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I can highly recommend CognitiveSEO too. They aggregate all 3 major backlink sources and you can also add in your own upload from GSC. Their tool does an excellent job of categorising the quality of the links, and also an excellent system for easily inspecting the actual pages/backlinks for manual assessment. Tools also include ability to compare your backlinks to crowd-sourced disavow lists, to automatically generate new disavow files, and they've recently added a solid rank-tracking tool and some improved reporting. Well worth checking out. Paul

checked evrything and it has correct versions and its been there for a long time.i know they have lots of links. still no link data yet... Thanks

I agree with Andy on this one. That resource from Google will be a huge help for you. One thing to consider would be to you might also find some useful answers in this video from Matt Cutts. It is about using different IP addresses for different countries, but there is some other useful info in there pertinent to your issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0k6BBgQgqM

I agree with Jeff's suggestion. Although, just for fun I plugged both URLs into Open Site Explorer and they are really kind of a statistical dead heat, One has one more link than the other, and the one Jeff prefers has marginally better MozRank and Moz trust, but not by much. The overall Page Authority is identical at 13. They probably both could use some love, but yes, it appears you might at the very least have a keyword cannibalization issue. I understand how this happens because it usually results from an attempt to address navigation and try to assure that visitors are finding items they want via several different paths. Frankly, duplicate content happens a lot on eCommerce sites. People often talk about "duplicate content penalties." There is no such thing. It might just cause Google to rank one page and ignore the other, or rank both pages lower because it can't tell which one is really the important one....but it isn't a penalty, per se. Still, lots of duplicate content can cause other problems (like interfere with how much of your site gets crawled on a regular basis), so it's good to address where possible. Canonical tags should do the trick in this case. Cheers, Dana

Hi there, thanks for your question! You've received some excellent responses. Did any of them help you resolve your issue? We'd love a status update, thanks! Christy

Thanks- we have seen Unnatural links warnings come in as well (other domains) -ranking dropped we left it for a week- and it came back to the same place.... Undecided at this point what i will do- might start with Disavow of links....and go from there...

I'd be inclined to suggest individual blogs on individual domains. Doing this will allow each blog to cater to that countries specific market and better engage your audience. Let's face it, something that is of interest to some in New Zealand is not necessarily of interest to a UK-based market. Let me know if you disagree and we can discuss further.

You might want to get some rel="alternate" hreflang="x" attribution on those different domains to be safe. Especially if you are (you should be) using localised spelling for each country. See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en From above link, scenario where rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is recommended: "Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and Ireland."

the Crumpler website has an excellent brand and social media presence which ranks really well in Australia for just about any bag related search. Probably due to it being a well established web presence for a long time

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Thanks- Always original content - that's for sure. Maybe I will have to link to the articles from my PR 2 and go from there.... Thanks

Guess, those are just backups of the htaccess file...