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Thanks for the answers guys - both helpful.

Thanks @Textmarketing. The result you got is what we've been able to replicate most often by playing around with geo. But, occasionally, they'll get an individual member listing (see my screenshot), which is what they're trying to avoid.

Sounds like a good idea. How to poke a listing. Sign into your Google Places account,  click edit, DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING, but hit submit. Google reps have actually recommended poking a listing on occasion (maybe every few weeks or once a month) helps to keep the listing fresh. Sometimes it clears up data issues, so it might be worth trying, in your case. Hope this helps!

Just in case the question of site hosting is still under discussion, Bernie, I'd say you're absolutely right to be concerned about the website being hosted on the same server as sensitive client data. This is assuming they are actually hosting the website on the same operating system as the other apps. This situation is EXACTLY what Virtual Servers have been invented for. They allow complete separation of different server instances, several of which can hosted on the same physical server hardware at the same time (so one piece of hardware can actually host several virtual servers). The security aspect of this is huge. The harm that would come to the company if they had to disclose their client data had been hacked vastly outweighs the little bit of extra effort to maintain an additional virtual server for website hosting. On a purely practical basis, the reality is that webservers often run into load issues, glitches, urgent security patches etc that require the server to be rebooted. This is far more likely to happen to webservers than application servers. There's no reason why these reboots should have to take down the other client apps in the process. I've known companies running all on one server to avoid implementing patches because they were afraid the patches might break custom apps. As a result, the unpatched website got hacked, causing massive downtime for both website and apps. So yea - if they're running everything under one server instance, they're begging for trouble (and breaking industry best practices). If they're running all on one server but with the apps and website on different virtual servers (sometimes called virtual machines) they're fine. Hope that gives you a little more ammunition. Paul

Hi Vac, send me a private message and in m y free time I'll be glad to help you, if I can condense the redirects in just one or two rules I'll definitely do that. However I think you don't have to redirect all your 404s. (further reading here) It's natural for a site to have 404s you need to redirect only pages which are actually going elsewhere (as the redirect term indicates), for expired content or not available pages, you'll better create a customized 404 page to help UX on your site.

Me too have the same issue ! but not indexed in the Google ! but URL parameters in Google Webmasters shows there are 5K errors ! Should i use the URL Parameters settings or which one ? Also make sure replytocom links are not blocked using Robots.txt, as it will stop Google bots from crawling and this your links won’t get deindexed. This is one mistake which I did, and later after removing replytocom parameter from robots.txt file, I was able to get most of my replytocom links deindexed. These are warning by the blogger ! http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-fix-replytocom-links-issue-in-wordpress.html - he showed how to do that ! but my problem is different - It's Good that it's not indexed but i don't want to take any risk ! how to avooid them for future ! Someone else told me here that some plugins are doing/helping for you ! and not seen in your Robot.txt ! Confused confused ! so much confused ! Please help me !

Hi Scott, when did you set up your 301? If you look at the supplementary index, you'll find both your pages the one ending with the / and the legacy one. I'm seeing that google still have the cache of you non-trailing slash page in their index since the last time they cached that page was on March 2nd. I saw that you set up correctly the 301, so it probably will be just a matter of time that google will drop the old page and leave only the new "slashed" one..

Thanks, it seems to be resolving itself

Thank you Dr. Pete - exactly what I needed to know!

You can do the inbound link check right here using SEOMoz's Open Site Explorer tool to check for links to the dev site, whether it's in a subdomain, subfolder or a separate site. Good luck! Paul

The 301 redirects are NOT needed. Just make sure that your title tags target your keywords and that they are at the front of your title.

If you believe your site's ranking is being harmed by low-quality links you do not control, you can ask Google not to take them into account when assessing your site. Use this tool... https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?pli=1 Hope that helps!

Again, a linking penalty is unlikely if you haven't had a drop on a Penguin date.  I don't nofollow links from my blog.  "Sites under my control" is a tough one.  I'd probably have to have a closer look to know.  (If you would like me to, you can contact me via the email address in my profile).  This sounds like a case where there may be more than one factor involved in the traffic drop.  Adding good quality content and links could be the solution, or there may be a site structure problem or something else that is causing the issue.

Hey thanks!

Thanks for the quick response....I'm starting to feel like in on the way to the zoo I also posted this on the google webmaster forum and two issues came up: to non-follow outgoing links (affiliate or ones that look paid) big increase in backlinks since early march using this tool: https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer/referring-domains?folder=&q=dashinfashion.com&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dashinfashion.com%2F&IndexDataSource=F mainly from my network and blog (not sure why this happened, I did update links to new urls on new site). Does SEOMOZ have a tool to see the history of backlinks in a graph? increase in backlink issue brought up the recommendation to non-follow links from blog and network So my big question is the non-follow outgoing link issue. I run a kids fashion magazine and have pages on each designer - approx 450. Most of these links are not paid, as it is a resource for our readers. So....my question is should rel="nofollow" most of these links, all of these links, only those that are an affiliate link? (My affiliate links will be set as redirects from an internal link). Also, from external blog and network, should all of the links back to the main site be rel="nofollow". If not, is this considered spam / penguin? Thanks so much!

Thanks so much Alan for this great response. While I am not as technically savvy as you and Jason, I knew that I shouldn't 100% rely on Pingdom either, so I am very familiar with the other tools you mentioned and use them routinely. Since my hands are tied as I have no access to either server or source code. as I mentioned to Jason, I will be taking these suggestions to our IT Director to see how far I can get in addressing these issues. I am on the PageSpeed warpath, and really appreciate your generous response. I'll let you know what happens! Dana

Absolutely agree with you, Mike! I already removed unnecessary ".com" and agree those tag page titles does not give much idea for visitors. Unfortunately, I do not have much control over those tag pages titles in WP.

Hi there, Bing is all about good, original contents, authoritative inbound links and well structured webpages. If you want to be optimized in Bing, you may want to focus on those. Here are some useful information on Bing optimization. Search engine optimization on Bing How to build quality contents Hope that helps!

That's correct.  I don't know the specifics, however in this case, I would assume the reduced frequency/volume would mean less trouble dealing with the hosting provider's internal challenges.

Consider using .htacces to rewrite the url?