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There was a Google Pengiun update yesterday called Pengiun 2.0. A ton of websites were penalized and lost rankings. I saw this this morning with a few of my sites as well. Give it a week or so for Google to adjust to the new algorithm changes before making any extreme moves. More info on the algorithm change on Matt Cutt's blog here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/

Thanks so much for your help. I'm working with the web dev team today to find out if they can get these redirects in place.

No problem, please let me know what you come up with I would be interested to find out

From my experience with this latest update (not even 24 hours old, mind you) it seems to be more of the latter than the former. I'm seeing sites that had a mix of good/poison links sit around the same placement while sites with nothing but spam links dropped off the face of the earth. Again though, this is early and one teeny tiny little example out of the billions of pages out there.

Thanks for confirming  that it's not a new feature to bother us

No, there is a submit option in Google Webmaster Tools under Health -> Fetch as Google. You can also just point some links to it from a few social bookmarking sites. If you're using Wordpress, you can include a few ping services to notify under your Writing settings: http://onlinewebapplication.com/wordpress-ping-optimizer/#comment-38368

Hey Jason, I have been studying this SEO stuff for the past 10 months ( so I am no expert), and the conclusion I am coming to is that you have to play Google's game (as it seems like you are doing) while constantly looking for other sources of traffic/ customers. My feeling is that Google wants the commercial landscape to essentially look like a shopping mall -- minimal effort to find what you need (Hmmm.... I need a new DVD player. Oh there's Best Buy! I'll go there, I've heard of that place).  So small business needs to try to differentiate as it does in the real world But just the eye test on your homepage...(take this with a grain of salt, I'm just trying to help) i don't like the vertical "Sale" banners they look cheesy, and the moving reviews -- 1) they are too fast/ impossible to read and 2) I always look at Amazon and Zappos, and what do they do? Reviews = Stars.  Also if I'm nitpicking, the product photos on the homepage are a bit on the small side Also this product: Denver TCU-203C portable stereo with USB - Pink is listed as out of stock ...so? what do if I want that? Is there something similar? Just some thoughts...

Thanks my friends!

Yeah, I've general heard positive things where it's a clear issue of content syndication and you control the content. If they're honored that way, they should pass link equity. The major newspapers use it. I'd only warn that Google can process cross-domain canonicals at their discretion, so it's not guaranteed. Worst case, they just ignore them, and you may have to reconsider, but I think it's safe to attempt it.

If you want to rank for your site in both languages and have them crawled you need to create separate pages for each language. Read here: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/multilingual-seo/19903/ If you use an auto detect function your content will not cater good to your audience or Google.

You will never see the second one (as url) ranking above the first - so no issues there. Google ranking system is ok with dealing with this type of things even if the Google bot isn't and it puts everything into the index Just to sleep well  I would post this question on Google forum and wait for someone in Google to assure you it's fine. I would't worry a bit.

Well i am testing a couple things. 1. i change a link on my site to an existing page. 2. i deleted a "coming soon plugin that in not using. 3. i deleted an older sitemap i found in my ftp file manager. If none of this works then i have no idea what the problem is and will have to start eliminating plugins i guess. thank you all for the help,

Looks interesting! I have never heard of that platform before, it might be a tad expensive for what I require.

15% is in the original algorithm, it may have changed but I doubt if much, if you read the algorithm its a pretty well thought out figure of decay. I have seen the video and it is not very clear at all, maybe on purpose. What he says is that a 301 loses as much PR as a link, I agree. all requests lose 15%, You can't have a 301 without first going though a link. I think where people are getting confused is they think a 301 replaces a link request, it dose not, it is an extra request. If you read the comments of the video and much discussion around the web you will see what I mean.

Hi Aleyda Sorry 1 more question: Ive noticed that the new pages have started to rank well already. In this case is it still advisable to 'fetch as google' in GWT the old redirected urls or, since the new pages have been found and ranking well, best to not fetch the old urls ? Best Rgds Dan

I assume you have let google and bing know where you sitemap is? if you put it at the root called sitemap.xml they will find it anyhow, or put it in your robots.txt But really you should not need to, unless tthey are not reachable to the crawler. What I suggest you do, is mark up not just your image but each product using schema.org, this will tell the search engine that you have a product, what its called, the description, the image of that product, the price, the maker and other stuff. http://schema.org/Product

Thank you for your answer. I just add  tag as follows: And this problem was fixed.

The html isn't stored on access, the programming language is html 5 What confuses me is that through access I have sections that I can change, such as meta title, meta description and also I can change the content shown on the web pages but in reality I can only change the content on the site, all the html tags don't change even if I modify them. My point is that the if I can change the content on the site I should be able to change also the content on the html unless when it has been set up they didn't do it properly and any changes to the html file have to be done on the ISP. Cheers Oscar

Simalar question here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitor-scraped-ecommerce-product-overview Short answer, e-commerce site copying products descriptions from other sites is common place, and there is little you can do about it, but I believed google will know that its your content as it will most likely be crawled on your site before your competitors have a chance to find, copy, post and then get crawled.