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Irving, What do you think would be more appropriate meta keywords: I was thinking something like this: "...content="lipozene, weight loss, lose pure body fat, lipozene review" as our keywords Think this would fare better?

Unfortunately manually.

found this RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !newdomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301] and it worked, thank you guys for your help though!

Hey Ben, Thanks for the reply and I agree with you that is was pretty much coincidental. We had updated quite a few things on the site since so I am assuming that was the cause. Thanks, Charles

I guess it depends on what is the intention behind these pages? Are you attempting to get more traffic for search? Or, are these pages simply for people visiting the site? If it is more about people and not search engines, I wouldn't really worry about the duplicate content issues (provided the pages make sense to users). Adding a nofollow to the links referencing these pages (and a noindex,follow on these pages) will prevent Google from crawling unnecessary pages and indexing unnecessary pages. I've had similar situations come up (it always seems to on large sites). Typically what I've tried to do is identify which pages have the best shot at getting activity within the search results (based on keyword research, link research, etc.). On those pages, I do everything I can to have really unique content that sets those pages apart (I'm talking bigger scale changes, as opposed to geo-targeting changes). For the other pages where there isn't such a great chance with search engines, I use the nofollow tag to prevent Google from accessing those pages. That seems to help keep the focus for SEO on the right pages.

Hi Huey I am agree with Ben's answer 301 redirection is best way to solve this problem. It was happen because your website might be open with or without www. so this code will help you in sticking one domain. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.plugnbuy.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.plugnbuy.com/$1 [L,R=301] Write this code in .htaccess file and upload this file in your FTP Server. After applying this code you have to set preferred same domain via Configuration setting in Google webmaster tool.

Ultimately, the client is paying you for SEO advice, you are providing advice and they are not acting upon it. Explain to them that whilst non of these issues are massive factors, to be able to provide the best possible advice you need to remove the common errors and be working from a solid standpoint. I like the quality metric - if a site has these daft problems, then it's quality is lower and it's chance of hitting a threshold for a problem is more likely. If the duplication of pages / titles becomes rampant, then we get closer to a panda type problem. Simply put, to rank as well as possible, we do everything we can and taking care of the smaller details is an important part of this job so you can do your job properly knowing you are not being held back by simple, easy to fix issues.

It's not ideal but it's also not a deal breaker. Always think from a user perspective, if I search for 'big yellow dogs' then I would like to see a page name that further confirms and helps me pick that page. Big Yellow Dogs - Buy Yellow Dogs Online www.colourfuldogs.co.uk/big-yellow-dogs.html View our range of big yellow dogs and choose from a range of yellows including, sunshine, custard or banana yellow to find the perfect large yellow fellow. Big Yellow Dogs - Buy Yellow Dogs Online www.randomurl.co.uk/colours/dogs/big/type.php?&requestedcolour=y.... View our range of big yellow dogs and choose from a range of yellows including, sunshine, custard or banana yellow to find the perfect large yellow fellow. The first one is just a little more readable and you may win some better anchors if people link to the page organically and it may win a few more clicks and... It's just a tiny bit better and sometimes that is what matters. Hope this helps Marcus

If I click on your "correct" link I'm getting a 404 page. The %0d%0a code represents carriage-return/line feed. Is google webmaster tools reporting any problems? It looks like there's a problem with the way that URLs are being encoded. It looks like the urls are correct on your site (/800512027 instead of /%0D%0A2027). If Moz is the only place showing these problems (and the URLs look find when I've looked at the site) then I'd report this as a problem to the SEOmoz help folk.

Site-map is very important for telling Google about our pages,  Using site-maps has many benefits, not only easier navigation but we can get better visibility by search engines. You can submit around 35000 pages in your site-map.  It is only way that you can immediate say to search engine about any changes in your site. Your question is about including product pages in site-map right? so ya, you can submit your product pages in site-map, if you are adding your product pages search engine will recognize your pages,  so it will increase your site visibility and visitors.

Okay I just did a test crawl with 'Screaming Frog' SEO spider - no issues Robots.txt - not blocking it. Headers - not blocking them. Therefore definitely look at Keri's post as it's something SEOmoz's end, so check out that thread for some possible answers

I agree one hundred percent with Irving and Joseph. I would also ask you how your site is ranking and how old is the site and these URLs. You loose the age aspect of the URLs when you change them. You do gain the advantage and that's what you have to measure, the risk vs reward. Also, do you have inbound links / deep links to these pages ? And I am pretty sure you have the 301s in mind, I thought I'll mention, just in case. I hope this helps.

look at your site performance report in google webmaster tools. all tools reports results differ, at the end of the day it's what Google sees that matters. use the pingdom type tools to identify things to fix to increase performance, use Google's wmt as the gauge to see if your changes are making a positive impact, takes a few days to see the speed report update itself.

Hi Pete, both answers by Greg and Malcom are correct. More over, take into account that any territorial domain name, as the .co.uk, automatically geo-target the given country territory. That is the reason why .co.uk sites do not perform well on Google.com The best solution is to have separate domain names for the two territories and implement the use of the rel=alternate hreflang in order to suggest to Google what URL show in the SERPs of the two domain, being both in English. Be aware that - even though Google sometimes suggests to use that tag along with the cross domain canonical one, that is true just for those pages of both sites, which have exactly the same content. Said that, remember always to geo-localize the content for US and UK in order to make them different (language, currency, address, phone numbers).

Thanks Alice, great advice Dan