Is it not possible to rank your contact page for Denver seems like the most obvious place.

I have seen sites with locations based on every page and they seem to be getting away with it, however with the way Google is working its hard to say what they are thinking or what they may do in the future

I don't think it is going to hurt your site as long as it reads well and the way you described them above it looks just fine, however do they really need to be on every page put them on the most relevant page.

Paul

Thanks for the replys

@Billy

What i mean by old content wont move, all we have done is change the URL name of the site the new site is a mirror of the old site with all the correct 301's going to the mirrored pages,

Although  all the new site is indexed fully, there are around 100 pages of the old site left no important pages just some really deep linked pages which is normal i think.

My ranking is not ok, it was on the old domain but not the new i am down at least 85% compared to site now and the site as it was.

@CleverPhD

Thanks for the feedback 6 month wait is not what i was hoping but if that what it takes then so be it i just needed a figure to work too, hopefully the site will start to rank again soon

Hi Guys,

Following on from a question i asked last week in regard to a 301 http://www.seomoz.org/q/301-redirect-have-no-ranking

I was thinking that i had some kind of issue on the site, although i have gone over it with a fine tooth comb i cannot find any issue's and from the amount of reads the thread has had im sure if there was something obvious it would have been pointed out.

So i am quite confident the 301 from site A to site B is fine and working as intended, so my question is how long should it take until the juice is passed From site A to Site B as its 9 weeks now and still down 85% on traffic and even text for my home page if copied into the search bar don't bring up my site

Bing is fine and did not see any real traffic drops but Google is not giving me back the rankings i had prior

Whenever i have done a 301 before the rankings pretty steady and i see no real loss in rankings but this time ... painful

all changes in WMT made
Canonical tag implemented
all Pages 301 and correct 200 response from the targeted page
Sitemap Updated
Many Links Changed from Old site to new (including DMOZ)
no Robots text Blocking directory's 
Google crawling freely and regularly

The strange thing is New content is indexed immediately and ranks easily, I added a page for my service in my local area and went straight to position 5 in Google however old existing content wont move, I tracked 150 keywords only 4 are top 75

Don't know what else to do  so any advice would be much appreciated

PS site is around 17k pages

Paul

I have worked with many people who have 301 a site for whatever reason and although i would not call myself an expert i am quite familiar with what i do.

In the UK there was a big SEO company that got the unnatural links message and then they had a drop of around -50 to -150 places created a new URL and recovered their rankings.

This same company who had many many clients also used this practice on their customers (the one's that stuck with them that is) and at the beginning  all were successful because the time spent correcting any issues was taken and links replaced

After a while they got complacent and would just 301 sites that they had spammed which took a drop in rankings and at first all seemed good, then after a few weeks they would drop, these were the sites that were caught in penguin or panda and did not resolve the out lying issue's be it over optimisation, thin content or just the fact that the links pointing to the site were devalued resulting in a loss of ranking juice.  once they addressed these issues (not removing links) the sites returned to a decent level higher than the original site after the penalty.

As i mentioned in the earlier post if a penalty could be passed through a 301 it would be easy to point at a competitor,

I do suppose its going to be one of those questions that in near on impossible to prove 100% and no real credible source is going to exist they are just going to be examples like mine, but i have seen it with my own eyes,

The penalty wont pass through a 301 and that's 100% , however if you have Panda or Penguin issues that are not cleared before you 301 the site then the algorithmic penalty will picked up.

If a site had a penalty and was passed, then all i would do is 301 my penalised site to my competitor , As Mark Higgins who responded in this thread has done a 301 and all initially ok but i bet there are issues and would like to see the timeline of of drop after the initial 301

The penalty wont pass through a 301 and that's 100% , however if you have Panda or Penguin issues that are not cleared before you 301 the site then the algorithmic penalty will picked up.

If a site had a penalty and was passed, then all i would do is 301 my penalised site to my competitor , As Mark Higgins who responded in this thread has done a 301 and all initially ok but i bet there are issues and would like to see the timeline of of drop after the initial 301