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No, this site is doing very well, the site and the keywords. Our mistake was having this particular seo company help us with link building.

Thank you for your reply, much appreciated.

Thank you so much for confirming what I was feeling Just needed to hear it from another in the field. I appreciate your time, thank you for responding.

We're finding a lot of comments that were posted by a previous company - they've been using a keyword as the comment name (UGH) and then the comments are usually generic, like "great information, will definitely be back to read more form you" - you guys know what I mean...

Now, this site is ranking well and so are the keywords. My question is, should we work on removing those comments or just leave them be and now moving forward, use the proper process - since we are doing this ourselves now.

Great point - thank you!

Hi,

If an item page has  'related items' links and  'you may also like' links - and both those are essentially the same links, doesn't it make sense to only have one set?

Sometimes things seem so confusing but yet they are extremely simple. Thank you, you've helped

To make this easier:

I want to remove all items in buyoutdoorsheds.com (store B) and place them into budgetpackaging.com (Store A), then 301 the links to the same items in budgetpackaging.

Also thinking of a brand change for budgetpackaging. Either 301 Items from budgetpackaging.com to buyoutdoorsheds.com or 301 them to a different URL. Everything will still be working out of the now called budgetpackaging.com. did you get that LOL.

Bascially, use the URL from buyoutdoor and use the temple or website of budgetpackaging.com. Just want to get rid of “budgetpackaging” and use something more relevant.

Yes they both sell outdoor storage sheds.I really appreciate your insight on this. What about re-branding and changing the URL of Store A once all redirects take place?

Here's the situation: 2 online stores. Store A is doing really well, traffic, sales, and keyword ranking wise. Store B, not so much. Owner wants to redirect all links from store B to store A and then possibly re-brand store A and give it a different URL.

This is a slow time, sales pick up in spring. I would like opinions on this from anyone who has done this or knows about it. Risks, benefits, best practices on going about it, etc...

Thank you,

Lisa

Oh this was/is major. I had one keyword go from # 8 to #480

With my site - no not yet. However, Brian did shed some light on the issue and was very helpful.

Brian, thank you for taking the time to call me and help me with this issue!

Yes, I know about Panda...but this stuff happened on the evening of the 17th - we dropped like a rock./

It's frustrating - not because it happened, but because I don;t know WHAT happened and if I don't know what happened I can't fix it!

Interesting! Traffic isn't too bad - my guess is that's because we use cpc too and maybe the keywords that tanked didn't bring in much organic traffic anyway but some of my keywords went from #11 to #370!

Hey there - I think we chatted in another thread Why wouldn't they mention this?? Hmmmm...

thanks for you help

Alright, what gives? Something major with Google SERPs went down on Jan. 17th. I have a site that was ranking well for 7 keywords - normal fluctuations from page 1-3, for 8 months. We never had any issues with Panda/Penguin and in fact, Nov./Dec. were excellent months.

Then BAM, on the 17th all but 2 keywords tanked...not even in the top 100! 2 remain on page 2/3 - very odd....I've seen lots of talk about something happening...anyone have a better idea or even KNOW what happened?

Thank you!

Do you mean as in duplicate content or too high keyword ratio? If so, I checked for duplicate content, didn't find much off site or on, fixed what I could. All the content was originally written and added to the site months ago. Survived Panda in Oct. Nov. and Dec. so why now? It's a mystery...

Yes - it's a skin care site so each category page is www.sitename/categoryname

I just don't get why 2 did well (the most competitive) and the others are MIA

I posted this and had some help (thank you!) but found some new things, so I thought I'd just start a new thread so no info. is missed.

Hi everyone, I'm new here So far I've had wonderful success seo wise and none of the updates (Penguin nor Panda) affected any sites, until this one.

For example, one site has 7 keywords I'm optimizing for. Out of those 7, all but 2 (and variations of the 2 - one word vs long-tail) completely tanked. These keywords were all on page 2/3. One of the two survivors never budged from page 2 (it's a brand keyword so I was very happy to finally get it to page 2)

Now when I check rankings, the other terms show up in the 200-400 spots, but NOT for the URL I was optimizing for (category page) but instead for random products in the category.

The only thing I've done differently with the 2 keywords that are still doing well, was focus - we did more link-building for those, but not an extreme amount. Never over-optimize.

My question is, how did 2 survive and 5 are still floating up and down. Last night I saw one go up 122 spots, now today down 14. I'm really struggling with this.

I just ran another diagnostic crawl here and the report found 0 errors and 0 warnings. I checked category content with a plagiarism checker and found some external duplicate content which I've already taken care of.

No critical warnings/messages in WMT either. I'm stumped

Thank you for any help.

i just ran a diagnostic - no errors, no duplicate content, nothing..

I just did a quick check right now with a free plagiarism checker. When I get the return I see some outside blog posts using the same text - not 100% though.

Just wondering if having these removed will alleviate the situation or if I need to do more?

Thank you!

I am finding duplicate content category pages and then a blog article with the same content. Will having the blog article removed fix this or does the content on the category need to be re-written?

Hi everyone, I'm new here So far I've had wonderful success seo wise and none of the updates (Penguin nor Panda) affected any sites, until this one.

For example, one site has 7 keywords I'm optimizing for. Out of those 7, all but 2 (and variations of the 2 - one word vs long-tail) completely tanked. These keywords were all on page 2/3. One of the two survivors never budged from page 2 (it's a brand keyword so I was sooo happy to finally get it to page 2)

Now when I check rankings, the other terms show up in the 200-400 spots, but NOT for the URL I was optimizing for (category page) but instead for random products in the category.

The only thing I've done differently with the 2 keywords that are still doing well, was focus - we did more link-building for those, but not an extreme amount. Never over-optimize.

My question is, how did 2 survive and 5 are still floating up and down. Last night I saw one go up 122 spots, now today down 14. I'm really struggling with this.

Thank you