Just to put your mind at ease, our brand see's a similar CTR but I have put below some considerations.

• With Google Privacy settings and the emergence of "None" it might be possible that Google registers the impression but counts the click as "none" - very unlikely.
• Do you run paid adverts on your brand? Is it possible people could be clicking these? Factor this in when considering the overall CTR.
• You said Google Maps is on the right - if your brand is a restaurant /venue/shop it's possible they click that result and go to Google Maps, and still find what they are looking for.
• Is your brand name unique - if other companies have it, people may see the results and decide thats not what they are looking for?
• Could your brand name be confused with other products?
• Are other people bidding on your brand name.
• Is your Meta Descritpion fully optimised? This is basically a written advert for your site. Is it as optimised as can be? Is there a call to action.

I'll think of more but lots to think about.

I'm going to agree with the Noisey Little Monkey and Andy,

I answered a question similar to this a while back - check it out

The summary - Rand did a great article on this a while back- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unders...

There are also multiple other questions of a similar nature.

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/searc...

General consensus is be sub-folder over sub-domain.

Main reason - Sub Folders get the benefits from the root domain, Sub Domains don't.

Here's the key take away from Rands article:

"1 subdomain under 1 root domain (but feel free to use subfolders as it makes sense). Starting a blog? I almost always recommend yoursite.com/blog over blog.yoursite.com. Want to launch a new section of content? Use yoursite.com/newstuff rather than newstuff.yoursite.com."

Hopefully this will have helped you make your mind up.

Thanks for responding guys....

After some back and forth and research from the Web Dev team, turns out our hosts messed up when upgrading RAM to our host server.....site was down for 3 hours overnight.

All appears to be fine now but will keep my eyes peeled.

Thanks

Good Morning/Evening Mozzers,

I arrive at work this morning with 5 emails from GWT for my separate domains reading,

**"Googlebot can't access your site - **Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 39 errors while attempting to connect to your site. Your site's overall connection failure rate is 15.1%."

I have passed this on to the Web Dev team to resolve ASAP.

My Question, will server connectivity issues harm my rankings? Is there a danger if this continues that URL's could be de-indexed?

Input would be greatly appreciated.

Are mechanical turks easy to use?

Any comments?

I'm going to agree with the Noisey Little Monkey and Andy,

I answered a question similar to this a while back - check it out

The summary - Rand did a great article on this a while back- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unders...

There are also multiple other questions of a similar nature.

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/searc...

General consensus is be sub-folder over sub-domain.

Main reason - Sub Folders get the benefits from the root domain, Sub Domains don't.

Here's the key take away from Rands article:

"1 subdomain under 1 root domain (but feel free to use subfolders as it makes sense). Starting a blog? I almost always recommend yoursite.com/blog over blog.yoursite.com. Want to launch a new section of content? Use yoursite.com/newstuff rather than newstuff.yoursite.com."

Hopefully this will have helped you make your mind up.