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Just curious...and excuse my ignorance... is the Structure Data Markup Helper the same thing as the Data Highlighter ?

My very best educated guess (after talking with dev friends here at Moz) is that CloudFront is supposed to be used for long-term storage. This means the content isn't expected to change frequently. This is great for images and other static things. However, this is also a signal to Google not to crawl your site as often as it won't be changing that often.

Thanks Netrepid - that might be a last resort in order to just boost up the internal page, but at this stage I'm trying to get to the bottom of why the homepage is ranking so poorly and why the internal page is ranking better. Once we understand what the issues here are then we can probably put together a better plan to optimise and fix both of the pages.

I think you need to wait a little bit. The decrease in traffic could just be because of the 301 redirects that are looping around. Don't make to many changes at one time. Once the 301 redirects settle, the links from your old site should start to drop. You are telling Google that the site has moved, and if the back links aren't connected to the new domain, aside from the 301, they will start to fall off naturally. A disavow action at this point would hurt more than help. Just be patient and give it a couple of weeks.

Fantastic! Thanks Dean

Never shift a website from one country to another country by myself but let me tell you what theory tells us. -          Map Changing If you website was associated to any business registered in Google Maps and other yellow pages than you carefully need to remove all listings and re-register it on another country. These will defiantly going to hurt your rankings on specific country where you were ranking before. The problem is results for every country are different from others so if the rankings didn’t really changed (most probably it will fluctuate for local keywords) the rankings that you had in US will not be the same in AU. What you should be doing. Change your NAP and Re-register your maps in Google and other Yellow pages. Update content accordingly Get new links from .AU domains Change your targeted country in Google Webmaster Tool Get links from local keywords And you will see your rankings will start appearing in google.com.au Hope this helps!

By block, I assume you mean not index them? If you're using Yoast, all you need to do is select "noindex subpages of archives" under the Titles & Meta menu. So if simply not indexing is the desired result, that's the easiest bet - and then you will not index all other subpages such as /category/page/2/ etc

If you remove a URL and allow it to 404 you can either remove it in GWT as well, or wait for them to update it. I would remove it in GWT as well just to be sure. There is no difference whether you have the files on the server or not unless the redirect comes down someday for awhile (even for an hour), which could result in all of those pages being reindexed. Other potential issues are if you have the site available on another domain or sub-domain that points to the same folder, in which case your redirects might not work on the other domain, depending on how they were written. For these reasons, I would go ahead and remove the files from the server just to be safe. You can back them up somewhere local or at some point before the "Public HTML" folder on the server.

You need to confirm that the URLs are in fact 100% of your URLs going into the site map are accessible. if it's a big issue in a big site send me the URL in a private message I will use deep crawl to create a XML sitemap for you. The screaming frog tool is excellent as well though does performance well with extremely large sites. check your robots.txt file this so great tool if in case you have more than one (it happens) http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/ or http://tools.seochat.com/tools/robots-txt-validator/ so many great free tools are found right here http://tools.seochat.com/tools/ It could be a number of things although it could be Google being finicky. Run the site through Moz crawler, use feedthebot.com using "tools SEO" or download the free version of http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/  this will tell you if there is an issue. If your site is static you can even create an alternate site map with screaming frog if your site is large use deep crawl or Moz analytics be certain there are no sitemaps redirecting to each other so no redirects going from the old site map to the new site map. Make certain that the site map is in an XML format e.g.  http://example.com/sitemap.xml or if in a different format like https://example.com/sitemap_index.xml make sure the proper format That resolves when you look at the site map is what is going into Webmaster tools. Be certain the site map does not contain over 500 URLs per the site map so example.com/sitemap1.xml and so on keep  numbering them appropriately. sometimes Google is overloaded and does not seem to like to play well with certain site maps or the site map is maybe not generating very well on the server and that is fixed later on. If this is a long-term problem speak to your host or developer. My recommendation is if you've done everything I have talked about that you attempt to submit is the sitemap to to Webmaster tools or  simply build a new sitemap and submit that. so if worse comes to worse take the screaming frog and use this URL to send it to Google http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/business-owner/ I hope that helps, Thomas

We don't use Comscore. Analytics transparently kept tracking everything without any change. We don't use Tagmanager url matching tracking, but unless you have not defined rules which include the url protocol it should not need any attention either.

You definitely need to mark them as fixed in order to remove them. If anything wasn't fixed properly then Google will show them as a 404 again.

Maybe so. I'll have to find out from our web team. Thanks!

Thanks, What I'm going to do is attach the domain to the blog, but the blog will just remain the same blog.

Thanks -really good advice

Hi Thanks for looking at the issue. There should be four working nameservers. I have four set in both WHM and at my domain registrar. I added two more two (3 and 4) so maybe they are taking a while to resolve around the web. Will look at the SOA, thanks. Server and domain set up isn't at the top of my skill set. The domain you mention in this thread is just a testing domain to see what happens with a certain kind of content so it hasn't been treated too seriously to be honest.

Link to it Add it to sitemap Compress it and make it load faster My guess is that the file size is too large. Why not turn it into an HTML page? Or several pages?

They are mostly permanently out of stock /  out of collection. Based on research and your reactions we want to 301 redirect them to the relevant category page. The number of 404 errors in webmaster tools are quite substancial. The ones which are not permanently out of stock but temporarily unavailable we want to maintain the product page with a comment that the product will be orderable soon.

Everything went back to normality in GWT after 48 hours.

Hi Ashish, Add the new version and delete the old. Retaining the old sitemap shouldn't flag you for duplicate content, however, it doesn't make sense to tell Google to crawl those pages if they are just going to redirect to new pages that are in the new sitemap. Extra work for GoogleBot. Hope this helps!

Hmm I wasn't able to view that example with the URL you provided. What is the domain name?