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Happy to help. The first thing you need to do is find out if the SEO done to your site could also be the reason why your site dropped. Even with the EMD update, to drop from #8 to #96 there must be something else going on.

Ask yourself these questions:

Is the content on your site over-optimised?

Does your link profile look unnatural (exact keyword anchor text, low quality links, article directories, blog comments, link wheels, etc.) ?

Could you have any on-page issues (duplicate content, over-optimised meta, etc.)?

If you show us your sites we will be able to give you better advice.

Before the recent update from Google having the keywords in the domain helped a lot.

I'm sure that they still help somehow, but to get back to where you were you will need to build up the authority of your site (good links, social signals, quality content, etc - nothing new).

As Simon said, also check your WMT account and see if you have any messages from Google regarding unnatural links.

are the domains "exact match domains"?

if so, you may want to have a look at this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-emd-algo-update-early-data

If it is a Panda or Penguin penalty you will have to conduct a link review and remove links to your site that could be triggered the penalty. More on how to do that here: http://www.branded3.com/b3labs/cleaning-your-links-a-step-by-step-guide/

Thanks, I can edit or make a copy of the sheet. Is this the one? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apam75iNJI9idERXRktaTFZRME1Kdjl2c3NZYmtBSFE#gid=2

Hi all,

Was wondering if maybe using the SEOmoz API there was a way to check in excel the page authority of 500 URLs or more?

Or is there a different way to do this?

Thanks,

Carlos

1- Create Google & Bing Webmaster accounts

2- Submit Sitemaps

3- Share in Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc

I'd also tell you to get some quality links but that usually takes longer than 24 hours

Hi Allen,

So you have your .com.au that is set to target Australia and you want a .com which will have the same content and will target some other country?

All you need to do is implement the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

If you implement those tags your sites will not experience duplicate content issues.

Implementing the Rel=canonical will result in only one of our sites ranking, with the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags both your sites have a chance to rank in the respective countries.

Thanks,

Carlos

It depends of your CMS, and duplicate Titles and Descriptions won't help you much.

You need to talk to your developer and see if they can implement an automatic system for Meta Information i.e. [keyword/s] | [call to action] | [brand]

Sorry that I couldn't be of much help!

Hi All,

I have a site that gets around 500,000 visits every month from the UK and US, but funny enough the number number of visits under (not provided) traffic is only 179 per month.

For most websites I usually get 10% or 15% of the traffic under not provided, what could the reasons be for such a low percentage of (not provided)?

Thanks,

Carlos

The search engine will break it up, whether you rank for the more competitive variations of "buy natural progesterone cream uk" will depend of the page/domain authority your site has and how relevant your content is to those keywords.

Hi All,

Got a question about site structure, I currently have a website where everything is hosted on the root of the domain. See example below:

site.com/men

site.com/men-shorts

site.com/men-shorts-[product name]

I want to change the structure to site.com/men/shorts/[product-name]

I have asked a couple of SEOs and some agree with me that the structure needs to be changed and some say that as long as I dictate the structure with internal links and breadcrumbs the URL structure doesn't matter...

What do you guys think?

Many thanks,

Carlos