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I checked my MOZ account last week to find that my site's Mobile Search Visibility has dropped pretty significantly 4 weeks after an algorithm update.  It has ticked back up some but after weeks and weeks of steady position, it fell. I thought the latest update had affected the visibility but I'm not sure that is the case.

One of our competitors ironically jumped UP in Mobile Visibility about as equally as my site has fallen.  I've attached a screenshot of the MSV graph. My site is plotted in BLUE and our competition is plotted in PURPLE.

Does anyone have a  explanation or potential reason?

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My company is joining an Industrial Association. Part of the membership is a link to our site from theirs. I've found that going to their site triggers a "threat alert" through our company malware detection system and shows a link that may be infected with malware. With all of that said I have (2) questions...

1. Since this is a paid membership, will Google penalize us for having a link to our company from this association's website?

2. Since a link on their site has potential malware issues, should we add our link to their site or could it be harmful to us?

Any helpful advice is appreciated.

@Jane,

Apologies for not replying (2 years) earlier.The project got delayed an other priorities took over.

I was thinking of translating via a plugin but preparing to eventually translate by hand because our industry has some very unusual technical jargon. Hopefully soon this project will progress soon.

Thank you for your response!

I have an English wordpress site that I'd like to duplicate and translate in Spanish...does anyone recommend using a subdomain (espanol.xyz.com) or something like a .com/es/ format? I'm also interested in any SEO issues that might arise and want to keep SEO in mind while building this segment of the site. Any other tips or things to think of?

The re-directs may have been the issue...will report back when I can see a trend. Thanks for the help!

I did make the mistake of not re-directing...and just fixed and are looking at the results. The majority of decline was in Google but didn't seem to be a huge ranking loss...hoping I may have just fixed it with re-directs but still too early to tell. Thanks for the input. Will report back soon.

That may have helped. We changed some of the page names to more relevant and descriptive pagenames. Alot of our landing pages are 404 when I look at the Direct Traffic now. Would that trigger a Direct Traffic hit somehow? Those should still be referrals from old links...right? Even then, the 404 direct hits don't make up for the difference. Direct traffic for the homepage is up significantly too.

the theme is called iBuze and it was developed by Goodlayers. Pretty sure it's clean. Haven't seen any hidden links. Where would you typically look?

Hmmm....looking at it in Analytics, it seems to be about normal. Obviously the lower the better but what is a good site speed?

I recently switched our company's website over to Wordpress in February. Organic traffic went down....

http://www.screencast.com/t/dJ0Oeyma5Xs

Same content, there are a few different page URLs but most of all it is all the same and I've SEO'd it to pieces.

Any thoughts? I can't figure this one out.

Is this consistent with scrapers and feed grabbers? I launched the site in mid february. The direct traffic didn't really kick in until a month or two after. The previous site was a straight .HTML site that I built. The new one is a WordPress site.

http://www.screencast.com/t/ETME6FbDhvz

I would like to think that the traffic is good. But if it is effecting the security or organic traffic in any way, I need to fix it. My organic traffic started to sink after the WordPress switch as well.

http://www.screencast.com/t/dJ0Oeyma5Xs

Any thoughts are appreciated.

In February, I transferred an HTML site to a WordPress Platform. Since then, Direct traffic has spiked to nearly 400% since the WordPress transition. The Direct traffic spike took roughly 2 months before it started to kick in. Does anyone know what this could be attributed to?