigation reflects your new URLs and not the old redirected ones, so you don't give mixed messages to the search engines.

I agree with Andy, just update your content.

I would look at going for one long page if I were you, that way you are not in danger of competing with yourself to rank for keywords. From my own experience I have seen users prefer one long article. I have also found that as one article is more content rich so it has generated more long tail traffic, partly due to the page becoming stronger, as all links that it has gained point at one page rather than being spread between two -  making them stronger in the eyes of the search engines (higher Page Authority for one page article).

Also I have seen where multi-page articles have been put into practice and the second part of the article has been the one that has ranked the highest, not ideal in my opinion.

Here is a recent Q&A that will give you more input as to whether to split your page or not - http://www.seomoz.org/q/determining-when-to-break-a-page-into-multiple-pages

Place a 301 redirect on each of those domains pointing at your new abcelectroniccigarettes.co.uk.

Thanks for sharing activitysuper - Irving beat you to it http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-launches-their-disallow-tool

There is some interesting discussions around this from Ryan Kent that is worth a read