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we ended up getting a violation because our website was infected with maleware. We successfully identified the code, removed it and subsequently were noticed by Google that the site was now clean.

During the period when the site was infected, our adwords campaigns were suspended by Google, which made total sense. We never got an specific notifications from the Adwords group stating they were suspending the campaigns.

We assumed that once the site was determined to be 'cleaned' by Google, our Adwords campaigns could be re-activated.

So far, our efforts to reach out to Google have failed. No communications and no understanding what still remains to be addressed.

Any suggestions or contact information would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help and support.

Alan

Google adwords not allowing us to reactivate after GWT violation removed and site deemed clean by Google.

Attempts at reaching them for guidance have been unsuccessful. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

We have a large and old site. As we've transition from one CMS to another, there's been a need for create 301 redirects using our ht access file.

I'm not a technical SEO person, but concerned that the size of our ht access file might be contributing source for long page download times.

Can large ht access files cause slow page load times?  Or is the coding of the 301 redirect a cause for slow page downloads?

Thanks

In both the new GA and former version, how are RSS feeds handled by Google Analytics.

If not, is there an easy means by which to account for this traffic, in order to have a better picture of traffic.

Thanks.

Alan

Thanks Joel. I have a laptop and at times, the distinction between google adwords and organic seems faint. Nevertheless... I think you're right. To the unsophisticated, not sure they make note of the differences, when they don't know there's a difference in results. I agree... there's good synergy when you can get ppc and organic working...as they say in real estate...location, location, location... when you see those results repeatedly on the same page... it has impact. Thanks.

Thanks Saijo. I somewhat agree. The distinction between organic and ppc, now that ppc has moved to the top left side from the olden days of just being on the right hand sidebar... blurs the differences. Thanks.

Thanks for your response. We've invested many years in SEO successfully. One interesting change over the past year is that the traffic has dropped for some KW phrases without any change in rankings in Google. In some cases, these are terms sitting at #1 or #2. I think the demarcation between PPC and organic is becoming harder to distinguish and given the naivete of many consumers... many assume the listings are one and the same. If I'm right, it means that a higher percentage of searches are pulling from sponsored links than organic compared to the past. Is there any data or research to negative or support this assumption? Thanks. Alan

Simply put, are consumers clicking on ppc in lieu of organic search. In the past, people use to say that ppc accounted between 30-40% of traffic with organic accounting for majority of activity. My question is whether those numbers have changed, and if so, where are we now?

A friend in Boston in does SEO, remarked that many of her 'sophisticated' friends didn't know the difference between ppc and organic.  Seems odd, but with the move to place ppc results  from the right hand sidebar to the top left hand column, certainly gives it more presence and makes the separation between ppc vs. organic less distinct.

I certainly understand the value of doing both, but depending on the answer, it begs the question... is the expense of moving up a position or two in organic worth the effort and monies, if ppc is becoming the dominant raffic tdriver?

Anybody have any recent statistics on ppc vs. organic?

Thanks.

So I can be clear, if there is one landing page for the main KW phrase, but there are a number of KW phrases that drive traffic to that landing page, you are recommending looking at the traffic changes of those individual KW phrases.

For example.... if the main KW phrase and landing page is: healthy eating recipes. But we have 5-10 KW phrases that drive traffic to that landing page... look for the differences in each of those traffic channels as a possible clue. Is that correct?

thanks.

thanks... will look for on-page differences, if any.

Before we are comparing 2011 traffic to 2012... I don't see 'not provided' category for the march 2011 period.  if there's another way of obtaining this, would appreciate guidance.

I can share that the declines in actual traffic are significant, not even moderate. And this holds true for the top ranking KW terms.... as opposed to the long-tail.  making it especially disconcerting.

my great fear is that ppc is starting to overtake organic search search in very competitive search markets... given the number of sponsored offers between Google and something I'v been seeing...buzzads  that sits above google adwords in my browser.. hence a total of 8 sponsored links before you can see the organic search options. Not to mention has faint the sponsor link box has become.

thanks.

We have a large and old site. As we've transition from one CMS to another, there's been a need for create 301 redirects using our ht access file.

I'm not a technical SEO person, but concerned that the size of our ht access file might be contributing source for long page download times.

Can large ht access files cause slow page load times?  Or is the coding of the 301 redirect a cause for slow page downloads?

Thanks

Thanks for your response. We've invested many years in SEO successfully. One interesting change over the past year is that the traffic has dropped for some KW phrases without any change in rankings in Google. In some cases, these are terms sitting at #1 or #2. I think the demarcation between PPC and organic is becoming harder to distinguish and given the naivete of many consumers... many assume the listings are one and the same. If I'm right, it means that a higher percentage of searches are pulling from sponsored links than organic compared to the past. Is there any data or research to negative or support this assumption? Thanks. Alan