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Ah, it's difficult to see anything on the page because i can't read Turkish. The only thing you should know is that every single page in a website should have unique content. So if two pages are exactly or almost exactly the same then Google will think it's duplicate content.

I think I've already answered to this question few weeks ago :). Said that, I would quit the geolocation of the .com and add in both sites the rel="alternate" hreflang="x-X" and the rel="alternate" hreflang="default" this way: <rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.domain.com"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="http://www.domain.co.uk"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" hreflang="default" href="http://www.domain.com"></rel="alternate"> The first line is saying to Google to show that URL for search done in English all the the world. The second that you want Google to show only the .co.uk URLs to the users from Great Britain The third suggest Google to show to people doing a search in another language than English, but that could show up your sites, the .com global version of the site, even if it in English.

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Thanks Everett, Strange, the product on the website appears in two places, on the homepage 'Featured' product, and in the Chanel > 2.55 bags category. When I check both I only see the product name after the .com/. Thanks for the heads up about restructuring to match the rel canonical, makes perfect sense. I'll be moving over to Wordpress, Woocomerce at some point in the future. I'll look into making the linkable URL neat and tidy as suggested. Much appreciated... Kevin

The wordpress hacking was almost surely due to having outdated version of WP, or having a vulnerable plugin installed.  There are a few helpful plugins you can use to secure your WP site, plugins like (http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/). also a couple things to note, you should also take basic measures to project the site by changing the default table prefixes of your DB from _wp,  create a new admin user and delete the default "admin" accoun & limit access to your wp-admin section in your .htaccess file.... these security plugins will give you a whole checklist of items to "secure".

Hi Allen, Thanks for that! Really helpful. I'll look into it right away. Tom

Joelhit is completely right about the www and non-www version. You should 301 one of them to the others to resolve the duplicate content issues or alternatively you could go to Google Webmaster Tools and let them know which one is your preferred version. This will only affect your issues for Google though. The first option remains the best. To answer your question, no i do not think the yahoo store would have impacted your rankings so much. Just make sure that you get your 301's setup and that you do not link to http://theheismanwinners.com/index.html but instead to http://theheismanwinners.com/. (Or the www. if you choose this as your preferred domain.) I hope i answered your question. Let me know if anything was unclear.

You should be fine then.  However I would still insure your site isn't sitting on any penalized sites others performed unethical tactics, or Google found unethical and penalized along the way. Open OSE and I would look into the lowest DA's PA's leading to your website and try to remove them if they are to low. Have a great night.

If you already fixed the error, then just wait for Google to figure things out on their end. Having those errors in GWT isn't going to hurt you.

Yeah that makes sense.  I also have a lot of experience with databases and the back ends of websites so I know your language. I'm wondering how Google correlates the url with the page entries then. Maybe each page entry would have a url field so Google knows the location of the live version to constantly update that entry in the "page directory" database?

Did you check your errors in the webmasters to figure out if you have duplicate content warnings or other warnings types from Google?

Thanks for the help! The Screaming Frog site crawler really makes it much easier to understand the robots.txt file. It looks like it was set to "disallow" robots.

From Google's Webmaster Tools help on Geotargeting: "If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we'll rely largely on the site's country domain (.ca, .de, etc.). If an international domain (.com, .org, .eu, etc) has been used, we'll rely on several signals, including IP address, location information on the page, links to the page, and any relevant information from Google Places." More info here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399 I recently set the geotargeting in Google Webmaster Tools of a UK hosted .com domain to Australia and started ranking on google.au. Make sure you've optimised for local as you normally would.

If you have still left the redirects in place; these should work. As they would indicate that the 'old' page redirects to the page without comments. I would also suggest adding a canonical link to all your pages. So in case you missed a redirect or you have disabled them it would tell Google that the page it is visiting is exactly the same as the one in the canonical link. Change will not happen overnight; it will take some time; especially if you had a robots blocking Google from doing to that url, as it would have to first identify the url to be 'crawlable' then find the redirect or canonical, after that update the serps & indexes.

That's exactly right!

Thanks, everyone, for the responses. I downloaded the crawl error CSV and sorted it by duplicate title... there a lot of cities without states attached to them, so that's where all the thousands of duplicate titles are coming from and we're taking care of that fast! Thanks!

I try to not leave content along for "never" as it's good to watch page performance. Since search engines change their algos and keywords can grow more competitive, I don't feel the need to constantly update my content for "freshness," but I do look at performance and change if I'm not getting the results I want. I'm not a news site, it's not a blog and we aren't always adding or changing products, so I take freshness with some grain of salt. Because a page works well at a certain place in time doesn't mean it always will and being proactive can help keep it steady.

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out to us! I am sorry if Roger is somehow not following your robots.txt directives.  To ensure that Roger doesn't crawl your site you can put the following directive above your general directives in your robots.txt: User-agent: rogerbot Dissallow: / Once this is in place you should find our crawler to be a lot more obedient towards your site. Hope this helps, please let us know if you have any more questions about our crawler. Best, Peter Moz Help Team.

and this disallows everything in the /details/ folder so if there were some exceptions to the rule (some pages or sub folders in that folder) you would need to add some allow directives, or make a more specific disallow(s)

Thank you.