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Hi Stephen,

Photo / Print Retail.

A la Photobox, Vistaprint etc

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Hi,

I am currently looking for a new SEO agency to manage strategies on 3 websites, budget of about £15k pm in total.

Any recommendations would be really appreciated as trying to navigate through all the usual sales waffle and hollow promises of most SEO agencies is becoming rather difficult.

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Hi Nakul,

That is a big help, thanks.

is there a general concensous about how much established SEO benefits gets passed through with a 301? I.e does 100% of link juice etc get passed through from one domain 301'd to another?

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Hi,

I have a few questions around the best approach to retain as much link juice / authority from transitioning multiple domains into 1 single domain over the next year or so.

I have 2 similar websites (www.brandA.co.uk and www.brandB.co.uk) which I need to transition to a new website (www.brandC.co.uk) over the next 2 years. Both A&B are established and have there own brand value, brand C will be a new website.

I need to start introducing the brand from website C onto A&B straight away and then eventually drop the brands from A&B and just be left with C.

One idea I am considering is:

www.brandA.co.uk becomes brandA.brandC.co.uk (brandA sits as a subdomain on brandC website)

Ultimately over time I would drop the subdomain (brandA) and just be left with www.brandC.co.uk

The other option is:

www.brandA.co.uk becomes brandC.co.uk/brandA...with the same ultimate aim as above.

In both above case the same would be done for brandB, either becoming a subdomain of a folder on brandC website

What I need to know is what is the best way to first pass any SEO goodness from the websites for brandA and brandB to the intermediate solution of either brandA.brandC.co.uk or brandC.co.uk/brandA (I see this intermediate solution being in place for approx 2 years). And then how to transition the intermediate solution into just having brandC.co.uk

Which solution will aid growing the SEO goodness on the final brandC.co.uk website? Does google see subdomains as part of the main domain and thus the main domain will benefit from any links going to the subdomain or is it better to always use /folders as google sees these as more part of one website?

...or is there another option that I haven't considered?

I know it's rater confusing so please give me a shout if you want anymore info.

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James

Hi Peter,

We get get a message from Google via webmaster tools in Feb about 'unnatural links', but it's difficult to identify which links they are referring to. We certainly don't deliberatly or activly ingage in any sort of unnatural link building.

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Thanks Dilson.

Hi,

Our website www.photoworld.co.uk has been improving it's SERP's for the last 12 months or so, achieving page 1 rankings for most of our key terms.

Then suddenly, around the end of March, we suffered massive drops in nearly all of our key terms (see attached image for more info).

Basically I wondered if anyone had any clues on what Google has suddenly taken a huge dislike to with our site and steps we can put in place to aid with rankings recovery ASAP.

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Hi Guys & Gals,

There are a couple of already registered domains i'd like to get my hands on, but i'm coming up against a brick wall.

I have already tried contacting the domain owners directly if there contact info is available through whois and tried using a domain brokerage service from the likes of SEDO to try and acquire the domain on my behalf...but they seem to only work they have solid whois contact info to use.

My problem is that where do I turn now after the above routes failing? Are there any good domain brokerage services you are aware off or any other approach I could try to aquire such domains??

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James

Hi Keri,

We submitted a reconsideration request through Webmaster tools and got index within a week!

I am non the wiser why the site wasn't being indexed.

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James

Hi,

I've just given that a blast, fingers crossed it does the trick!

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