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Thank you Mike,

Very appreaciated

Mike,

Thank you for your comment.

The changes were made during March 2012, since then I have been checking the SEOMOZ ranking tool and have been pulling my hair out of my head.

From April to June we lost about 40% of traffic.

Each month we had much more declined keywords than improved ones.

The drop off started immediately after the updates were made.

Here are the monthly visits for non branded keywords:

Feb: 542

March: 510

April: 436

May:426

June: 288

Cheers

Here is an example:

The title:

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"Data centre & server room energy audits - Energy efficient design of data centres & computer rooms"

was renaimed "Data centre & server room energy audits - Energy saving computer rooms"

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"Data centre Consultancy and independent advice - Data centre solutions : [Our Company Name]" was renaimed

| "Building a data centre - independent advice" |

etc. to a total of 76 page titles.

Then the pages started dropping in Google.

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Good question.

I did not change the URL structure, I do plan on doing it as the URLs are not SEO friendly.

I will send an example.

It has been decreasing for the past 4 months consistently. I will put together some sample and post them. Thanks

Hello,

My website was ranking for over 100 keywords but was not really optimised properly.

For example, the page title was much too long, it was segmented like this:

"keyword - Category - domain "

I followed recommandations in SEOMOZ and I removed the domain and category from the long page titles to only leave the keyword and updated the H1 to reflect also the keyword.

We dropped in ranking since even though we did not change anything, only made things more SEO optimised.

I don't understand how it made us drop in ranking??

David

Hello,

Google is ranking my homepage for many keywords instead of showing the various sites pages?

Any idea why?

Thanks,

David

Hi,

When a page has too many links (over 100) due to the number of monthly blog archives for example, is it possible to use a code (like no index but just for one link)  that would prevent Google from counting the link? Or not in which case the only options would be to leave the extra links or to delete them.

I do not want to put a no index at the page level but more at link level by preventing SE to follow the least important links but keeping them active for users.

Thank you,

David

Thank you Egol.

Your insights were very helpful.

David

Thank you Egol,

I believe that when you mention indexing category pages and index pages you refer to titles only.

For now, the CMS is indexing each entire article in the monthly archive page. Which can create quite long pages as articles are not truncated.