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Hi Guys,

I was listening to the over optimization penalty Matt Cutts was talking about at SXSW over at Search Engine Land.

http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%E2%80%99s-working-on-an-%E2%80%9Cover-optimization%E2%80%9D-penalty-for-that-115627#

Looking at my on-page reports through SEOMOZ I have A report cards for each page, will we be OK or do we need to take a look?

Thanks,

Scott

Howdy! Are you using any plugins to control your tag descriptions? Scott

Hi Guys,

Were wondering what to do about our main domain name, we were ranking quite high for our main keyword and before Christmas our site dropped to 10th and we have been there for a while - last week our site dropped again onto the second page.

The worrying thing is now our main domain name is now ranking 1 place above another domain name that we don't really use but its an exact match domain name for our target keyword. This exact match domain has hardly any links pointing to it and it currently has a 22 domain authority.

We are wondering if we 301 our main site to this exact match domain would it rank higher than the top of the 2nd page where we are now for our main domain.

Cheers.

When I say they are the same template, here is an example:

http://goo.gl/PzoHO

http://goo.gl/6z5hJ

Let me know what you think of the above.

Great reply Don!

The main reason to ask the question really is for general knowledge.

Our main site was hit pretty hard in the penguin update back in April and we have been removing links and completing overhauling our website to try and get out of the penalty.

We / I was just checking this couldn't be effecting the panda update neither.

We are thinking of targeting the models slightly more though like "bwm 3 series warranty"

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