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@Irving, George Thanks for your responses. I had no access to my laptop and for some reason couldn't post my reply from Galaxy s2. I stop losing my sleep over it:) Regards, JJ

Just make a new page for every service. There is no reason to use the multisite function or have each keyword on a new domain. Not only will it not benefit you from an SEO standpoint it will also feel disconnected from a user standpoint. Nobody wants to see a "weirdexactmatchdomain.com" with a small amount of content on it, they would rather see all of your services on one complete website.

I would determine a top/important page as one that is not only ranking well for your terms, but pages that may be receiving traffic from other sources. Check out Google Analytics and sort by top pages and filter by source and redirect the ones that are actually seeing inbound traffic.

Today I see my site in cache and you @ Catalyst Online are right  google take some time to display the site. Thanks for the suggestion.

From a strict A/B standpoint where the two variables are: www.domain.com/california www.domain.com/state/california You will see no discernible difference in SEO results. That being said, if you plan to expand the URLs later, i.e. www.domain.com/state/california/santa-monica/our-service-keywords.* then you should probably consider what length they will be and factor that into your decision.

Thanks for the robots.txt help - kind of what I figured it's just never said anything about it before. Now for the 5000+ errors/warnings for the site map, it only allows me to see a few of them - how do I see the rest? the issue with the robot.txt problem is all i can see right now

You are very welcome.

Is this possible that having similar content (90% the same in some pages) is something bad even when they target different countries ? Yes, there was a Panda and EMD update around Sep 27 which could have affected your website traffic. Are they EMD? If not, it could be Panda - which focuses on low quality and duplicate content. Does google send some kind of notification if your site gets penalized ? No, unless there was a manual review of your website - in which case they would send you a notification via Google Webmaster Tools. Re-written all the text, in order to show completely different texts, would it help getting back the organic traffic ? Yup, that's how you recover from Panda (for the most part).

The sub page (both versions). This other version you've just linked is also an issue. There are a number of posts out there about optimizing Joomla! Try this recent one on the YOUmoz blog: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-your-joomla-website-in-11-super-easy-steps.

Don't hide the content - if you have not done it, use microformats to "dress up" your content - this should include hproduct and hreview markups.

Go with a sitemap. Hint it via robots.txt and use a Gzipped SitemapIndex (not a plain sitemap). Make sure that your index files do not contain more than 50,000 URLs. Verify that whatever you submit in the sitemap-index files is not blocked by robots.txt or onpage noindex-tags.

I am using SEOMoz crawler and I am using Dreamwaever. it was Dreamwaever that didn´t do its job. It was supposed to change in all of the documents but of some reason jumped over, not all, but some files. In other words. All ok with me. Sorry.

A 404 error means the page is not found/it doesn't exist. My guess is that you accidentally linked to exampleX.com somewhere on your page with this URL http://www.example.com/www.example.com/exampleX.html. Simply change that to http://www.example.com/exampleX.html. Otherwise, it's hard to tell specifically without seeing the actual link/page so please provide the actual links here or you can PM me if you don't want them to be made public.

Only on Google, Yahoo and Bing are not effected, no updates were made in particular, especially not to every site, but it happened on the 5th around the time of a Google update. also all 4 lost sites were 3 keyword EMD's with dashes, which we are thinking might have been the cause after doing some research on recent updates? The site not effected was not an EMD and was an authoritative original version.