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Thank you very much for your prompt response! I shall Google defining the 404 page in .htaccess, I'm sure I'll have these errors fixed in no time, and that makes sense re the home page. Thank you!

The overall idea makes sense as you want to target specific people who are really looking for the kind of content you offer but what the suggestion about keywords and description there is a slight problem and that is that this will also kick the users who are searching for nightlife in Birmingham... How about going like this? Title: What’s on in the Nightlife of Birmingham? Description: carry on with the result of the information in the description. This way you will kick the irrelevant searches as well as welcome the people who are looking for your kind of content. Hope this helps!

Thanks!

Since panda and penguin is actually very common see article below http://www.seroundtable.com/google-same-result-same-page-15287.html

Joram is correct here. We don't crawl the web as deep or as fast as Google. Our crawl updates about once a month, so right now we're showing you data from before you made your URL change. It'll be 1-2 updates before we see the new URL and start reflecting accurate information about its metrics.

Google will still crawl canonical pages. How soon the index will reflect that will depend on how fast that crawl happens. I'm not sure there's anything you can do to speed that up.

Tech team at 3dcart said there is no way of fixing their blog.  Pretty crazy they released it like that. Is it better to create a subdomain blog.domain name or can I just put the self hosted WP blog in a folder to my site like this:  domainname/blog? I just want  Google to see fresh content to my site all the time, I'd go with whichever one works best.

I would have to say, checkout The Beginner's Guide to SEO, specifically chapters 4,5,6,7. Good luck!

Yep, I like this one too Dana. I'm sure "UK Clubbing Guide" would have more searches than "Clubbing Guide for the UK" anyway.

Dana Thanks very much for your answer I am of the same belief, I think Matt Cutts has just got me all concerned from reading to much about linking penalties and the ever confusing "Information of Mis-information"  as I affectionately call it in the office. have a great day. Ryan

Thanks Robert !!!

Cheers, I very much appreciate your comments dana!! from your opinion, should I fill / wait / for the forums to fill up with content then add more areas, or add more areas now and gradually fill the forums, its a catch 22, more forums = less busy = less attractive, but more area's = wider audience = more traffic (sort of) what you think about this?

Thanks for the complete answer! I also have an old site with around 1000 posts and also around 4000 products and just use categories. It is quite difficult to arrange everything and I was wondering how do you do it. In fact you just have categories in sidebar and then "sections" in the main menu so user can nav in your site. As I see it, the important thing is usability and easing the navigation. "urls" dont mind so much. Thanks again

As it is now I saw H2 = Category, I would try something like Crewel Wool - Swatches, etc. To me, the meta description is the most underutilized tool in most web site arsenals. You can do so much with them. So, do that and as you go clean up what you can. It will all help. Best

Yes - to both you and @MagicDude4Eva - it seems this is about the thin content as opposed to the index of products listed there. Page titles and URLs are indeed unique, but the content can certainly be worked on. Thanks a lot for your help

Thanks Miriam, they're a bit reluctant to hire a copywriter because of the relatively short shelf life of many of the books. I think it's a matter of prioritising and working through as many high priority descriptions as possible. Thanks for the advice!

Hey Ron - you'll want to set up a permanent (301) redirect from http://www.cedaradirondackchairs.net/index.html to http://www.cedaradirondackchairs.net (without a slash at the end). You appear to be on a Windows/IIS server which I'm not as familiar with, but if you have IIS access you should be able to set the redirect up with one of their modules or webconfig I think. This stackoverflow thread may have the answer to your question: http://serverfault.com/questions/116025/iis-301-redirect-from-index-html-to-for-seo-canonicalization You'll also want to change the home button on each page of your site to point to http://www.cedaradirondackchairs.net instead of http://www.cedaradirondackchairs.net/index.html.

Agreed. Always do what is best for the user. Sometime people stuff their title tags to get most "bang for the buck" and often times this can hurt them. I always look at the title as a cta in the organics and try to make them compelling and unique and don't care that much about min. length.