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1st Don't rush into anything, You must decide the end goal and results you would like to achieve.

2nd Duplicate content is bad, although you may not get a penalty it is definitely a black mark.

3rd 301's are a good option like Aaron said,  just bear in mind you will likely lose the position in the search engine for the old URL and you may not regain the position with the new domain.  I would recommend using a url rewrite in the htaccess file otherwise you will end up with a generic 301 and a lot of links broken.

Let's say this is some of your old URLs:-

www.domain.com/product/shoes

www.domain.com/blog/how-to-look-smart

Let's say your new site is www.newdomain.com (With the same content links etc), If you did a standard 301 it would divert to www.newdomain.com However the subsequent URL after the.com would be lost i.e. they would just end up on the homepage of www.newdomain.com not www.newdomain.com/product/shoes.

In your htaccess file you set up a rewrite so it would redirect to the new domain name without changing the URL structure like this www.domain.com/product/shoes Redirects to www.newdomain.com/product/shoes

Is there any benefit in requesting manual removal over using the Google disavow file?  Or is it just extra work for little result.

I.e. is it better to just disavow straightaway and not mess around?

Thanks

Thanks interesting, makes good sense.
So to clarify an exception might be if you were promoting brand name?

Should the h1 tag be used for the main page content or the logo?

I understand the original method was too H1 the logo with the main search term, does this still hold true or should it be content focused?

I need to do a back link audit on an e-commerce site, their number of back links large proportion of them are okay but we seem to have collected a few bad ones (not by us) along the way.

Need a recommendation of a good quality reliable tool or set of tools with a proven track record.

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I realise in some ways this may be a little out the scope of this forum but thought I'd throw it out just in case there's any suggestions floating around.

We need a good marketing CRM system with contact and lead scoring that doesn't cost ridiculous money.

Initially when we put a contact into our system it only has very basic information (sometimes only an email address), furthermore not even a lead at that stage. Hence the need for contact scoring opposed to lead scoring. We need to be able to build information on that customer up over time.

Most CRM systems will only start scoring when there's a lead with a quote or a tangible price that can be calculated and therefore scored.

If you need clarification please ask.

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Are there any tools out there to see historical positions of keywords for competitors?

I haven't been tracking the keywords, just wondered if there is any cached data anywhere?

I do have Moz Pro, however I won't necessarily be tracking the keywords/pages that is dropped off. At this stage I don't know which they are.

According to the last crawl there had been several substantial increases, I just don't know who to believe!

I've just had an idea I should be able to use a export from WMT and Excel with a few formulas.

There does seem to have been a traffic drop, or more specifically a drop in orders which would tie up nearly directly to that date.

How is the best way of comparing positions between two dates?

Have been looking at WMT and discovered that on 10 October there was substantial average position drop, from around 14 to 20.  
Does anyone have any ideas why this may have happened?

As far as I know there's nothing that we have done could have impacted.

This may seem a bit of a broad question but grateful for all knowledgeable input!

There are many things to focus on when looking at organic SEO, but where should I be spending the most time/effort in order to increase traffic.

Have an online e-commerce store and need to start on keyword research.  There is a round 1000 products, not very many all things considered but a very big job to do manually.

Do you know any tools that could speed it up?

or

Process/method that could help?

Thanks

Morning Li,

Like Umar said, It's properly not to detrimental again I would say best avoided if it could be removed, words in URLs are taken into account by search engines.

If the URL is: http://www.costumedirect.com.au/search.php?search_query=edward

The search engine will see something like this: costumedirect com au search search query edward

And it will try to match it with the search term used, so if you have unnecessary words the search term will become less relevant.

Sorry hope that isn't too much in-depth let me know if you need me to go into more detail or explain a little more.

All the best.

To obtain an SEO benefit from an SSL is there any particular type or brand which is recommended or has a track history?

It seems you can pay anything between $20 and $???? (For that matter whatever you want to pay!).

Any experience gratefully accepted!

Thanks

I have over 1000 keywords to sort out , I need a tool that picks up on variations and symmons.

Does anyone know of a very good tool that is available?

If not I'll do it the long way round with Excel

I would like to point out I am not green to SEO, but explicit answers do help

The site is brand-new and built-in WordPress, I'm not aware of any major issues impacting.

Could you elaborate what you mean by 'every other SEO issue'

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Is it worthwhile going after a good score on Google page speed?

Had prices but a LOT of money, and don't know if it's worth it or not.

Also to add to the complication it is a new site.

Does anyone have any experience if it helps rankings?

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Put the following in Google it will show you which links Google has indexed (Where your competitors domain name is domainname.com):-

domainname.com -site:domainname.com

It is possible that the information is out of date it is even more likely that search engines (especially Google) no longer takes any notice of these links.

The answer to your question is it does seem in some situations have a small impact, However if you want a worthwhile increasing your SERPS I would probably focus on quality content on your own site.

One thing you should remember once someone has clicked an outgoing link from your site they are far less likely they'll come back, so if you expect them to spend money there are far more likely to spend it with the person you have linked to rather than your own site.

Hope that makes sense.

Just my two cents worth.