Great news how you sorted your duplicate meta warning. Thanks for the bookmark.

I’ve been thinking of doing something different, and of using the .co.uk site for another purpose (perhaps a static collection of logos or design work).

They’re totally separate for now, and will stay that way until I have a little time on my hands.

Cheers.

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I highly recommend taking a look at webmaster tools through Google. It can help iron out any issues you’re having, and also gives an insight into how well you’re progressing.

John,

Sorry to read of your PR drop. I don’t think that having comments enabled on your site would’ve been the cause, unless perhaps you had your comment links using the ‘dofollow’ tag, and that they were all going to bad neighbourhoods.

I’d bring the comments back, but keep the links ‘nofollow’. Don’t be afraid to delete a comment if you think it’s spam, and good luck getting your previous PR value back.

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I was thinking of using meta tags in the head of my new theme, but I’ll have to make sure that I put them only on the homepage or something. Now that you’ve written this and I think about it – of course not every page on my site is going to be about all the things I would tag/describe my blog with.

Will also have to check out that webmaster tools thing.

Good luck!

Thanks for the recommendation. That’s appreciated.

John,

Cheers for offering your advice. You know, I think things are moving in the right direction already.

dk,

Matt’s kindly responded to a few of my questions, which has set my mind at ease somewhat.

Benn through a similar story, but without the stolen domain name, and it all turned out just fine.

Nice recovery!
dk

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If you want to do something, one think you could do is file a reconsideration request. The content shown on your domain has varied considerably since the domain was originally taken from you — who knows what was done in the meantime. By filing a reconsideration request you can make sure that the content shown during that time is not associated with your website as it is now. It generally makes sense to do this anytime you buy a website / domain name and are weary about what was done with it earlier. In your case, you know that it was used by someone you don’t trust, so a reconsideration request would make a lot of sense.

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