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Well, after trying out all 3 of the options i posted, none worked and one threw a server error. BUT, alas... I found the correct way to do it: <code class="htaccess" title="in your .htaccess file">RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code> This is the correct way to forward all non www requests to www.yoursite.com No need to put your domain name, simply add the code above to a .htaccess file on your server and viola! If someone wants to redirect all www to non www then the code would be: ``` > ``` > ``` > <code class="htaccess" title="in your .htaccess file">RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^my-domain\.com$ [NC] > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://my-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code> > ``` > ``` ``` ``` <code class="htaccess" title="in your .htaccess file">and of course replace the my-domain with your domain ;)</code> ``` ```

I would check where those 500-errors originate from. Your website does not handle errors well do - i.e. the link to "/About-Us/Partner-Profiles/Partner-Profiles/Anna-Mosey.aspx" throws a 500 and should really be 404's or 410's. When I do the search (from South Africa), the search term is on page 1, 4th position. I would perhaps have a look at validating HTML as well - found it quite strange that the anchor-texts in the have so much trailing whitespace.

And Google has additional ways to identify sites all related, such as everything in the same GWT account, sites having the same Google Analytics master account, etc. Doesn't mean they use it for ranking, but they have ways beyond just IP to see things are related.

Hey Gaurav, I agree with danatanseo. Just watch your SERPS for the next couple days and see how the traffic and rankings evolve. How is your traffic and ranking for other keywords besides this ? I also noticed that the page 1 for Hindi Comedy is 8 video results with just 2 other results. Do you remember if that's how the SERPS were before Sep 12 ?

Thanks Gerd, Marisa & Nakul. All good feedback. I asked this yesterday with another layer pertaining to mobile and I think it complicated the question too much for anyone to understand or answer. product.com/shop is the ideal solution and that will require the investment in a new "product.com".  Forgoing the SERP for buyproduct.com is likely the best option anyways considering it will be gone once investment is made. Appreciate your responses.

Irving, should we also submit removal request for these pages? Thank you

I personally would change the form into a HREF - this would reduce page-size on the form-elements by 50% (i.e. 40 x 195 bytes). i.e.  I have not found that the amount of links on a page drastically affects link authority of other links (typically your important links would be structured above the product listing anyway)

Ok.  I'll get to work on it.  Thanks again.

Hi Pieter, They are google local listing results, on a mobile device the number is displayed as a call button. You will need to setup a Google Places account (which is now integrated with Google+) and get it to rank in order to show up with a call button in the SERP's. I did a blog post on Google Places Optimisation that you might find useful. Keith

Here is SEOmofo's article on the (not so) recent change. It is safer to limit your characters to 70 rather than 77 as some titles that are 77 characters are more likely to get truncated in the SERPs. The SEOmofo snippet tester is good because it factors in pixel width rather than character length.

Definitely deal with the security issues!  Good find there... Regarding the client who wants to republish the same article on multiple sites, I think that noindexing it on all but the original site is perfectly fine. Or, alternatively, place a canonical tag on the duplicate sites to let Google know where the true source lies.

Thank you, Phil!  Makes sense now!

I think if the site in question is not an established news site (appearing in Google News results) then it won't do a thing...  Of course, a blogger that scoops other "real journalists" and is heavily cited ought to at least give it  a try!  If the blog is later given News (Publisher) authority, that standout article could be valuable.

Yup, if you've got the same product content with multiple URLs, that's the exact definition of duplicate content. Simple solution: set rel="canonical" on all of these to aim towards the page/URL you're going to target for ranking in Search. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advanced-relcanonical-http-headers

Hi Imre, by all means if you'd like to send me more detais via pm so I can see what you are talking about exactly, then feel free to do so. Although I feel that my earlier advice will still be true. The anchor (sitelink title) is automatically generated by an algorithm and not manually edited (as yet). I have seen some pretty random sitelink titles for other sites. I have even seen sitelinks where the title has been taken from some random piece of code on the site. Unfortunately, without knowing the exact details of the algorithm, there is very little you can do to influence the anchors other than what Google outlines in their guidelines (which is very little). Like I said previously, if the title is that problematic and you want it gone, then your only option is to demote the whole sitelink.

Possible Solitions for your problem: .htaccess authentication blocking robots.txt http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/server-technical-administration-tips-and-queries/10892-htaccess-authentication-blocking-robots-txt.html 301 redirect. How to make an exception for the robots.txt http://forum.cs-cart.com/topic/23747-301-redirect-how-to-make-an-exception-for-the-robotstxt/ 1. Canonical robots.txt http://digwp.com/2011/03/htaccess-wordpress-seo-security/ General .htaccess tutorials: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.htmlhttp://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html