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Thanks so much Ryan and Tim - Job sorted! You rock!!!

Thanks once again Ryan.  I will do as you suggest and fingers crossed Google will respond kindly.

Thanks Ryan.  I will run some more Tools as you suggest and I agree, the ranking drop is what concerns me most.  So grateful for your help and thank goodness this is happening now and not in November!

Hi Tim

Thanks so much for your help. We put 301s in place for our top 50 .com links when we went live. The assumption was that google would discover the others but Google hasn't so we are lodging the remaining 700 asap.  Both sites run the same content for identical products and info pages etc so yes my instinct tells me that could be the basis of our ranking drop.  There are no warnings in WMT and Analytics so far shows no drastic traffic decrease.  Fortunately its the depths of our low season here.

Hi Ryan

Thank you for this.  We use Moz to track link counts and we have been in decline on links since Mid to late March this year. Both domains seem to be behaving similarly. Our links are all from legit supplier partners and 23 years of web presence and 90% would be NZ based.  Is it possible that we are in free fall because we have both sites still running having not yet retired the .com?

Hi Back in December we shifted my web domain from a gourmetdirect.com to gourmetdirect.co.nz as part of a site-wide revamp.  Everything was going along fine until recently when my Linking domains plummeted and external links fell from 6000 approx to 600.  We still have the .com live for loads of disfunctional reasons.  Can anyone help?  I have gone from a top ranker to a no show and my contractors are all shaking their heads.

Hi, I;m wondering if it really does aid SEO or even hinder it now to have lists of top selling products as links on the base of each page.  This was recommended to us sometime ago by a consultant so we did it but is it outdated?  I'm concerned it may penalise our pages now by creating too many links?

opinions appreciated.  wwww.gourmetdirect.com and scroll down to see what I mean