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Hi Nick, first of all, thanx for your responses. I already did the "fetch as Googlebot" thing 5 days ago. The page was successfully crawled and has been sent to the index successfully, according to Google Webmaster Tools. But in these 5 days, nothing changed. I like your suggestions with the extra text. We will add some and do the "fetch as Googlebot" again and see what happens. And you are absolutely right when it comes to the "value" of this page. It didn't send that much traffic, just a little. It is no big deal for us if this page doesn't get back into the index - but as someone doing SEO I want to figure out the problem Google seems to have with this page - just to test and learn for future problems

In google analytics, select a week, or month that you were getting good traffic and select compare to the past and then compare organic search sources against a week your traffic was off.  The ones with the biggest changes will show at the top of the list.  You'll be able to see if some of your terms are losing traffic or if all of your terms are losing traffic equally.

Check this out: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-brand-title-appending-16432.html It seems that Google is moving the site or company name to the front with a colon in some situations. I don't know if anyone has done a thorough study of it, but from what I have seen it seems to happen with sites that have a fairly solid brand established, but have page titles that are too long, keyword stuffed or for whatever other reason Google decides to alter what appears in the SERPs. Google has been shortening or altering such longer and spammier titles for a while, but about a month ago these "Brand: xxxxx" titles started appearing.  To me it seemed funny because I have used that format on the home page of my own site and many others for a while because it just made sense to me. I guess Google thinks so too.

Without GA and GWM , you are using long titles with too much word "Dubai", Think about how users will percieve it when looking it.  You could use something like that Website Design, SEO and PPC , WSI Net Power Using Dubai too much will not do too much. ALso look at your on page, did you also change the content. See if you are using words you are trying to rank in on page text.

Hi Thomas At the risk of being blunt, they're having you on. Having used the .net system and a lot of CMS', while I know the inifinite loop problem does exist, it is not a "stock" problem with .net or any CMS I've encountered.  If the 301s are returning a loop, it;s likely the dev team's implementation of the CMS and not the .net framework to blame.  From this point of view (which isn't the whole story of course), it's their job to solve it. In addition, adding a canonical to one URL would help the problem.  If only one page exists, adding a canonical tag to the one page is a strong directive to Google to index only that version of the URL.  That means, eventually, Google would stop indexing the other URL flagging the duplicate content.  So this would solve the issue. That's presuming that the other URL that's creating duplicate content is a variant of the page, like a query string (www.domain.com/example and www.domain.com/example?query).  If it was a completely different URL (www.domain.com/anotherexample) and it is showing the same content, but not redirecting, then there would be 2 pages in existence.  Again, either a redirect or canonical will help, although you could also get the devs to add <noindex,nofollow>to the meta tag of the page.</noindex,nofollow> If all else fails, you could use your robots.txt file to block any crawler from reaching the URL. Here's a handy guide that helps explain all these options. Hope this helps.

If you do as Fransisco says, and move the entire site correctly...you should just go to Google Webmaster tools and move the URLs there. If you have GWT approved for both domains, you just follow the guide in there to move the site from a Google perspective.

Hi Akram, Not if you tag them in the right way by using for example the hreflang tags to do this. A lot of Web sites are doing this, they create blog posts and translate them into multiple languages by using sub folders per country. If you would only create these blog posts and don't make them unique to their language, by not making clear which language the blog post is written in it makes it hard for Google to distinguish if your trying to spam (or not). Hope this helps a bit!

Chris, I am not sure you did anything wrong; I certainly can see how someone could have drawn that conclusion. Don't worry about it.

Hi Graeme, No worries. Chances are these errors were not true errors being encountered by users or search crawlers, but were exclusive to the SEOmoz Linkscape crawler, since it often hits URLs based on the existing index (which can be up to a month old at this point). Always a good idea to correlate with GWT and your server logs to figure what Googlebot and other users are actually hitting. Best, Mike

Thanks a lot, Ryan. This response was really helpful.

I believe that penalties on internal anchor text are BS.

Hi Jim, Thanks for the question - I can definitely understand how this is a little confusing. I took a look at your campaign, and I figured out what's up: you've set up your competitors as http://[Competitor XXX].com, when their actual sites are redirecting to http://www.[Competitor XXX].com. If you add the www, everything should start working as expected! Hope this answers your question! Cheers, Joel

It takes at least a month in my experience to see changes showing in search results. I also see a lot of fluctuation in client accounts, so definitely look at average ranking trends over a longer period of time. Also, there are few external links to your website for the term "kayak fishing" http://awesomescreenshot.com/03112whz3f It's true the other domains all have kayak fishing in their urls, but you also have links with that term in your URLs too site:yakangler.com/kayak-fishing I would recommend trying to get links from quality domains using anchor text Kayak fishing and other phrases incorporating Kayak Fishing ("submit kayak fishing stories" for example), and linking back to the relevant pages on your website plus a few links to the home page. Just don't overdo it and keep it natural. You may even want to check in with a few Chamber of Commerce websites or local city/town websites, as they may be looking for content or resources for people who want to kayak in their area. Best of luck to you!

Looking at the footer of your website, I see "Powered by Communications3000 C3MS" From a quick look of the site it links to I'm guessing it's something your webdevelopers have put together rather then an 'Off The shelf" cms so to speak. I would recomend you find an SEO who knows both SEO and some .Net who could communicate with you and your developers to see if it is indeed impossable to do a 301, or if your developers are making excuses/misunderstanding the request/e.t.c. That would probably give a better understanding of the situation. As everyone else has said  it /does/ sound rather odd that a 301 can't be implimented between the various ways of doing it.

Page two correctly uses: rel="prev" href="http://www.buffetdomicilio.com/category/artigos" /> Which indicates to Google it is part of a pagination scheme thus it handles it differently to proper content. You really don't want Google sending traffic to these pages but instead to the actual articles.   In that case, optimizing the title or duplication reduction isn't such a big a deal. It's just one small part on otherwise different pages so you won't get a bad penalty. I wouldn't use the canonical link suggestion as this will effective remove the page from your index.  I assume you want these for spidering so anything that removes them could be an issue.

Yep, a tough one. A good 404 page will still result in the original issue i.e. mounting 404 errors being reported by Google Webmaster. So where to go with this....