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Thanks, Lisa. Your alt tag comments make sense. We're going to make these changes site-wide.

Thanks, Jesse. We're looking into getting this non-www 301 issue addressed.

Thanks! We've looked into these companies and will be contacting a few.

Hi Moz Community -

Our website (www.motivators.com) experienced a small traffic drop in mid-March. This was followed by a steady decline in traffic through May, June and July. Please note that a site redesign went live on April 4th.

Starting in mid-July, we began implementing aggressive site improvements (mostly based upon site speed), but our traffic is still down.

Can anyone recommend a service or company that can look at our site and determine the root cause / more strategies for improvement?

Thanks for your suggestions!

We recently had a site-redesign and since have lost traffic. We’re currently trying to clean up our code and improve site speed (which we know has become a very big problem). One of the things we tested was removing the social side bar. With that gone, our page speed, file size and requests to the page all improved greatly. And other than the homepage, we don’t see a lot of action on the social side bar with our internal category and subcategory pages.

With side bar: http://www.motivators.com/

Without: http://www.motivators.com/Trade-Show-Giveaways.html

We resubmitted the Trade Show Giveaways page to Google Webaster Tools yesterday and saw a 22-spot jump in ranking by this morning!

Given the circumstances, would it be unwise for us to remove that social side bar? Would it hurt us to lose those signals in the long run despite the overnight jump? Which is the lesser of two evils?

Thank you, Bereijk and Thomas, for your responses!

We redesigned our site (www.motivators.com) back in April. Ever since then, we can't view the cache. It loads as a blank, white page but the cache text is at the top saying:

"This is Google's cache of http://www.motivators.com/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Jul 22, 2013 15:50:40 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more. Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘-F (Mac) and use the find bar."

Has anyone else ever seen this happen? Any ideas as to why it's happening? Could it be hurting us? Advice, tips, suggestions would be very much appreciated!

We have multiple domains on the same C Block IP Address. Our main site is an eCommerce site, and we have separate domains for each of the following: our company blog (and other niche blogs), forum site, articles site and corporate site. They are all on the same server and hosted by the same web-hosting company.

They all have unique and different content. Speaking strictly from a technical standpoint, could this be hurting us? Can you please make a recommendation for the best practices when it comes to multiple domains like these and having separate or the same IP Addresses?

Thank you!

It appears that our keyword rankings update weekly on Thursdays. Is this the same across the board or is there a way to manually run an update?

Is it better to optimize based on search volume or click through rate? For example:

If a keyword has a CTR of 19% and only 3,000 monthly searches, while another keyword that is relevant to that page has a CTR of 0.7% and 20,000 monthly searches, which keyword should that page be optimized for for better natural results and the bottom line?

Thanks, Lisa. Your alt tag comments make sense. We're going to make these changes site-wide.