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Hi Prestashop! Thanks for the info. We will talk to our marketing guy and find out what kind of tracking url he is using. We appreciate your help

Thanks for your responses. I'm not too worried about users finding these sitemaps as they only appear very far into the search results. The only worry I had was that these pages could be seen as low-quality/thin pages of content. I guess David-Kley's suggestion of naming the images properly could kill two birds with one stone; Have relevant content indexed on these pages and perhaps attract a few more visitors through google image search. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi Kristina thanks for your response - looks like i will just have to be more patient!! Thanks Ash

I can't say I have a complete understanding of what this is explaining, but here's a link to the original paper on Stanford's website if anyone else is interested. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

You're very transparent and I appreciate that, but I believe this takes a deeper analysis of the page. I seriously question what your Referral Traffic, Direct Navigation, and Search Traffic numbers looks like in detail - This may give us a better clue, as would a number of other deeper analytics as opposed to these surface numbers. If you would like to be a bit more candid about these numbers via message, I think I could help you uncover the issue. I look forward to hearing from you! @Neighborhood SEO

There are only three reasons to no-follow a link, Tom. The link is untrusted - e.g. User-generated content like blog comments or forums The link is being paid for or is otherwise part of a business arrangement (this is a little broader - can include large-scale guest-posting and press releases) In specific cases to help manage crawl budget for a site (note: NOT to be used to try to manage flow of "linkjuice" internally through a site) Anything other than these uses could actually cause overuse of no-follow to make your own site look spammy/questionable. Here's a really good overview post from Raven Tools blog on exactly the question you're asking about what constitutes effective, safe use of outbound links. Hope that helps? Paul

Well hopefully Google will do it's job and recognise the canonicals. Keep an eye on your stats and if you don't see improvements, then you may need to do additional work. -Andy

Thank you very much ! This was really helpful

If you use cpanel for hosting, it is super easy. http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/ReDirects If not, the same basic principle applies. If you want to send me the new url where you want it to go to, I can code you a redirect function that will work.

Hi Ruben it isn't the numbers of people, and that is already after a week of the rankings going down significantly, normally my numbers would be on the 100+ per week. The main problem is the organic keywords dropping from 6 top 3 keywords and over 10 top 10's to 0 top 10 keywords and my best placed keyword is ranking 11th. This is the main problem.

Thanks for the response,  I did have someone go through it all using copyscape and at that time 180 days ago it was pretty much clean,  I guess I have to go back and cleanse it... I will start moving the content,  thank you....If I had to guess I would think wordpress cms will do much better than mine,  but can provide a specific as to why you feel it will do better as far as site optimization...  using Yoast I know will help but other than that? Nick

Hi. An update for those curious minded folks. The page is back! I am not sure what happened. I think it may have been caused by a conflict between 2 content management systems. We had the URL in both, one being redirect to the pop-in. Somehow Google picked up on it. Thank you1

Hi Chris, Frankly, don't have a perfect answer to the situation but, its just not the purpose that pagination exists for. You go in for pagination under the following scenarios if you wish all your paginated content to appear in the search results: (Taken from Google): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en 1. News and/or publishing sites often divide a long article into several shorter pages. 2. Retail sites may divide the list of items in a large product category into multiple pages. 3. Discussion forums often break threads into sequential URLs. Moreover, the pagination mark-up provides a strong hint to Google that you would like them to treat these pages as a logical sequence, thus consolidating their linking properties and usually sending searchers to the first page. This would not be the desired outcome in your client's case Chris. So, you can convince them not to implement the pagination mark-up for generic top-level navigation pages as these pages should rank individually for respective search terms if any and they are definitely not the part of any logical sequence and this defies the very purpose behind paginated content. Those were my two cents friend. Good luck. Best regards, Devanur Rafi

Thanks for the feedback! I was not the person who set-up the site like this.  I came on board and that is how it is working.  I want it changed but just wanted to make sure I was on the right track.

