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Hello thereIt has just been confirmed that my site is suffering for a Google Penality. The odd thing is that it is just for my set of key keywords and not the whole site.

It seems in 2010 that a rouge SEO company I used sent loads of spammy links but I have lots of other good links too.

What is your advice moving forward? Will it drop over time? Do I set up a new site (this has been established over 10 years) or try and get better quality links to compensate for the spam ones?

Thanks so much! Kindest regards

Victoria

Thanks Billy - I did it back at the beginning of the new year I would say. I will see if I can go through and do all the re-directs again. Thanks

Thanks for looking at this for me in such detail. I thought a 200 response meant everything was ok with the site?

Thanks for your time Matt - I can not find any 302's anywhere and only 301 and when I do a redirect check on http://www.webtoolhub.com/tn561352-url-redirection-checker.aspx it comes back as 301.

If it is 301 is it ok or can you show me how to see the 302?

HI there,

I was worried that my folder was not being crawled as when I searched for site:www.thekeepsakeco.co.uk/marketplace nothing came up but today I tried site:thekeepsakeco.co.uk/marketplace it does. So it is forwarding the www to the non www. When I do a search on links or analyse the domain it says there is a forwarder in place.

My site used to dominate in my niche and now is not doing very well since I moved to the new site. I know I did not handle the move well but wonder what I can do about it and wonder if this redirect is causing issues. So any link building it probably going to www. rather than non www so does that mean they are not counting.

What would you do? move everything back to www and could I do a 301 redirect for the whole folder?

Any help greatly received!

Kindest regards

Victoria

Thanks

Victoria

Hi there

I have lost a whole directory in Google rankings and this is where my traffic was coming from. Do you know why this would happen? It is the eCommerce part of the site.

So if I do site:www.domain.com the site is there and then site:www.domain.com/directory is not there any more.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks so much for your feedback and insight. What I was thinking was that we would pull it in as being all about mums and their chosen topic. So not that different than About.com or wordpress.com where everyone blogs/talks on the same platform but all separately but I pull in the most commented/popular topics on the home page like a 'what's hot' sort of feature. Perhaps have a directory on all the different topics but everyone markets their own separate blog.

So my options are:

• set up people with their own domain or
• have mumbloggers.com/blog1 (not calling it mumbloggers but using it as an example!)

So really focusing on mums with a passion and interlinking them all if appropriate.

If there is not much benefit from having it all on the same domain then I guess separate will be the way to go but am picking up that if I can get the above 'shared' domain to work then it would be far more powerful?

Does that make more sense?

Thanks so much

Thanks Andy. I want to show them that they can set up a blog and earn money through affiliate opportunities and Joint Ventures so help them from beginning to end.

Some will want to sell etc. I was going to set up wordpress multisite.

Hi there,

I am taking a group of mums through how to set up a blog and how to build up traffic to that blog. Should I suggest that we all blog on the same domain so www.dsdsds.com/myblogname or get them to set up their own domains.

My aim is for everyone to support each other, share and link content so would it be more powerful if they were all on different domains or on the same one?

Would love some insight as it is something I just can not get my head around this part.

Thank you so very very much

Hello there

I am new here but really want to mend my broken website by myself as I enjoy a challenge!

I used to have great rankings but have moved websites a few times (same domain) and the last move was to wordpress. I now have loads of broken links in the SERPS and wondered if there was an easy way to flush google of them as they are getting lots of 404 errors? They really are too many to do a 301 on (I have done the main pages)

Also how do I do a crawl of my website for any internal broken links? Does SEOmoz have something or is there an external program you would recommend?

Thanks

Victoria