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It might be the plugin.  But google is doing this to some of my pages and they are in hand-coded html.  Google is also doing this to my adsense. Google has taken to monkeying with our title tags. They are stinking up my message and changing my carefully considered marketing.

Yes, That is the best thing you can do. Because seems there have some other issues in configs. And we can not see from here about your all the configs. Anyway the codes we have given you will successfully work once you solve your other problems. Best Regards Prasad

I haven't created one - no.

I did it to two client sites and neither lost any rankings. I used the Change Permalink Helper plugin, which made the redirects seamless. The most unfortunate thing about changing URL permalinks is the fact that if you have social sharing buttons on your posts, all the counts get reset to zero. I must add that just because I didn't lose rankings doesn't mean there's not a chance, albeit a small one, that you will.

Thanks a lot for this. That video couldn't have been more timely!

Did you create these links?  Likely not. Every site has a bunch of aggregator sites that link to them and Google knows that.  What Google is looking for when divvying out penalties is obvious attempts at manipulation. I wouldn't worry about them!

Hey Sjmarketing - did this issues resolve for you? I got an alert through Webmaster tools and have experienced a huge drop in traffic since....

Your web server logs keep track of every file that is serves and to whom it provides the data. The raw log files are difficult to read unless you are used to viewing that type of code. The process varies based on your server type. Ask your web host or developer for guidance.

Thanks for your answer. To be more specific I got to ask this direct question: Is it better to keep https for Transactions pages only while keeping the rest of the website as http? This is for a Travel Reservations website. Looking at Major Travel websites like Travelocity and Orbitz they are designed this way.

Hi Dan, You only need to use one of the tags ( <video:player_loc>or</video:player_loc> <video:content_loc>).</video:content_loc> This is what I'd use: <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1">http://player.vimeo.com/video/24580638</video:player_loc> Davinia

Just because there is a reindex, does not guarantee that the rankings change that quickly. You should watch it and see. One thing to remember, make sure you are using a non personalized search when looking or run the rankings in moz. I would watch it over a few weeks and see if you see movement.

I might do a combo of adding a page to the company website's about section, as the company site already has domain authority and could easily rank well. For example, if you do a search for "Rand Fishkin" his SEOmoz bio is the first thing to show up in the SERPS: http://www.seomoz.org/team/randfish. Make sure to link that page to any other page on the web about her. It also wouldn't hurt to set up a simple website with her matching name domain (for example mine is http://jensablelopez.com - that other pesky Jennifer Lopez has all other domains taken up.) and make sure that site links to the company about page as well as social channels. But if you want the images to change, then make sure that the images on the company website and the new domain, as well as the social sites really, are all optimized for her exact name. Make sure the image name is her name and the alt text is her name and any links. I'd also set up a google+ account and add a few images of her that she's ok with and tag herself in them. Google is showing G+ images in image search now and this is a good way to get your photos out there. Hope that helps!

I would have stopped at "Website tonight". You can check Google itself to see if they are indexing both. Just search for both pages. I believe that website tonight would allow you to add meta tags, so you could try using a canonical tag. Overall this is probably a minor SEO error. Build all your links to one of the two and Google will figure it out. And GET AWAY FROM WEBSITE TONIGHT!

I think it's hard to make that assumption. Maybe they're an "innovation management" company that provides services and software. Yes, I agree that the home page can target more than one term but segmenting keywords out into hyper-relevant long tail content pages can only help. Potentially, both those pages can rank for the same term.

As Irvine Weiss is mentioning the way to do it is to pick your best page and do a canonical tag directing to it. here is a great read:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

William- No guarantees in life.  I have helped a bunch of companies with reconsideration. I would recommend the following service to help you identify the most likely unnatural links:  www.linkdelete.com.  Once they generate a report for you, it will rank each link as most likely to be creating problems.  You will then work through the list and figure out which links are more likely to be creating problems. Once you identify the links, they will submit the requests for you and will follow up to notify you which links have been removed and which haven't. One helpful hint as you go through the process is identifying which keywords have been affected the most in SERP's. Then cross referencing them with the links that have been built and then cross referencing those results with the ranking from linkdelete. One last hint....when you file for reconsideration after you have removed the links make sure you understand that Google will be manually reviewing the request. So make sure you do a couple of things before the reconsideration request and in the reconsideration request: Make sure your site is on and offpage optimized to the best of its ability. No keyword stuffing. Dont be doing alot of SEO right before the reconsideration request. In the request, make sure you are as transaprent as possible. if you hired someone to do linkbuilding...tell them. Provide them with the data of the links you identified as bad and that they have been removed. Make sure you arent writing a novel. be clear and concise and make it easy to read. Good luck. Hope this helps.. If you need more help let me know. Mark