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eyepaq,

Thanks a lot for your time on studying my site and for your input on this matter.

I have never received a message from Google about spam issues on this site and I just checked the "manual" section and it's empty. I'm afraid it could have been hacked as you stated above, I will need to audit all my link profile.

Cheers

eyepaq,

Thanks for the tip, I am leaving some information plus the URL for anybody to comment and advice on it but if any of you guys know of a good SEO company please share.

URL: www.woodlandsnewhomes.com

Look at image attached, it is a screenshot from Google Analytics, it took a hit on July 5, 2012 and since then traffic dropped by 54%.

This site was getting 700 to 800 organic visits per day and on July 5, 2012 dropped to 419 but kept dropping and now the site averages 220 to 300 visits per day.

Cheers

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I am looking to have an SEO specialist to audit and do consultation on one of my sites. This website never received a penalty from Google but was hit algorithmically and I need to bring it back up strong on the serps.

Who do you recommend from the "recommended list" from MOZ?

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Michael,

Yes, that's what I have in mind, maybe I didn't explain it well but that exactly the idea ...I am just not so sure how to 301 redirect the main domain, I will discuss with my programmer the code you provided on your answer.

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I am merging 11 real estate community sites into 1 regional site and don't really know what type of redirect should I use for the homepage?, for instance:

www.homepage.com redirect to www.regionalsite.com/community-page

Should I 301 this redirect? If yes, how could I 301 redirect a homepage to an internal page in my new site?

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Hopefully it is the first option ...thanks for your input!

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To maintain a clean profile.

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Hello,

I don't quite understand your question, if you are adding more category pages, you should have more pages instead of less, just make sure to 301 redirect every single old page and you shouldn't have a problem.

I had to do something similar to one of my sites like 3 months ago and I did loose pagerank on some pages but ranking got better so I wouldn't worry much about pagerank.

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Hello,

I've been working on removing some sitewide links and some directory links and I would like to know what to expect to see on my rankings based on your own experience if you've dealt with this before.

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I'm a little confused about c-blocks, I've been reading about them but I still don't get it.

1. Are these similar to sitewide links?
2. do they have to come from websites that I own and hosted in the same ip?
3. and finally, what's better ...more or less linking c-blocks?

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I use Chrome in "incognito mode", it works okay.

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Cody, what you explained is kind of similar to my situation, the 11 sites I have are all Real Estate sites and they contain different "area" information (because they cover different geographic areas) but they share the same database of properties for sale.

We do have set different search results pages to avoid showing the same properties on every site, but, there is a link to similar properties on each property page which eventually the crawler ends up indexing all properties within the database so when you mention ..."every site had the same products"... this could be a similar situation.

As of now, I am waiting to see what happens next with my rankings, I guess I am a little lost on how long will it take until some signals are reflected on the serps, any idea?

Cheers and thanks a lot for writing about your experience with this.

Well, it's kind of hard for me to expand on this topic being that this is not my business nor vision. That is something that you guys should focus on to define a business strategy and increase conversion $$$$ and once you do this, traffic will flow by many other channels (not just Google) word of mouth, social media shares, etc.

There are many ways to make your business model successful but you just got to find your niche, find out where they hang out, what they like, what they want to read and capture them in a way that they will keep coming back and referring you to friends and family.

Have you ever used amazon.com? If you haven't, I suggest you shop at least a book (there are tons and really good books) but pay attention to all details from registration to completion of transaction.

I know this is not a solid answer to your questions but this is my opinion without knowing your business culture/vision, and again, brainstorm and define a business model then put all plans to action.

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It is very important to submit your website to Google so that it can index all of your pages.

First, check if your site is being crawled by Google bot and you can do this using the Google Webmaster Tools, I suggest you become familiar with these tools.

Second, check how many pages are in Google's index by typing in the Google's search box the following:

site:www.yourdomain.com (replace "yourdomain" with your domain name)

Third, get a sitemap ...there are many tools to generate XML format sitemaps, check with a programmer to find a solution and generate this sitemap automatically as you add more pages to your website.

In my opinion, there's no need to submit many times your website to Google, just check the crawl rate and you should be fine.

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Moosa,

Yes, the first thing I did was to remove all these links ...as of now, I am going through all my external links and cleaning some directory links that I had from many years ago which might seem spammy to penguin.

Really appreciate your comments, cheers

Michael, these links were on the footer of each site. I think I was hit algorithmically because I haven't received any message from Google but like I said, my organic visits are down by 43% compared to last year.

Thanks a lot for your input, cheers

Here you go:

1. Fetch and submit using your homepage URL
2. Could you please explain a bit more this question?
3. While using this tool, Google allows up to 10 submission per month (don't submit more than once, submit it for the first time and give it some days ...4, 5 days)

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I agree with Michael Edwards, right after I clicked on the "Shop Now" button ...I didn't feel "safe" about continuing with the transaction (this comment is off your original topic) but I think is a huge piece of your puzzle that should be fixed.

Your site is like a mini-amazon.com, the difference is that amazon.com captures the product provider AND the user/buyer all in one environment...think about that.

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I've got 4 sites in my Moz account but I haven't received duplicate emails, so all good on my end.

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You can request for a fetch by logging in to your Google Webmaster Tools account, select your site and the "fetch as Google" tool is on the left sidebar under the "Crawl" category.

There's a limit of 500 fetches per month and I think up to 10 submissions.

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