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Yeah... I know that I've juste removed BL to my home page (for example).

But these pages were really poor I and I believe that my website is cleaner now... It should please Google now, better than before.

I just hope that it will compensate the bad pages removal.

There are thousands and thousands pages...

I already use GWT and that's not the right way for so many pages...

Hello all !

I've decided to delete many pages from my website wich had poor content.

I've made a php 301 redirect from all these old pages to a unique page (not the home page, a deep page).

My problem is that this modification has been made a week ago and my position in the SERPs have crashed down...

What can I do ? I believe that I'll get up again when Google will see that these pages don't exist anymore but it could take a long time (these page are in the Google cache with a date older than my modification's date)

I've read somewhere that I should put a link to the destination page (where old pages are 301 redirected) but I don't understand how it could help...

Can someone help me ? Tell me what I've done wrong...

These pages were very poor and I've deleted them in order to boost the global quality of my site... It should help me in the SERPs, not penalize me...

Well... Of Course there are some world-class sites better ranked than us and that's fair.

But I think we're not at the right place... Proximeety is 7 years old... There are websites before us that are really younger, with very less backlinks, with far less content, far less members, etc...

That's why we really thnik that there must be a mistake on Proximeety which penalize us... Of course we'd like to hire a SEO in France, but it's hard to find the good person... We don't want a SEO who will explain us that we need to optimize our title or obvious things like that...

OK for the non-www issue.

The page you've found was in another subdir where we didn't change the .htaccess file... Now it's done.

Could you tell me what command you use on google to find this problem on a website ?

About the external links.

You tell me that you find 54 external links on our home page.

I only can find 26.

Of course I understand it's too many links but how do you get your count ?

About our competitors, our main google request is "site de rencontre" (without quotes of course) on google.fr

Proximeety is placed at the end of the second page.

One year ago, we were top 1 ont this search.

That's what we don't understand... we have made a lot of optimisations on our code and the SERPs are getting worse day after day...

Hi All !

I'm the original poster of this question a few monthes ago...

We made some optimizations on our linking strategy and other stuff but we're still going down in the SERPS

Can someone take a look at our home page www.proximeety.com and our website ?

It would be very appreciated if we could get some advices...

Of course we know that it's a real work we're asking so we are ready to pay for that if necessary...

One of our main problem is that we don't understand why our competitors appear at better places in SERPS.

That's OK for the subdomain now..

I found how to do it before your answer.

About the external links... That's not easy because most of these links are links exchanges with other websites and I can't remove them like that

Of course, I can delete some links (about half I think) but I can't only leave a couple...

Thank you !

First... I was already told about the problem months ago with proximeety.com and www.proximeety.com but I thought it was fixed

How did you see that ? What query do you use on Google ?

Here is what is in my .htaccess file and I thought it would fix it :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^proximeety.com.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://www.proximeety.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]

Could you tell me how to change it ?

For the links and the ratio between external and internal links, I know the problem and I think we'll organize our home page différently.

Of course I guess that if I add more internal links it won't be better... The ratio would be better but I my have too many links

Hi all !

Do you think my homepage can still be optimized ?

Here is the URL : http://www.proximeety.com

Of course I'm not only speaking about the home page but I also think about the pages structure, links, etc.

The fact is that my collegues and I are working hard on our SEO since 7 years and the result is that we still see our websites going down in the SERPS during months...

What are we doing wrong ? Our opponents don't seem to be more backlinked or more optimized... I personnaly think that there should be a big mistake on our site that penalize us and our SEO but I can't find what it is...

Can you help us ?

Thank you in advance !