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i have 2 ecommerce sites with 2 separate blogs, I m planning to redirect-301 one of the sites to the other. I want to move the blog content from the older site to the other site. Can just copy the content to the new site and combine with the existing blog content.?

I would appreciate any suggestions on this topic.

thank you

nick

Dear Dana,

Thank you for your reply. Basically the keyword phrase traffic is going down, our high ranking keywords are not ranking any longer, 2 or 3 phrase keywords have lost ranks one by one, dropped from 1st page positions to 2nd, 3rd and 4th page positions within this year. they were the main source of traffic and conversions for a long time (past 4 years) . they are still ranking on those 3rd and 4th pages but not getting any traffic through them anymore. We had quite a few of those high traffic / high volume keywords ranking top 10 positions and now we have only few left on top 10.

If you would please help us understand and guide us in the right direction on how to get those keywords and phrases ranking on top again and also rank for other keywords in our industry. We are actually looking for a professional help such as yourself who could work with us and help us recover our traffic.

Thank you

Hi, my ecommerce site has been losing organic traffic/ranks for the past 12 months. I don't have any active seo campaigns. after using link detox tool and submitting a disavow file for low quality links to google about 8 months ago, site has picked up some traffic may be about 10% but after few months it started to lose traffic again. there is no manual penalty on site. I would appreciate any and all suggestions at this point to help gain some traffic/traction. Anything that would point us in the right direction would be very helpful.

here is my url http://goo.gl/udynRR

thank you

nick

Hi Keri,

thank you for your reply. We do have about 35K products online. all lighting and decor items. The site is an old site from 2008.

We dont have time for DIY, we are looking for an SEO with experience in megento platform with multi store configuration who can guide us the right direction

thank you

nick

i have a pretty old ecommerce website for home decor products. It has been experiencing some rank loss in the past year. No manual penalty but algo rank losses. I need someone to fix seo related issues on my site. It runs on magento with multistore configuration.

please reply if you can offer any help

nick

Hi, my site is a fairly new site, by doing the disavow in a early stage, google wont think that it has a penalty or something right ?

nick

Thank you very much. I will do the disavow. Appreciate your reply.

nick

Hi, in the past few weeks 100's of .info links appeared in WMT pointing to my site. Should I be worried about these links ? What can I do to block them ?

Thanks

nick

[edited for proper category - Keri]

what is the % relation in between a keyword in title and that given keyword's synonyms in a content of that page?

if i use the keyword "apple pie" on a page title once, what should be % of reappearance of this keyword in the content ? and its synonyms in relation to the entire content on that page.

thank you

hi,

there are thousands of ecommerce sites with over 200 or 300 links on their home page and they perform pretty well with no fluctuations in their traffic throughout years.

Just a thought.

Hi,

our ecommerce link penalty was revoked by google back in Feb 26th 2013, but to this day we have not seen any improvement on our rankings. Due to 80% revenue loss we had to layoff quite a few people to stay alive. Situation now is more dire then ever for our company. We have millions of dollars invested in our business and google just busted it for some "low quality" or "spammy links" as they call it. We want to try to move to a different domain and do a 301 from the old domain to make sure our previous customers can still find us as a last effort to stay alive. But doing so we do not want to the bad links juice to flow to our new domain. Can we do a 301 with nofollow and will that have any negative impact or any impact at all.? any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Nick

We are planning on moving to a different domain after 10 years, and laying off bunch of people due to loss of revenue.

one more thing, if you are a brand name and you have sold products under that brand for decades, it is not that simple to start a new brand and re introduce it to the market. Sites do recover. after the manual penalty removed, it is all algo, you need to it the right way.

Hi sbrault74 - sites do recover from google updates, we've recovered from a manual link spam penalty  in Feb 26 2013 after 5 months. So yes, if you clean up the bad stuff , you will recover.

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your reply, We had a link spam penalty back in September, but it was revoked several months back. During penalty we lost organic traffic, but since the penalty was removed we haven't seen any improvement to our traffic. Couple people said that we are probably suffering from algo updates like panda. We have got pretty powerful links, updated the content, site structure, removed pages that had similar content or merge them. But still no change in organic traffic. SO I m trying to understand where the problem is , are panda updates the reason for the site not performing well.

I would appreciate any suggestions to improve my site.

