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Interesting on the link building. Do you guest post on blogs and forums? A lot of my products get in the news because of illegal uses of it LOL

If you want to see if something is happening in your niche. For example I got a huge surge in my traffic after the cinnamon challenge. I had no Idea why until it was already starting to die out. I would suggest setting up Google Alerts for your niche keywords. Google will scan for new posts and webpages with those keywords. So if your keywords hit the news you will be the first to know. -Great answer Zeph

@Geoff , so if the blog has content in it would the301 stop the crawl and redirect it? If this is true then the content would not be crawled? I have a friend with a similar issue. He is trying to improve ranking by redirecting his old site (which has content) to his new on.

Do you want to share you website Url I have a few things I can check if you like.

Webmaster tools will let you know if you have unnatural links

Crawl errors

It is easy to set up.

If you changes the URL's make sure you 301 them to the new ones

Did you switch domains?

Do you have a google webmasters account for this site. It allows you to check your vitals of your site.

This may not help with PPC as much. I use concentrateme.com it allows you to import directly from Google analytics and gives you a visual layout of keyword analysis.The program also makes recommendations for long tail keywords. Ranks.nl has a very useful tool for suggested keywords (it uses Semrush date)

I have had the same issue a few weeks ago. I am not sure the same problem I went to SEOMoz and logged in from the homepage and it started working after I refreshed the page.

We use the BBB, personally I love it. Spending $400.00 is a small price for more trust on a site.

I would say it is your layout. You may want to bring some text closer to the top that would captivate the visitor to keep reading and clicking around.

If it were me I would stay away. I get these requests a lot. Do your research.

I use rank checker for Firefox and sometimes it does the same thing, Big drops on keywords I didn't even touch. Where are you seeing the biggest drop I mean what rank tool? Unless you did something crazy your rank should not drop that fast. I would try a few other ranking tool. If you are using Semrush the update their database every month not daily.