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I agree do 301 to each page and get people to the new site.

Overtime they will learn the new site domain and you will gain new links to the new site.

I just did the same thing and merged an older well ranking site into a new site a year ago, & did a bunch of 301 redirects from good high ranked pages and then I also did full global 301 from several smaller sites to the new site.

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Start here:

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank

These will give you tons of help in how to start ranking keywords.

Once you understand and implement this research/ideas/concepts.

THEN, keep track of what is working and do more of that.

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Did they change a title of a single web page?

Or

Did they dedicate a whole website to the title of a product?

Some niche markets are very narrow and you WILL have matching phrases and titles and even products, if you run into that you just have to stay ahead of the curve and keep your site above theirs.

Also if you are selling a product, service, then make sure your website is dedicated to getting a better conversion for your clients.

People copy for lots of reasons:

1. They have the same idea and geographical region, or the same name.

2. They want to get an edge on a competitor.

3. They want to get hits on the keywords maybe for a different reason,

(http://moz.com/blog/barnacle-seo-whiteboard-friday)

If you're dedicated to your niche market, then keep the name and keep your site/media/web presence above theirs.

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Videos are pretty new to Facebook.

We also know that Facebook does NOT show everything to all people, even if you engage and follow a page.

There is some sort of algo that hides posts and only shows to certain fans.

I would say that Facebook is deliberately throttling back on the videos more than regular posts.

This is an answer about Tumblr posts not showing up, and the answer might apply to Youtube as well.

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/28208/tumblr-items-published-from-queue-do-not-show-in-facebook-timeline-only-those

Facebook wants to keep the "facebook content" and is hiding linked content.

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I saw that video, yes it is a good one.

Interesting theory about the new "spam search queries" I can see that might be an issue with some sites, I'm not sure it is with mine.

There is something called "pink filter" that I have heard of that if google determines your website to be porn, it will not allow it when safesearch is on.

According to theory if I have not been hit by the "pink filter" I am not labeled porn and should not have my rankings dropped. It does look like Google is changing, I'll keep this in mind.

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Geek away....

If this was a simple problem with one simple answer I would have fixed it 4 months ago

I've had lots of suggestions and lots of bits of help.

I'm always glad for more, if your suggestion does not work, someone will pipe in and we all learn from it.

Here is another thread that has more data too to help you out.

http://moz.com/community/q/web-traffic-tanked-not-penguin-nor-panda-i-am-stumped

What do you see?

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Fascinating theory, but this has been a slow steady decline since March.

Not an instant drop.

Here is an awesome graph of Jan to now.

http://www.bayareaboudoir.com/capture2.jpg

I erased all my stats Jan 1st from previous years.

But they had been slowly climbing.

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This is am amazing detailed answer.

I went through and removed links to the inisignicfia blog entirely.

I found some forums I had a signature and removed the sig those on three forums.

I took down my entire tumblr.

I did a disavow on several domains & subdomanins that "collect" links.

Total of over 500 individual links have been removed via webmaster, signature removal, & disavowal tool.

I changed/removed anchor text/links on a few other older blogs/forums.

Get listed has me as two business, I'll update those so they all match.

Citation finder looks amazing I'll dig deeper after lunch.

I just added/fixed:

Nokia, teleatlas, navteq information

I will work on more reviews, (reviews for my clients are a bit tricky due to the nature of my business, but I can get some from my more public clients.)

Here is the rel canonical, Is it set up wrong?

http://www.bayareaboudoir.com/capture.jpg

I fixed the home page anchor text, I'll work on a "logo"

I'm not extra concerned about Oakland specific traffic, as my clients come to me from 25 - 200 miles away. I do like the SF page idea...

I'll revamp my meta descriptions.

your site loads at non-www (bayareaboudoir.com) - this should redirect to www version.
not a huge issue, but /index.html should redirect to the main homepage.

I'm a little stumped on exactly how to code these?

Thanks again

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Update:

I just went through and fixed the last of the 404 errors with 301.

I also changed the internal linking structure to have more links going to the home page and not to the contact page.

I hope this helps.

www.bayareaboudoir.com

I'd love some more input on this issue.

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Still dealing with the weird traffic drop on my website.

I have removed a bunch of old links from a defunct blog, 301 thin pages, added text to remaining pages.

I'm still stumped.

So awhile ago I freshened up my website and thought I was "helping people" by making sure they could CONTACT the studio more easily... I added more links to the "contact page" I thought this would help conversions...This changed the number of links to my entire site....Would this be the problem with my ranking/traffic drop?

http://bayareaboudoir.com/babinternal1.pdf

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