It is the right thing to do if you HAVE to do it of course.
if he/she has made his mind up 1005, then I would setup an apache 301 redirect match, and live with the loss for a couple of months. Could go as smooth as a babies, bum, could go to ratshit. But after a couple of months all will be well
Google has 905 share of the Uk market, so one has to take that into consideration here.
That aside lets look at what search eninges use to rank a site.
1. domain name
2. ip physical location
3. content
4. bricks and mortar loacations
5. inbound links
6. outbound links
By having links from...
Cheekyman, title description and alt image attributes will not scratch the surface of a real estate site (sorry). It might be ok for 'red widgets in sometown', but real estate is competitive.
yep, great post Colin. There is a lot of debate as to what BH is and isn't but things like spamming of comments, server log spamming, cloaking of content based on IP/user agent etc all count as black hat.
Taking out a competitors site is also deemed black hat (people must not listen to google...
Well I am #1 for google expert for a search on google.co.uk (keep in mind that results are now geo located, so outside the Uk you might get different results).
You needn't move the .com to a uk server, you really need to set the domain geo location in Google webmaster tools and Google is sorted.
Switching domains isn't something to be taken lightly, take advice is my advice.
SEO is a tricky one. The good SEO's are real busy, the poor ones will cold call you and spam the hell out of forums etc.
Real estate is tricky, not easy and not cheap.
I am number 1 for 'google expert' on google,
have I had death threats? YES, but because of my rugby forum :D
Have i been penalised NO as I am white hat.
Have I had my content copied? YES all the damn time
is it worth it? YES as I have bragging rights, and it got me on the BBC :D
if this was maliscous intent then you need to provide Google with your Logs to show themthe IP of the guy that clicked on your ads.
In all honesty though while I have managed to get back adsense accounts for people in the past, it is not that easy and you have to be whiter than white...
I understand what you are saying but search engine traffic accounts for maybe 10% of my enquiries, I am not reliant on it, in fact when i was page one for the phrase "search engine optimisation" I DID have a ridiculous amount of enquiries so de-optimised my site.
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