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Thanks all. Sounds like a "yes" it is important. So i'll pay more attention to it.

We use an agency too. I'd definitely say avoid in that case and let the PRs do their job. But you could try talking to your agency about increasing your distribution, which might indirectly increase traffic? I'm doing something similar...

Hi all, I'm just wondering what people think of Google speed test. Do you take it seriously? My site is getting 40 mobile and 60 desktop. The main recomendations are browser caching, compression, minifying and server response time. I already pay attention to image compression as that seems a...

I'd say one link, probably on your brand name. However personally I wouldn't bother. We tried a service and all we got was a bunch of no-follow links. No traffic and it's helpfully skewed all our reporting as we got 100 odd links on one day. Do you use an agency or use your own distribution at...

We experienced something similar but it started in early September. However we're starting to see some recovery now. We dropped from pos 1-3 to top of page 2 at the worst. We're now top 4 for our 3 target keywords. Not perfect still but a lot better. I did a lot of technical stuff which I had...

Google has ditched our site completely for all our keywords. We were top 3 for for our top 3 keywords and now we're lagging near the bottom of page 1 and still falling. It's not having a dramatic effect on traffic as we get a lot of branded search visits but we're a niche B2B business which...

Thanks for all the advice. The site is mobile friendly (95+ on Google page test) so I don't think that's the problem. The landing pages don't really hold any insight either.

All noted. I can see the problem and it involves news pages. When they are created they produce 2 or 3 urls depending on what news categories they are listed under. I have a developer looking into this now so should be able to fix in a few days. Once fixed, what is the best way of letting Google...

Thanks validseo. Some observations: 1. Can pretty much rule this one out, as there's no correlation (according to panguin anyway) 2. "total indexed = 1,198" but I used Seo Spider to generate a new sitemap of 251 pages. So some disparity there. However I remember seeing this a long time ago and...

Thanks. I saw the August update but I would expect to see a more sudden dip than the long decline we're experiencing. Can I ask what you mean by "AMP"? Other than that, thanks for the reassurance, hopefully we start seeing some positive effects of all the efforts soon.

It's updated very regularly. It has a Twitter ticker, and we have fresh news/blog posts weekly. The only significant new tech we've implemented is CAPTCHA to some contact forms as we were heavily spammed a few weeks ago (which may or may not be related to the negative seo theory?!) As for 404's...

Hi. New to the forums but have been in SEO/Marketing for around 5 years. I manage an SME website which until recently has ranked very high in search (1-3). Our primary "target" keyword has a keyword difficulty of 34 (Moz). Over the past few months however we have noticed a drop in our rank and...