THanks! Any idea of smaller companies that can just preform the initial review? Or is everything like taking on new clients as I am not as interested in that.

I am looking for a company or person that can do an look over of the site and then give me the ideas they think are most impacting SEO.

Does anyone have suggestions on places that provide in depth site / analytics reviews for SEO?

Yes, the drops were in organic search.

We kept the URLs the same as the previous version of the site to avoid any problems, and no existing content was removed.

Is it common for a site to see slight traffic drops after a site redesign (containing cleaner code, more usability and basically just being more helpful for the end user)?  A new site of ours went live last Wednesday and has experienced a drop in traffic.

If you have seen this in your own site, how did you recover? And how long did the recovery take?

Thanks for the helpful advice!

I have read that loading images from a subdomain of your site instead of the main domain will give you speed benefits on load time. Has anyone actually seen that to be the case? Thanks!

I am working with a per page results refinement that stores a cookie on the users computer and then keeps that same per page as the user goes around the site. I was just wondering if that was true for Google bot or Bing bot as well. Will they keep the cookie or would they not be able to accept it. I just want to know as I dont want different urls created if they can keep the cookie.

Thanks!

I ran into this same problem a little while ago.

First off if you have meta no index on them or block with robots.txt then it shouldn't be a big deal if they have duplicate metas or titles, but if you don't and Google simply hasn't indexed them then fixing it could be helpful. For this I have always tried to go by the rule of creating unique metas and titles in all situations. What I did was programatically have the page number auto added to the title at the end and the same with the meta.

Ex.

Title

Blue Widgets Page 2

Meta

Blue widgets are the best, buy them from us. Page 2

While this isnt exactly super helpful to the user it doesnt hurt either, and atleast it will help clear up duplicate meta and duplicate title problems which if you have on the Seomoz reports then you for sure have them in Google WMTs errors as well.

Hope this helps