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LOL thanks!

If the two guides are going to be written from scratch and have different information, then I don't think you have anything to worry about. If sections of them are the same, that's fine.

Thank you for your answer. I convinced our IT team to put build the title field in our CMS to be able to write our own titles. I was very skeptical of this client side javascript solution too. Now I can work with confidence.

Thanks for you help with this Marcus - I'll certainly address the content and have a look at the link profile and remove any dodgy links and hopefully that will help! Marcus

If your theme is your property i.e custom design then I'd recommend you start by e-mailing the website and asking them to remove your property, then send a DMCA to their host. Finally if all else fails one to Google but be sure you've got proof that you own the design in question. You can read more about the DMCA rules for Web Designs here - http://www.digital-web.com/articles/dmca_and_take_down_notices/

Closest easy option I could find in my theme settings was to limit the content excerpt word count to 1 word....

Hi Diane, there are several reasons that can cause a ranking drop, usually it requires some analysis of your back links, anchor text, content, competitors and etc . Only after that possible to give correct answer.. If you have Google Analytic installed than you may see when exactly, what date the site started to drop. Based on that day possible to predict what caused the ranking drop. It could be Panda or Penguin filter or something else...

The danger of the disvow tool is that it is possible to disavow links that weren't harming your site. If you disavowed a number of decent links it could explain losing some indexation. My other thought is perhaps the deindexation is part of a penalty that you have yet to be lifted. Did you file another reconsideration request? Sometimes, if you're lucky, they do give you some useful feedback.

Yes.  You can find a helpful example of markup for multiple reviews at the bottom of the schema.org Review documentation. Another resource that might be helpful is this SEOmoz post from last year: The Lowdown on Structured Data and Schema.org - Your Questions Answered!

Here is my simplistic take: Create a logical site hierarchy that works for UX. Don't worry about link juice to pages like the contact page. Focus on linking to your most important (high ranking, high converting, revenue earning) pages from the home page and other high level pages.

You're very welcome... I'm glad I could help

Becareful setting up a .com/.net etc with the same name as the .co.uk you wanted. Check first that the brand name is not trademarked and then still you can run in to problems. Do you really want to register a .com and then have a % of your clients type .co.uk and go to the other site?

Nofollow is no longer a way to block indexing of internal links. External yes, internal no. Chad's answer about canonicals is a good one. Depending on how/why the duplicate pages are created/required example, sort orders or page 2, page 3, page 4 of the same page, you also have a couple of other options: Managing url paramaters in Google Webmaster Tools http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687 Googles rel next and rel prev tags http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Mike, Thank you!!  I am looking into the widgets now to get this sorted out. Thanks again!

Hey There What Barry says is true - you can throw anything in there and it will load, as long as the category is at the end. But yes, for certain, in your case I would 301 redirect /shirts to /clothes/shirts (and all other categories). Crawl the site with Screaming Frog and keep an eye on 404 errors in Webmaster Tools for anything you might have missed. I don't think there's any issue in regards to duplicate content. -Dan

Hi There Here's what I would do; 1. Set up the new WordPress site exactly how you want it to appear. Use the best URL structure that makes sense - don't worry about what it was on the old site.  In most cases, the way WordPress does it with parent pages is totally fine. 2. In excel - make a column all the pages on your old web site - you can use Screaming Frog to crawl the site and do this. Then, in the next column, match the old pages with the corresponding new pages from the WordPress site. The URLs are going to be different but that's ok. 3. Last step - when you make the new WordPress site live, you just need to 301 redirect the old URLs from Dreamweaver to the new one for WordPress. A 301 redirect is something that directs users to the new updated page. You can do a 301 redirect with the Redirection plugin for wordpress. What you end up with, is a new site with new URLs for each page - but the old pages get redirected to the correct new ones. Hopefully that makes sense? And very sorry this question was not picked up sooner! -Dan