Okay let's say I named my company video games and then of course I want my company's name to be my Site name so Site videogames.com My ability to make a real brand out of that generic name would be almost impossible. Where if I came up with a unique name and it really caught on the opposite would happen for instance Kleenex is sometimes used in the place of tissues and Band-Aid is used to replace bandage. I'm not telling you not to put a keyword in your branding I'm telling you to make your brand-name unique. Band-Aid is a perfect example of another great name that incorporates some of the actual word for the product is creating along with something unique. If you're going to make this night very authoritative and it's actually going to do something amazing you should come up with the best name that you like you should not be worried at all about the way search engines perceived your name. Obviously don't go name it something like "Viaggra"I added the extra G make it different but it's going to be perceived as pretty bad by Google. Many businesses are turned into shorter names because they are so long BMW is Bavarian Motor Works My own part of the company name Northen Elastomeric Industries We shorten the doing business name as NEI however I'm not particularly a fan of acronyms but if you look at a company like Mercedes-Benz You have people using one person's family name and the other's daughters name This is so great brands are started for reasons that the actual founders and a normal percentage of the people purchasing the product would like. Spitball throughout a bunch of different names that you would like to make your company name My company is Blueprint Marketing I like the name a lot and was lucky to get the domain. However know that I did put marketing in the name I was contemplating need a blueprint however that name was already registered trademark to somebody else. Combine something that you like that represents your brand with a name that tells people what you do Or better yet if you're going to be an authority just come up with a name that you like. My opinion is that exact match domains will be penalized severely in the near future so if you're going to make something that's built to last why would you gamble it on something like you'll small percentage higher traffic now

are there some reccomendation or good practice to get google display site links?

All of you guys rock!  I have never been involved in a community that has had the right answers every time... I used the   on all my static pages such as directions, policies, contact, etc... and it removed all the parameters thereby eliminating them from standing out in the MOZ crawl.. I feel like and idiot not knowing about this HTML tag and its importance.   My moz crawl now looks so so much better. When I mean old url parameters, I just meant a few seconds old,  meaning the user is on property.aspx?property=1  then when they moved to a static page such as contact, directions, policy we now have another page called contact.aspx?property=1 which if I have 150 properties times 10 static pages I basically just created 150 duplicate content errors just for the contact page alone.   Because contact.aspx?property=1 or contact.aspx?property=150 and in between are all the same page... I am sure this has killed my SEO.   SO THAT PROBLEM IS NOW FIXED!! NOW to revisit what zenstorageunits says about URL rewriting which has many different ways to do it using .net,  but Miketek I would not have to create subdirectories because it is done in the code... they are more like virtual directories... zenstorageunits or anyone else for that matter, Is it worth it for me to hire somebody to create a URL rewrite app that can change the following; http:/www.destinationbigbear.com/property_detail.aspx?propid=202 to http://www.destinationbigbear.com/big-bear-cabin-rentals/a-true-cabin/details and http:/www.destinationbigbear.com/property_photos.aspx?propid=202 to http://www.destinationbigbear.com/big-bear-cabin-rentals/a-true-cabin/photos See everyone of my 150 cabins has these pages;   info, photos, calendar, video, reviews, rates...and they all have unique cabin names... so it is basically 150 cabins x 6 pages = 900 unique pages with unique content but really only 6 pages dynamically being changed by 150 cabins. I have been able to dynamically change all the page titles for everyone of these 900 database driven pages such as Big-Bear-Cabin | A True Cabin Photos   or Big-Bear-Cabin | A True Cabin Calendar and so on.

Hi - A good question to ask is do you have 400 pages that are relevant, up-to-date and useful to visitors. If you have duplicate content, empty pages and so on a decrease in indexed pages is not necessarily a bad thing. You don't want your SEO efforts diluted across multiple pages when there is only one best page and you don't want your visitors to go to a bad/old page because this would be a poor user experience for them. My first check would be to look at your XML sitemap. If you don't have one start there (be sure to upload to Google Webmaster Tools). If you do have one check there are no issues (in Google Webmaster Tools) and also have a manual check to ensure that it is using correct tags, indexed all of your pages etc. Also have a look at your robots.txt file - have you made any changes lately? Blocked sections from being accessed? Content - do you have lots of pages with similar content. If so you should use rel-canonical tags so that search engines know which page should be indexed. Find the true amount of webpages you have (and want indexed), tidy up the what and how pages get indexed and then use that number as your benchmark for amount of pages indexed. Hope that helps,Davinia

hey all, thought i'd post an update.  i was poking around in webmaster tools for a different issue and found a section that said i did in fact need to resubmit the https version of the site in order to get the correct data.  i'd be happy to try and find that page again if anyone was interested. thx!