Thank you

nick

Hi ,

I m looking for suggestions for my website i believe is suffering from the panda updates. Can someone point out what possible issues within the site that might be causing with recent panda updates?

here is the link http://goo.gl/St3aP

thanks nick.

hi thanks for your reply, so, since the penalty was revoked on the first site, it is ok to do 301?

301 will not transfer anything negative to the other site right ? last question, will the high quality links to the first site that i got in the pas few week pass any juice to the second site ?

thank you

Hi,

I m having a difficult time deciding what steps to take next, about my marketing strategy. I have 2 e-commerce sites for more than 7 years, one of them got a google link penalty back in september 2012 and lost 80% of organic traffic. I have worked on the bad links, got some of them removed and others disavowed. After 5 months of hard work and getting high quality links from authority sites related in my industry, I received a message from google saying that the manual spam penalty was revoked. This was in feb 26th. Since then I have got couple more high quality links and content to the site, but the organic traffic is still how it was prior to penalty revoked (at 20%). I still have no revenue from this site and i don't see what else I can do or how long I should work on it to see some improvement on traffic. My other site on the other hand is doing just fine but has some conversion issues. I m thinking of dropping all seo related activities for my first site and focus on the second one to see if we can have some increase on the organic traffic of that site. If I was to do a 301 redirect from my first site to the second one, what kind of effect will this have on the second site, would that be a negative or positive impact in terms of traffic? also thinking of moving the site from x-cart platform to magento. I appreciate any advice i can get here.

Thank you

Nick

hi,

some pages of my website showing keywords attached in google as part of page title, but the title doesn't have that keyword in it.  So basically when you search for "keyword (1)" , page ranks for the keyword with this title

<address>Keyword (1) + keyword (2)</address>

<address>but the keyword (2) is not part of the title, but shows there in google's index.</address>

<address> </address>

<address>keyword (2) is </address>

<address>can anyone help us understand why this is happening ?</address>

<address>I 'd appreciate any help.</address>

<address> </address>

<address>thanks </address>

<address>nick</address>

When i search for a very competitve keyword on  a smart phone , my site ranks #6 but on laptop or desktop ranks #24. I do not have a mobile verison of my site just to clarify it. I have cleared the cache on my mobile and laptop. still the same.

What is the reason for this?, I d appreciate an insight on this thanks.

Nick

I like this answer very much.

i hope you are right and i will go to work to get more good stuff.

cheers !

nick

Hi,

We had lost rankings for certain keywords completely from google's index about 5 months ago. Recently the rank for the keyword reappeared on google. But it keeps moving up and down. One day on 26th position, next day it is on 45th position, then it comes back to 30th position. This has been going on for over a week now. What is the cause of this ? can someone shed some light on it ?

Thank you

If you were "GOOGLE" would you have 3rd party factors as part of your ranking algo ? I wouldn't.

I wouldn't want my business success to depend on 3rd party performance in this case "facebook"

What happens to google algo, if all of a sudden one day there is no facebook. ? or facebook changes the way they do business, who follows who here?

Just sayin !

cheers,

Our ecommerce site recovered from a manual link spam penalty about a month ago, but the organic traffic is still very low. We are working on getting high quality links and high quality content for our site. Some people are saying that even if you recover from the penalty and build high quality links, etc.. the site will never recover. Is this true?, we are very discouraged by what others are telling us. ?

I d appreciate any help or suggestion we can get here.

Thank you.

I also agree with highland, you have to submit a file that shows all your work.

We have recovered from a manual link spam penalty about 2 weeks ago after 5 months of cleaning up stuff. I have cleaned about 85% of the links and submitted a recon. and 3 days later i got a message that said the MANUAL penalty was revoked.

Even though it s been 2 weeks we still have not seen any improvement on the rankings. We are now working on getting quality links .

I felt the same way back in January but kept at it. So clean up more if you can and give it another shot.

good luck I feel your pain.

Nick

Ok here is my url goo.gl/Ai17f we have tons of products, some with long descriptions some with short. Categories have some content in them and we also have videos, brands, articles section and a blog. I m suffering from google's algo changes in 2012. We received a link penalty in sept 29th and since then have cleaned up our link portfolio got rid of thousands of links, used the disavow tool and working on new links. We are trying to get back on the right track here. I have fired everyone who worked on this site for the past 3 - 4 years. I m now trying to fix all the issue by myself. I would appreciate if you could guide me in the right direction with any advice.

thank you

Yes it is a learning process here. I come here sometimes and read threads hoping to learn some stuff and get advice. But some of the answers are short of helping the individual find the right direction, cause not all of us are seo or into these subjects as deep as some others. Which is better in your opinion a short but to the point paragraph, or longer but more generic content about whatever product you are selling in google's mind ? is having a short paragraph considered "thin" ? is having lots of content considered crowded, too much stuff, or confusing for Jane in Nebraska ? I guess the question is do you have a recipe for what is the right amount ? or do you know someone who  knows.

