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Hi Erica, & Alan below...

Thank you both very much for taking the time to respond to my query.  It's as much as we suspected, and it's great to get your expert views on this.

We will take your advice on board and go forth, and clean-up! Oh to have a time machine.

Thanks again guys, have a great week/weekend.

Aidan

Hi guys,

Our brand site (http://urban3d.net) has been seeing steady decline due to algorithm updates for the past two years.

Our previous SEO company engaged in some black-hat link building which has hurt us very badly.  We have recently re-launched the site, with better design, better content, and completed a disavow of hundreds of bad links.

The site is technically indexed, but is still nowhere in the SERPs after months of work to recover it by our internal marketing team.

The last SEO company also told us to build EMD sites for our core services, which we did:

http://3dvisualisation.co.uk/

http://propertybrochure.com/

http://kitchencgi.com/

My question is - could these EMD sites now hurting us even further and stopping our main brand site from ranking? Our plan is to rescue our brand site, with a view to retiring these outlier sites. However, with no progress on the brand site, we can't afford to remove these site (which are ranking). It seems a bit chicken and egg.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Aidan, Urban 3D