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You kept the domain name and all the page URL's the same right?

When you say a "better" server, is it hosted in the UK, and is it a shared server? These things can make a bit of a difference.

Did the rankings drop very soon after the change?

That's about right. Organic does get more than PPC from the stuff I've seen/read and it probably averages at about 80/20. I'd take the search volumes with a pinch of salt anyway though, from any keyword tool

Yeah I wouldn't trust Wordtracker as far as I could throw a lead donkey. Not on its own anyway. I've seen it turn up some pretty weird stuff before, long tail phrases that you wouldn't imagine anyone searching, but it seems to think has loads of searches. Embarrassing if you're showing a client something at the time.

It raises a big red flag for black hat link building/spamming.... in other words it looks totally unnatural to the search engines. If you had links grow naturally they would have a range of words such as the domain name, the company name, words like "view site here", etc... as well as variations of keywords that are relevant.

If you've got a high percentage of keyworded anchor text links that are all the same, you didn't get them naturally, you built them trying to rank for that word

Don't use it on it's own. I use it a lot but never use it for any more than a rough guide. It's based on searches performed in Google... not specific to ads or organic. It throws up numbers that you know are wrong for a start. When you use it, don't use broad match, watch for keyword phrases that are in reverse, and just don't take it as gospel. With the search volumes, use it more as a measure of how popular one keyword is over another. I do use it loads more than other keyword software and despite how volatile and deceitful it is I still think it lies a lot less than any of the others. But once you've got somewhere with your keyword research try then in one or two other tools too i.e. Wordtracker and/or Keyword Discovery

Same, give it two weeks and it'll probably be back with a vengeance... if not then I have no idea. I do wonder what in the algo could cause that and whether it would something something put in intentionally. If it's a side effect of something, what could be the purpose of that something. Oh dark and mysterious Google, why do you play with our minds this way.

I posted this on another thread earlier but here you go

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I suppose it's not really much difference from moving a website from one domain to another, it's just that it's a page instead of a whole site. I've done that before under instruction from clients. I cautioned against it due to the older domain having a bit of trust through age and the new domain being brand new, but thankfully for them their older domain didn't rank that well anyway so it wasn't too much of a loss. I guess it happens any time a company changes its name and therefore its domain for branding purposes. In that sense I suppose it all depends on just how strong the new domain is compared to the older one whether it's a good idea or not.

Most studies seem to contradict each other at least a little on this but they all give a general idea like this one... not sure how accurate it is, but I found it ages ago at

http://www.seoresearcher.com/distribution-of-clicks-on-googles-serps-and-eye-tracking-analysis.htm

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Yeah I don't bother with ALM anymore, it doesn't track like it's supposed to even with the API. AWR is great but ALM is close to useless in my opinion.

You might be trying to go too general with it... figure out who you're targeting first then tailor the content to them.

Nobody can live without Open Site Explorer, it's as simple as that.

Also, if you're an SEO you basically have to stay, every decent SEO has to be a member here.... if we were hiring it would be a prerequisite!

That's what Social Media is for Use Digg, StumbleUpon, etc... to promote the contest. As long as it's done well you'll get some traffic and submissions... there's bound to be some well targeted platforms for it too.

You probably already know this but there's a FF plugin called Google Global which you can use to search from other places if you wanted to check the differences easily

It would depend on the brand name a bit, and if there are common modifiers that tend to go with it. Just do the usual thing and check using Google instant to see any suggestions that come up, plus check search volumes with the keyword tool. If there's searches for "Buy <brand name="">" then yes it will be worth using "buy" and "item" as a prefix and suffix.</brand>

Don't worry, I bought the DVD's and they shipped them over to me in the UK nice and fast... it's not the sort of company that you would ever have any unethical practise problems with.

Sorry, didn't read properly. Yes you should still block those pages anyway though... internal search result pages will still cause you issues in one way or another, whether it's circular navigation or competing for keywords... I would block them anyway.

Thanks I didn't notice I got one too, I just saw that EGOL got one for his response which was a good response.

It's because of abuse of local search. There's a range of possibilities that it could be.

• Your IP submitting too many
• Too many of the same email address or phone number between them
• etc, etc...

Do the agents have actual locations in each of the places? Are you putting in one national phone number and email address or are they getting their own individual ones?

Did they get rejected seemingly randomly or did all the rejections start after a certain point?

You could run Xenu Link sleuth on each of the domains then sort by name until you find how many links go out from it to a specific URL. Will take a while to run if they're big sites but still.