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eyepaq,

Thanks a lot for your time on studying my site and for your input on this matter.

I have never received a message from Google about spam issues on this site and I just checked the "manual" section and it's empty. I'm afraid it could have been hacked as you stated above, I will need to audit all my link profile.

Cheers

eyepaq,

Thanks for the tip, I am leaving some information plus the URL for anybody to comment and advice on it but if any of you guys know of a good SEO company please share.

URL: www.woodlandsnewhomes.com

Look at image attached, it is a screenshot from Google Analytics, it took a hit on July 5, 2012 and since then traffic dropped by 54%.

This site was getting 700 to 800 organic visits per day and on July 5, 2012 dropped to 419 but kept dropping and now the site averages 220 to 300 visits per day.

Cheers

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I am looking to have an SEO specialist to audit and do consultation on one of my sites. This website never received a penalty from Google but was hit algorithmically and I need to bring it back up strong on the serps.

Who do you recommend from the "recommended list" from MOZ?

Cheers

Michael,

Yes, that's what I have in mind, maybe I didn't explain it well but that exactly the idea ...I am just not so sure how to 301 redirect the main domain, I will discuss with my programmer the code you provided on your answer.

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I am merging 11 real estate community sites into 1 regional site and don't really know what type of redirect should I use for the homepage?, for instance:

www.homepage.com redirect to www.regionalsite.com/community-page

Should I 301 this redirect? If yes, how could I 301 redirect a homepage to an internal page in my new site?

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Hopefully it is the first option ...thanks for your input!

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To maintain a clean profile.

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Hello,

I don't quite understand your question, if you are adding more category pages, you should have more pages instead of less, just make sure to 301 redirect every single old page and you shouldn't have a problem.

I had to do something similar to one of my sites like 3 months ago and I did loose pagerank on some pages but ranking got better so I wouldn't worry much about pagerank.

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Hello,

I've been working on removing some sitewide links and some directory links and I would like to know what to expect to see on my rankings based on your own experience if you've dealt with this before.

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I'm a little confused about c-blocks, I've been reading about them but I still don't get it.

1. Are these similar to sitewide links?
2. do they have to come from websites that I own and hosted in the same ip?
3. and finally, what's better ...more or less linking c-blocks?

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I use Chrome in "incognito mode", it works okay.

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Cody, what you explained is kind of similar to my situation, the 11 sites I have are all Real Estate sites and they contain different "area" information (because they cover different geographic areas) but they share the same database of properties for sale.

We do have set different search results pages to avoid showing the same properties on every site, but, there is a link to similar properties on each property page which eventually the crawler ends up indexing all properties within the database so when you mention ..."every site had the same products"... this could be a similar situation.

As of now, I am waiting to see what happens next with my rankings, I guess I am a little lost on how long will it take until some signals are reflected on the serps, any idea?

Cheers and thanks a lot for writing about your experience with this.

Moosa,

Yes, the first thing I did was to remove all these links ...as of now, I am going through all my external links and cleaning some directory links that I had from many years ago which might seem spammy to penguin.

Really appreciate your comments, cheers

Michael, these links were on the footer of each site. I think I was hit algorithmically because I haven't received any message from Google but like I said, my organic visits are down by 43% compared to last year.

Thanks a lot for your input, cheers

I've got 4 sites in my Moz account but I haven't received duplicate emails, so all good on my end.

Cheers

I have 11 real estate sites and have had links from one to another for about 7 years but someone just suggested me to take them all out because I might get penalized or affected by penguin.

My main site was affected on July of 2012 and organic visits have dropped 43%...I've been working on many aspects of my SEO but it's been difficult to come back.

Any suggestions are very welcome, thanks