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OK Gary. Thanks

I would not do too many of these, but I agree with Gary. As long as there are no penalties associated with the domains, owning them and 301-ing them to your website should be fine and may get some domain traffic when someone types theexactproductyousell.com Having said that, I don't think this will do what you want. If these domains don't have links pointing to them or any authority, so It's not likely to do much for positive rankings.

My pleasure!

I'm glad to hear you've been sorted out Lawrence Neal. I find it interesting the the other Lawrence saw something similar, and I'll ask around to see if it was a glitch that other people have noticed too. For anyone reading this wondering what Mr. Neal was referring to in regard to rel canonical / href lang conflict, there's a good writeup of it over at Dejanseo.com and Gianluca Fiorelli mentions it in his comment on Dr. Pete's Rel Canonical uber post here on Moz.

hmmm $1000 / 8 hrs = $125 per hr Should have taken 30 mins tops and that's really too much time. So thats $62.50, and if they must charge you an hour minimum its $125 MAX At those rates they are claiming Almost 3 hrs work.

Hi Kevin/Steve Having a whole https sites tend to take longer to respond to the first byte and load i've found, which seem to be increasingly important in rankings. I believe this can have an effect if the competition have faster more established sites and you are trying to get above them. But another train of thought is that google may also trust you more if its a whole https site, so following Kevin's advice and having a https may be the most effective long term, unfortunately clients don't tend to like to wait. Regards Paul

Yeah, the likes of Wickes etc do have a high domain authority but they're not focusing on these specific search terms. They are appearing because they are closely related. If they did focus specifically on each search term I'm sure they would be number 1. I'd suggest building up your long tail, maybe slightly varied to your competitor so that you do trump them at the top and just continue down the path of progression. They've probably been there a while and Google has no reason to shift them if people are clicking onto their site and finding what they want.

Thanks for the responses. Within 12-24 hours, I actually bounced back on to the front page. In the last 2-3 weeks I have seen this particular ranking be anywhere between position 3 and position 7 and then not even in the top 200 for a couple of hours. It seems to be quite a bouncy & unstable ranking. Most of my others sit very solidly and don't move around too much. I now don't think it's the internal linking, but just some weird thing happening and I guess I'll just have to wait for it to settle.

Nah, it doesn't matter. It's still the same as when you put it at the end.

So if you read around on the topic Google supporting AJAX is a recent development so there are still many issues, with this. Think of it this way if Google bots still have a hard time reading regular code after so many years now. AJAX will have issues, they are focusing from what it seems on commenting systems such as FB, and Disqus. However try it out and see if your AJAX is being read if not it might be some time before most of the AJAX crawling works as it should. Hope this helps More info: http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-javascript-for-indexing-99518 and http://moz.com/community/q/can-google-read-ajax

Thanks guys for your help, i appreciate it.

Absolutely, many sites go through a total re-branding. The history of the site and probably the existing back links will get the site going rather fast, providing the site has not been penalised or anything like that in the past or suspect link building. Make sure you create a good sitemap and have a good 404 page setup for all pages that no longer exist. be sure to remove all the pages that you no longer want/need. Take advantage of some of the existing pages on the site if possible, the history and any links to those pages will be a good start for those pages. Also look at the possibility of 301 redirecting any pages that have pagerank or links coming to them to related new pages that you create.

Right! I think now I have the complete picture and I can crack on working on it! Thank you very much indeed! Best Regards Oscar

Basically I learned that you cannot put schema markup in tags, everything is fixed now.

Author schema really shines and helps with clickthrough on the SERPS in Google results for posts and articles and sometimes pages.  (see attached) It is not so much useful beneficial, (even though it can be done, and you may still find value) for your author page. Also generally G+ profile is linked to your Author schema, You cannot add schema to your moz profile page. Or in that case use your moz profile to link to your site like you can with G+. Even though this could be really cool idea but not sure if Google will allow that Hope this helps zLGCd3e.jpg

Now been reindexed. Thank you.

Remus said it well, they are obvious thin content pages, almost identical, Search engines don't want to list every variation of a simular page. You need to add more unique content to each page. But when I visit, using IE 11 on Windows 8.1, I get a big warning about cookies. This can't be good for conversion. do you really need this warming?

This sounds as a reasonable answer, all the previous things mentioned here have been changed with no positive results. We will change this and see what happens. Thanks!

All though possible I would imagine Google would of sent out a warning or similar if there was some sort of penalty.

These are caused by the links to your language pages.  If you click one of the language links from within the source code (not on the page) it redirects to a URL with '?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html' added. Then if you click the same language link on that page it again redirects to another page with previous URL added to the end: ?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html. e.g: On the example page view source, search for German and click the link below: http://de.binary-options.biz/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html This link 301 redirects too: http://www.binary-options.biz/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html Then if you view source, search for German and click the link again: http://de.binary-options.biz/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html This link 301 redirects too: http://www.binary-options.biz/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html?q=/index.php/Web-Pages/binary-options-platforms.html So basically every time a web crawler follows a language link, new URLs are being created with the previous URL added to the end, causing a never ending crawl as an infinite amount of new pages will always be created. I don't think this is connected with the Joomla SEF as Chris pointed out, as your URLs are already SEF. However it's not an easy thing to identify how to fix the issue with the language links. You should probably speak to the developer who implemented it and/or the creator of the plugin if it is a plugin. Also do you even need this functionality? As none of the language links work, they just redirect back the main site.