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No, I didnt do URL mapping---I just imported it through squarespace and followed the instructions to do so and not even sure what you mean 100%.   I am just a beginner with all of this TBH although I've taught myself a fair bit on my own.

I'm stuck with the two different domains----long story but I'm in direct sales and our ecommerce portion of our site has to be on the scentsy sponsored website but we have no blogging, no personalisation options or opportunity to add any content whatsoever on the scentsy portion so thus the external site that links to it.  I know its not particularly SEO friendly to do it this way but my hands are tied.  The external site I try to integrate looks so its a bit more of a consistent experience and the blog helps me with content and keywords and at least attempts to be a bit of my own personal branding to differentiate between the bazillion other Scentsy sites there are.

Site map----I initially had an external one through https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but deleted it to try to save money and squarespace says they do their own site maps now so was trying theirs out.  Is the sitemap just a complete mess and should I return to the external sitemap?

Also my original question---why is it taking so long for my page juice to go through or is it because I've screwed up with something and these problems are there?

Sorry if I'm sounding like I dont know what I'm doing!!!! Thanks for your help!

Moved URL's from ldnwicklesscandles.com to ldnwicklesscandles.co.uk because I wanted to rank better for UK where I'm located and thought also the .co.uk for my competitors may have been giving them the advantage.

Use Squarespace 7 (transferred over from SS5)----they told me to set primary domain to .co.uk and I've done it.  I've also done a 301 redirect and done a change of address in webmaster tools although I'm not sure if all of this is needed?  Squarespace seem to think just setting the primary domain is enough.

My question is its been a couple of weeks, I've resubmited to Google webmaster to try to speed things up, the new URL is appearing in Google but none of my Page Juice seems to be transferring yet?  How long will it take?  I know not all the juice will move over but my PA/DA is non existent now and I have no idea if I'm just being impatient or I've done something wrong here.  Not a Pro, Just a small biz owner here so forgive me if this has been asked before.

Thank you for your kindness in your responses...I was a bit apprehensive about posting in here as I'm not a pro and you guys have taken the fear out of asking for help another time...so thank you.  You've all earned major brownie points in my book.

Despite feeling frustrated yesterday....feeling hopeful today and wanting to move forward and kick some butt in internet land.  Going to use this as an opportunity to learn as much as I can....to learn from mistakes and make a great site.

I'd rather not post the competitor links just in case they happen to actually be on here---really doubt they are but just being careful of mentioning them just in case....but my link is www.ldnwicklesscandles.com.  I did everything myself like most of us do with this particular business (I told ya I was small business!) ...just used a blogging platform--squarespace.  If you type in the main product name into google you'll see my top 3-5 competitors.  Yep have set up a campaign, attached google analytics and working through everything trying to fix things that it has flagged and whatnot and teaching myself everything its saying so I understand and can move forward.

EGOL----you mention a lot of your spammy links are gifts from blackhat....is there a way I can prevent this from happening to my site or is this unavoidable?

Thanks again guys for the responses.....some lovely people in here!

Hi...I'm new here....not a professional SEO at all....just been teaching myself as much as I can about SEO on my own as I'm a small business owner desperately trying to make something out of herself. Could use your thoughts on this...please forgive me if this isn't your usual type of question you get here:

so...I've been going through all the suggestions for on page optimisation and researching competitors links given through this lovely SEO Moz pro account .  One competitor in particular....has spammed A LOT of sites...I think she's hired some company to do it for her.  There's article submissions that don't even sound like they are written by someone who speaks English and very low quality sites for back links including some with adult content...however she's got thousands of these links so she ranks extremely high on all keywords.  All her pages have very high keyword density and could be accused of keyword stuffing big time.  I put her website through the SEOmoz grader....she's got a C and I've got an A.  She's completely catered her site to Google not the customer and its obvious.  But other competitors in my product have started doing the same thing as this gal and low and behold their sites are popping up in google searches also.

Beginning to feel frustrated with my hours of efforts and wondering how I can compete with people like this when I'm trying to be a good girl with Google and focus on creating a great site.  My hits per day are increasing slowly, my Alexa rank (hoping this matters) is improving rapidly and you can actually find me on the google search when I couldn't before (I'm page 10 now yay)  so I don't feel like a total failure but still am wondering if hitting page 1 for my keywords will happen this lifetime.

Why does Google seem to reward people who go against all these countless books and resources on SEO I'm reading?   Could use any thoughts/suggestions you might have on this matter.

Thanks for your help. x