@EGOL

I thought that's what I was doing since this is the joint for SEO people who know this kind of stuff. This answer definitely makes me want to come back here for more great advice.

thank you anyways

nick

I m looking for someone who can review my site and let me about quality of content on my site. Can anyone suggest / know who I can talk to about this ?

Nick

can disavowing links cause deindexing from google ? we had about 2.5M pages indexed until dec 30th , since then it s dropped to about 600K

We received a unnatural link warning in july, got hit in september, since then we are suffering substantially in ranks and also in business revenue.

We've used the disavow tool, and also got tons of links removed within the past 3 , 4 months. Since october we havent got any response from google about what is going on despite sending another recon in Nov 2012. Now the site is getting deindexed.

what should we do at this point? Any help is greatly appreciated.

here is the url http://goo.gl/Ai17f

Thank you

nick

thank you Casey , great help.

hi

can someone guide me the right direction for guest blogging ? i m looking for quality blog sites that allow guest blogging especially for ecommerce related sites.

Thank you

Nick

hello Ryan,

How would i reach you other than this forum? i think i sent the previous reply to the wrong post.

hi i would be interested in talking to you about link building.

how would i reach you ? other this forum

hi thank you for your reply. I went to this web site www.vitopian.com but did not find

anything on it site is not showing any info.

I will check with the others soon.

nick

Hi we are hurt by many seo companies in the past who build bad quality links, and we got hit with a link penalty. Can someone refer me to a good decent SEO firm please ?

nick

hi,

We have several ecommerce sites and we cross linked 3 of them by mistake. We realize that the sites were linked through WMT,  We have shut down 2 of the sites about 2 months ago, but WMT still shows the links coming from those 2 sites. how do we make sure that google will see the sites are shut down. Is there a better of way resolving this issue. We are no longer using those sites, so do not need them to be active. whats the best solution to show google that the links are no longer there. Crawler shows that it was able to crawl the site 45 days after it is shut down.

thanks

nick

I have been reading a lot about bad links and unnatural links on these forums, but i m not sure how a good back link portfolio looks like, can some point me to the right direction ? maybe with some examples,

what is the one most important factor for a good quality link ?

thanks

thank you so much.

should I put it on Google docs or put it on Dropbox and share the file/link?

we have already sent the disavow links last month, but they did not accept it, adn said to look for more links. so we have done so. this is to show them that we are trying to clean this up.

Hi,

I took your advice and worked on the link clean up.

i managed to got some links removed, and contacted lots of webmaster to clean up my link profile. I have a large xls file to send to google for them to see that we have done a lot to clean up the bad links. How would i show this file to google? is there a place where I can post it? or email ?

thank you

i have removed lots of links and contacted lots of webmaster to clean up my link profile. I have a large xls file to send to google for them to see that we have done a lot to clean up the bad links. How would i show this file to google? is there a place where I can post it? or email ?

thank you

nick

Hi There, We were just using one server for both Mysql & httpd server. The server's IP address was 207.36.90.69. Time to time the server couldn't handle the requests so we decided to get new servers in order to handle them. When i talk to my system engineer and software developer about this, they've suggested clustering our site http://goo.gl/ITNqs. So we moved our site http://goo.gl/ITNqs to the server (216.87.165.21) but we kept the old machine 207.36.90.69 to use as MySQL server and deleted all HTTP related files last year. Somehow google indexed 80K unnatural links from this old IP 207.36.90.69. We have received an unnatural links warning back in august and got a link related penalty on sept 28th. Our webmaster tools are showing that we have 80,000 link pointing to our site from the old server with only mysql on it. Can someone help us understand how google crawler indexed an IP with no http related files on it for almost a year, 10 months to be exact. Thank you

thank you for your reply. WMT shows 142,000 links to my site, and opensiteexplorer shows 12,000. What is the difference in between opensiteexplorer and WMT. BTW I m not an seo, i m just trying to figure out what's wrong with my site.

thank you

WMT shows only top 1000 domains that have links to my site. Where or how I can see the total number of domains or links pointing to my site ?

Thank you