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We used to be in the first page results for "thantakit international dental center", but now nowhere.  I've attached a screen cap of our issue with the robots.txt file showing up for the results as well.

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Mr. Rock,

First, thanks so much for helping me out.  This is my first question to seomoz and I'm an SEO newbie.  So far I'm amazed at how much people are willing to help and how quickly I'm getting answers.

I'm thinking of dumping our site map and just making our site more crawl-able in general.  5800 URLs does sound a bit steep...  I will look into Xenu.

As for the URLs, the url structure is like this:

/dentists/[country]/[city]/[clinic name]

so what you presented is rather normal, it just so happens that the clinic name is so generic, so it looks kind of funny.  Do you think there would be a better way to present the clinic landing page?  I chose this so that there was a standard hierarchy for drilling down into the clinic landing pages.

Again, that's a ton.  It is my #1 priority to tune the site for SEO right now and it looks like SEOmoz and its community t'll be a key tool in doing so.

no prob, phil.  I know I have a tendency to be a bit vague.

I have analytics set up and have attached a image of our impression drop over the past few months.  We pretty much don't exist on the web these days.

We used to be #1 for many of the clinic landing pages.  A search for "Sani Dental Group" would place us #1, now it is on page 15 or something.

Maybe we pissed off google?  We're working on updating our content and we need a marketing guy pretty badly so we can get our name out there, but I was hoping there were some things a lowly developer like myself could do in the in meantime.

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when you say "we have no links" are you saying throughout the site?  or other sites pointing to us?  (or both)

I can fix the internal links no problem.  I'm already working on a solution for that currently.  As for links to our site, that is always the toughest part, right?

the change happened last month as seen in the image.  I haven't been doing any link building yet, so I guess that's on my list of things to do.

no, we haven't changed our site location.

Duh, sorry guys:   dental departures

I've seen our SEO drop to more or less the bottom of the barrel, and I don't have any answers yet as to why.

SEOMoz is running it's crawl currently, and I have a few errors about duplicate titles and content, so I know I have some work cut out for me.   But, why the sudden drop?

The only change I made at the time was a change to our URL structure, but all links were 301'd to their new location.  Does this still hurt SEO that terribly?

Also, our robots.txt file is getting indexed and showing up as the first result at times.  Very embarrassing.  It's doing better than our other pages.    I don't get what's happening here.

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the change happened last month as seen in the image.  I haven't been doing any link building yet, so I guess that's on my list of things to do.

Mr. Rock,

First, thanks so much for helping me out.  This is my first question to seomoz and I'm an SEO newbie.  So far I'm amazed at how much people are willing to help and how quickly I'm getting answers.

I'm thinking of dumping our site map and just making our site more crawl-able in general.  5800 URLs does sound a bit steep...  I will look into Xenu.

As for the URLs, the url structure is like this:

/dentists/[country]/[city]/[clinic name]

so what you presented is rather normal, it just so happens that the clinic name is so generic, so it looks kind of funny.  Do you think there would be a better way to present the clinic landing page?  I chose this so that there was a standard hierarchy for drilling down into the clinic landing pages.

Again, that's a ton.  It is my #1 priority to tune the site for SEO right now and it looks like SEOmoz and its community t'll be a key tool in doing so.