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In my opinion is not the same. First, because the link has a very strong effect in your website rank, and the like has a minor effect.

I made some research and I didn't found anything about that. Don't worry, there is no problem.

Usually when you change themes you can have a temporary drop down, this is normal.

Please, read this Q&A there is a very good answer from EGOL: http://www.seomoz.org/q/seo-template-for-new-website

There are also new things you will need to care about. First, now the load speed matters for the rank, so you need to use the https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/ what you can improve.

After, now google will give importance for content in the beginning of the website (you don't have content there). You should work on it.

After this you will need to wait. Everything in SEO world took a time. You will need to make in meantime is to use SEOMOZ tools and Google Webmaster tools to check and recheck everything.

Im using normal html website.

I used the www.templatemonster.com or http://themeforest.net/, but is difficult to find a template with a focus on SEO.

Also with the necessity to include text in the beginning of the website, is difficulty to found something really good.

Hi Jonathan,

Welcome to the gray SEO world, full of "ifs" and google actualization. Is very hard to tell what happened, there is a lot of factors.

Google is change the algoritms again, and some points as load speed and text in the beginning of the website are becoming important.

And there is also the action from the concorrent websites. They got more links? they changed the website?

One tip I can give to you is stay connected at SEOMOZ blog to see the last changes at google and get a change to be ahead of the other websites.

Hy Gareth,

In my opnion its look like spammy. Try to use more long tail keywords, so your presence at google will be more wide. When you focus only one keyword, it will be harder and you will not increase the number of visitors in your webpage (the key here is the long tail keywords).

I think the above Blog posts will help you:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/breadcrumbs-how-important-are-they

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-long-tail-patterns

Hi Russel,

Welcome to the club my friend! I'm in the same boat as you and I decide to get the SEO process by myself.

The difficulty is that everything is gray, with severals "ifs" that change with the time. So, for beginning read the SEOMOZ Beginner SEO Guide. Second, buy several books - difference points of view will help you with your's webpages specifics issues. Read the blogs form SEO MOZ - to be always with the more update information.

This is the easy part of the job, the difficulty one is to put this in practice and understand for your business what is better. I'm almost two years studying and until now I didn't reach #1. Its a hard SEO world

For you I see no problem leaving the links without nofollow. I hope I could help.

Best Regards,

Naghirniac

Leave only the 
RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://www.newdomain.com/

take out the other part

You can use like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.newsite.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://www.newdomain.com/

Hi James,

I made some research, and there is several solutions, some depends on your Apache version. Try the rule above to see if it solve your problem:

RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://www.newdomain.com/

If not, you should take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/ The website has a lot of discussion on this theme.

Hy Samuel,

In this case one good option is to use the metatag rel cannonical. Do you know this? You will need to input in the page, inside the section the follow:

where example.com/index.html is the page that you want google consider. With this google will no more consider duplicate content for your other pages.

To have more detailed info, check this post out: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts

Dear Paul,

SEO is a crasy world, and when your website droped down, you can have one million options to really explain what happened.

In my opinion, there is not wrong with your site adress, I think the problem should be in other places. I made a fast analyses, and there is some important points:

First, in opensiteexplorer you see that you have a new website, without Pagerank. So you will need to wait a little bit until google read your site and understand it.

Second, I don't find any backlinks yet. This is one of the most important poins in SEO.

There are also minor corrections:
Page Title - its to long (max is 66) and the "compare travel insurance" should be the first words of the title.
Page description - watch ou for keyword stuffing.

Your page has a lot of content, and this is very important.

My opinion - wait a little bit that your website will rocket. Use the opensiteexplorer.com to follow how is your website evolution go. And good luck, because the life in SEO is not easy.

This is a very important point, because google change a lot how they threat the nofollow links, and some people stay with old premisses.

The nofollow links lose the benefit of the link juice. In my opinion, for you website, there is no problem to use links without the nofollow.

You should read these posts to help you out:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/nofollow-is-dying-the-impact-of-microblogging-and-nofollow-on-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-dangers-of-nofollow

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-how-do-we-plug-the-nofollow-leak

I was with the same difficult - what is key word stuffing for google? And I didn't found a black and white answer. There is a lot of "i think", and with this answer you will need to create your "i think".

First, there was in Q&A a very good answer for that from Ryan Kent, you will fount it here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/stuffing-keywords-into-urls

Second, you should use the schema.org to define more detailed your website. So, if work with products, you can define via schema your product name, description and so on. This might be not considered in keyword stuffing for google.

Third, use your judment. Its always the best solution.

Fourth, if you find the answer, please let me know....

Ian,

You will need to do the follow:

1) Search pages indexed by google

You will need to do the 301 redirection only for the pages that google already indexed. To discovery then you need to google "site:www.example.com", where example.com is your website

2) Create the .htaccess file

Inside of the .htaccess file you will need to include:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

_redirect 301 /old.html http://www.example.com/new.html_

The first part is to avoid duplicated content from www.example.com and example.com. The line redirect 301 you will need to write for each page you need a redirection (founded at step 1). That's all.

Xee,

It always help, and it is very easy to implement. This function to show the path to the sitemap ir very good.

Anyone already use it? There is some speed benefit?

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html 

If you don't have an robot.txt file, you need to include some important stuff first.

First, do you have a sitemap.xlm for your website? If not, its very important and you should creat it at: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Create a robot.txt file and include the follow:

User-agent: * allow: / disallow: /directoryname
Sitemap: http://www.yousite.com/sitemap.xml

With this you will inform all robots where is your sitemap. You should read more about robots.txt in this great post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts