Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi does any one know of a good seo company that will get results, i.e., fix site issues and get the site improving in the serps.

Thanks LindaLV, not sure what to do now, it's all gone rather confusing..

Hi LindaLV, The site used to get a lot of traffic from the USA during the (UK night time). So I was wondering if geotaging the site for the UK is not a good idea? What do you think

Hi Denverish, thanks for your reply, been months since i looked at this problem. It has returned so trying to sort it out. the redirects mentioned did not work. so any suggestions.

The CMS allows for 301 redirects via a form; place old url at the top of the form and the new url at the bottom and save,

But as I am trying to create a wildcard 301 redirect, i am not sure what code to place in these fields..see pic

tai

MgrqdVB.png

Hi guys and thanks for getting back to me.

We are based in the UK.

We do have some paused ppc campaigns which we used to run from 9 am till midnight.

Could this really be a factor and if so is it best to delete old ppc campaigns.

Tai

Hi can any one tell me why traffic drops at the same time each day, at around midnight until 8.30 am website traffic drops off. We target the UK and the USA, we have geo target set for the UK in webmaster.

Thanks for your help

Thanks for your reply Chris661 and DennisSeymour. Where to turn that is the question. Its all rather confusing.

• in webmaster, my impressions went up considerably, then it went down .see pic http://i.imgur.com/NZnK7Vt.png

• We did not move to https.

• We did not do anything apart from removing some more links

• (Maybe check your htaccess/robots/were you hacked? Injected by an invisible code? Check Google cache) What should I look for for a hacked or injected code?

Yes we are using the universal code.

Thanks for your suggestions..

Taiger

Hi my site was doing ok, last week, humming along and increase in traffic. We felt that all the work removing bad links had worked. then all of a sudden, bang traffic dropped and is still dropping day by day.

The strange thing as well is all the social media, bing and yahoo traffic has also dried up!

Has anyone else had something smiler?

Thanks again Chris, I will take on board your advice and go through the disavow file.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your response. the question has been bothering me for a while and I wonder if there is anyone else who was advised to remove bad links even if one has not had a manual penalty, but may have seen a decline in traffic.

We saw a drop in traffic, but last week we removed all Google tracking analysis and reinstalled it, and bam the traffic that we thought we had lost was not so bad after all. (we are still monitoring this) Hence why I was wondering if we were to remove the disavow fill will Google see this a a negative.

What happens if one remove the disavow file from a site that has not received a manual penalty from Google. Although the site did suffer from a drop in traffic and rankings.

Hi Matt, sorry for the delay in getting back.

Just working on your suggestions, I will let you know if it works

T

Hi Matt,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^listing/(.*)$ http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/business/ [R=301,L]

Did not work,

other urls flagged up in Google WM are/deal/ new: /deals/

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/deal/location/uk-england/buckinghamshire-weddings/newport-beach

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/deals/

thanks Matt

Hi Matt, thanks again.

Yes we are trying to redirect old urls to the relevant pages.

As we have so many old urls from old cms system which had different url structures, to do a wildcard to catch all 404s would be great. (wordpress plugin wp redirection achieves this http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)

RedirectMatch 301 ^/listing/.*$ http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/business

But it did not redirect

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/location/uk-england/essex-weddings

Thanks for your time on this.

Regards Tai

Hi Matt, and thank you for your response.

Not sure if i understand the solution to this problem though. The http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/......./ are from old legacy urls, and we have many. I am not sure why google webmaster is still picking up these old urls. but having 8k old not found urls is a worry.

Regards Tai

Hi all I hope that someone can help....

How can I fix multiple 404 errors with Wildcard htaccess redirect

The url in question is:

How can I fix multiple 404 errors with Wildcard htaccess redirect

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/search/Category/luxury_hotels_venues_uk_wedding_venues/exclusive_use_venues/letter/c

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/location/uk-england/bedfordshire-weddings/franklin-park

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/deal/location/uk-england/chorley-weddings/curtis-bay

etc, going to http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/business

the above is just a few examples, google webmaster is showing over  8.000 404 page not found errors.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your responses Matt and Andy, very useful information and I will go into them deeper to workout what is going on with my site. 

It's interesting what Andy says about older sites getting hit the mosts as we are seeing new sites with high rankings, when in the "old days" it would take ages for these sites to rank for very competitive keywords.

We have not received a Google webmaster penalty, but have been hit by one of the black and white animals. We have disavowed many links and have seen some recovery, but need to see more progress.

I'll check out the links above and see if it will help in understand what to do.

Thanks again,

ps, if anyone has any more info, do let me know.

Tai

Which penalty is easier to fix, and how to go about it fixing the issues.