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On first sight, this might have something to do with it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nisv0z2fbl5sb2j/Screenshot 2014-01-27 09.56.30.png

Folder will get juice passed from your main domain. Subdomains are essentially treated as domains on their own.

It all depends what you want to achieve with your seo campaign.

I'm trying to rank a .im domain in Australia and having a hard time getting any traction at all. GWT won't let me geo-target the domain for Australia. It is currently set for Isle of Man.

Thinking of registering a .com.au (same domain isn't available, but I can get something close) and mirror the site completely.

I'd canonical all urls on the .com.au to the corresponding .im pages - would this make a difference?

Also, since the linkbuilding is being done for the .im domain - I think I'll have to start over on the .com.au domain.

Thoughts, tips and insight highly appreciated mozzers!

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The best thing you can do right now is nothing. Sit tight for about a week orso, keep an eye on your traffic and serps.Give Google some time to sort itself out and have a look when the dust settles. Don't go into panic mode and start changing all sorts of things - worst thing you can do right now.

I you could only optimize for one, SEO, which keyword phrase would you select and why? Going by the data I've attached with the two images.

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Looking at your entire backlink profile, I think you've got more to worry about than just paid ads. This for example would be a big no-no

Bug Out Bags

Also, there's heaps of non-relevant footer links floating around on decent pagerank pages. A clear sign of link buying.

*update - I thought you said the top two images were yours, but your
site is the plastic one. Anyway, seems you're still buying other links
such as on here: http://www.knight-kit.com/kitchen-remodeling
/a-handy-instruction-concerning-storage-systems-for-the-residence-storage-area-office

That looks like a spammy link page, and it's not indexed in Google. Perhaps part of one of the linkfarms they're taking down at the moment?

Hi, I think most of us would consider that a small budget. Email me at [email protected] and I'll see if my services would be a good fit for your company.

Internally redirecting pages with a 301 is fine. The whole point is to tell Google that what was once here, is now there.

However, if you're redirecting to a product is significantly different to the one that you had originally, you might want to have a placeholder on the old page, telling the client that this product s no longer available, but add a link to the new product that will achieve a similar outcome for the customer.

The perfect place to find writers is the Problogger Jobs board. I've had several great writers come from there. Another place to look is textbroker.com - you'll be paying for quality though, if that's not an issue.

The best thing you can do right now is nothing. Sit tight for about a week orso, keep an eye on your traffic and serps.Give Google some time to sort itself out and have a look when the dust settles. Don't go into panic mode and start changing all sorts of things - worst thing you can do right now.

Install Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin. Has all the options you're looking for in one easy tab

I'd leave the archive crawlable since you use them in your nav bar. Just make sure to have canonical attributes on my posts. Also, use the "strip catagory base from URL" option - makes it all look a bit cleaner and shortens your URLs

Looking at your entire backlink profile, I think you've got more to worry about than just paid ads. This for example would be a big no-no

Bug Out Bags

Also, there's heaps of non-relevant footer links floating around on decent pagerank pages. A clear sign of link buying.

*update - I thought you said the top two images were yours, but your
site is the plastic one. Anyway, seems you're still buying other links
such as on here: http://www.knight-kit.com/kitchen-remodeling
/a-handy-instruction-concerning-storage-systems-for-the-residence-storage-area-office

That looks like a spammy link page, and it's not indexed in Google. Perhaps part of one of the linkfarms they're taking down at the moment?

On first sight, this might have something to do with it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nisv0z2fbl5sb2j/Screenshot 2014-01-27 09.56.30.png

Sounds like you're looking for http://tracking202.com/home

Depending on how many pages your site has, I'd either just add canonicals to the pages, or check if your programmer did indeed not use the htaccess - which you can then always mend.

Also have a read through Dr Pete's post here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world which is probably the only duplicate content post you will ever need to read to fix any problems.

Did someone ever get back to you Brent?

Creating a new sitemap and submitting it should get rid of those errors. And might I suggest you setup a development domain so you won't have these problems again in future?

Going by the limited information, I'd probably opt for the co.uk site since you're deploying in the UK. You could transfer the juice from the .com to the co.uk with a 301

Are the links to the .com relevant to the new site content/market?

The perfect place to find writers is the Problogger Jobs board. I've had several great writers come from there. Another place to look is textbroker.com - you'll be paying for quality though, if that's not an issue.