We was set the challenge of ranking a new site over in Germany, not a problem but I cant speak any German. The site would be a clone of the companies UK site, this owns on all its major keywords in google.co.uk.

After getting over the initial restriction placed on all .de domains ( if you dont live in Germany you cant have one) we eventually located a host who could speak English and would be happy to help set up the DNS for the domain. It seems Germany as some very complicated requirements...

We first noticed the new Google Landscape after a call from a client saying there site had dropped. Intially we thought this was client mistake (checking google.com not .co.uk )

Ran rank tool and saw the results OMG huge drops, then we started to look at our own sites, while our SEO Company Manchester site had infact increased our ebay shop design site had indeed dropped. We had been sat at 2nd for over 8 months.

After looking at both campaigns ( glad I kept notes I noticed...