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I've been tasked with helping the IT department of a large company make a case for keeping their regional website and simply re-branding over having their website absorbed into that of their parent company(located elsewhere in the world). The report I've written so far is for too long to ask everyone here to read, but I wanted to make sure that I'm not forgetting anything from an SEO standpoint. I'm also digging for numbers from a reputable source to back our claims.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a reputable source that has researched/published statistics on the benefits of a regional website from a SEO or general marketing standpoint?

So how did it go? I'm fighting these battles a lot now. For a lot of my smaller clients the SERP is filled almost entirely with Yellowpages, Superpages, Yelp, {insert random directory}

I have managed to make decent progress for one of the tougher local subjects "bail bonding". We're now doing quite well and have #1 spots for most of our targeted words. It was easier than expected.  A couple good links was all it took.

Thanks, I'll wait a day or two then talk to them. I'm positive they're missing links. Most are long standing and can still be verified.

Thanks for the reply! Yeah I definitely understand this. My traffic is up 500% because of some new links I picked up. unfortunately this traffic doesn't convert well because its mostly from my peers and not perspective clients.

I've seen a 25-30% loss in organic results which has a far better conversion rate. If site explorer is getting hung up checking my links maybe Google is too?

Thanks for the reply! A Lot of the ones I lost weren't .gov or .edu though they were among the others I lost. I'm down to 1 from hundreds.

My personal website http://Bsalva.com has started to drop in both page authority and domain authority.

This seems to be largely due to open site explorer not picking up all of my inbound links. Right now it says I only have one linking root domain, but I know this to be crap. I have quite a few followed links from well trusted and reputable sites. My page rank typically bounces between a 5 and 6. I should also have hundreds of inbound links.

The other sites In my campaign monitor haven't  taken such a hit so I'm starting to get a little worried.

Does anyone know what might cause incoming links to not me recognized?  they were just fine last month, and I can go find them on the web as we speak.