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Thanks so much for the response Ryan.  Lots of good advice.  His problem/opportunity isn't just changing architecture, unfortunately.  If his site were already "hosted" at the main domain, then I wouldn't be afraid of him dropping from the rankings.  But it seems that the search engines are recognizing the site.squarespace.com domain instead of the site.com domain that it is supposed to redirect to.

My sense is that the right thing for him to do long-term is to fix it, and make the necessary improvements to regain the position.  It can't be good for potential customers to see the site.squarespace.com result in the serp's instead of his actual domain.

I have a friend who has a squarespace site that is giving him lots of trouble.  For one, even though it is supposed to redirect to GreenSpaceConstruct.com...Bing and Yahoo don't seem to recognize this domain.  Instead, they show greenlightconstruct.squarespace.com in the serp's.  Oddly, Google shows the site as GreenSpaceConstruct.com.

The site is ranking well for some terms.  I'm afraid that converting to wordpress will hurt his rankings in the short term.  If bing and yahoo are crawling this squarespace domain, and he moves it...is there a way not to just completely lose the rankings?

Thanks for any thoughts.  Much appreciated!

Josh

Thanks very much, this is helpful.  I've seen keyword research reports before that had a very graphical format, clearly generated from software and not excel.  Possibly market samurai?

I'd like to provide a keyword research report to a client, that includes all of the keywords we're targeting, organized nicely along with relevant data for each (keyword difficulty, search volume, etc.).  Is there a way to do this other than running an individual report for each keyword?  I'd like to avoid sending them a 50 page document showing all of the keyword research

Thanks for any help!

Josh