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Try changing mysite.com/index.php to mysite.com directly in the database. Backup first.

Hi, I just had a quick look at your site and it seems fine, if you have found these through semoz.org under notices this is just to let you know they are there not that they are causing a problem. Kyle

There is a geolocation method/API in HTML5, but you won't be allowed to automatically get it, due to privacy issues - read here: http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html. Don't let that put you off though, offering location-specific services is an incentive for people to let their location be revealed. All the best with your international project

This was indeed the problem - such a simple issue, but helps us in future to be wary of that stumbling block Thanks!

Yep it is different! If you prefer the new version of the URL that is non-www then i would highly recommend using 301 Redirection from www to non-www pages. And your issues will be resolved in days... On my personal website i did the same as i prefer the www version for my site!

Hi Scott, Let me be very specific about what we're talking about. To be clear, no you can't get penalized for too much internal exact match anchor text, but you can hurt your rankings. It's very common to have site-wide internal anchor text on your website, all with the same anchor text, all pointing to the same page - especially if it's in the navigation. For example, SEOmoz has literally 100,000 links pointing to it's tools page with the anchor text "research tools" That said, it's best to vary your anchor text the best you can, and be careful where you place it. Sitewide anchor text in your footer is probably the least valuable spot (and potentially the most harmful) followed by the sidebar and header. The best anchor text is often editorial links within the main text body, using natural, non-repeating phrases. Hmmm... now that I read your question again, it probably does look unnatural if every blog post has the same anchor text in it, pointing to your homepage. Best to clean that up. And check out this latest Whiteboard Friday on internal linking. Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!

Thank you guys. That answered my question.

Hi Irving, Thanks for your reply.  I will go ahead and speak to my programmer about implementing the NOINDEX, FOLLOW and Rel=Cannonical parameter.  I paid Yoast for an analysis and of course they recommended their plugin. My programmer tried to implement it, but he said the plugin did not work with templates we were using for implementation of local city code we have.  Additionally, the Yoast team said their plugin doesn't work with forums ("as Wordpress doesn't contain a forum and it is unreasonable for the Yoast plugin to support another plugin."  So we would have to back out code we have to integrate our forum into our sitemap.  I don't know what we would do if we used the Yoast plugin.  It was getting very complicated.

Subdomains generally don't pass any authority, link juice etc to the TLD, Rand did a Whiteboard Friday that briefly covered this a while ago (see http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday) I am curious, if you didn't want user created sites to be associated with your TLD why didn't you set up a different domain for user created sites? I personally think it is morally wrong to try and stop Google indexing them. So, if you don't want these associated with you or your TLD I would set up a new domain eg yourbreezi.com and 301 any sites that have been set up to the new domain and make sure that any new user sites are set up under the new domain. In truth I'm not sure it is too much to worry about, after all Wordpress.org uses subdomains for most of its hosted blogs and it doesn't seem to have done them too much harm!! Hope that helps

If you want to block the /mobile folder from being crawled you would need to set up a robots.txt file and input this text: User-agent: * Disallow: /mobile Personally, I would use the rel=canonical tag and tell search engines that the preferred version of the page would be the non-mobile version. You can learn more about rel=canonical here... http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Perhaps you should simply say if it is NOT the new site, then redirect to the new site, rather than if it IS the old site, then redirect to the new site... RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.newsite.com$ [NC]  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$ [L,R=301] This way you also handle the non-www to www redirect. There is about an 80% chance something is wrong in that code, but let's pretend it is perfect. k thx.

We just found this, which may be helpful. It was exactly what I was looking for. http://www.monperrus.net/martin/list+of+robot+user+agents

Also worth remembering that if your content eventually changes on the new page, the old canonicalization tag will no longer apply as it will now be pointing to different content.

Glad I could help!

agree, the homepage has an issue should rank first and the homepage indexing is the problem i believe he is asking about. doing a query for the domain name you see this is the URL that is showing http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com/ not http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com so http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com/ probably has or had the title tag "Oxygen Concentrators" and no meta description so that is why you are not seeing the title tag and meta description as seen in the source of this page http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com, it's a different indexed page in Google. a) 301 redirect the / to the non slash version b) make sure you are linking to the non / version in sitemap.xml files c) make sure the homepage logo and other places on the site that are linking to the homepage are doing so without the slash at the end e) add the canonical tag to the homepage without the slash in it f) when doing link building link to the homepage (if you must link to the homepage) without the slash. g) slash of no slash it doesn't matter, just do it one way and keep it consistent thumbs down that answer i dare you lol

Penalty can be limited and i have seen websites that drop its ranking for few keywords or few areas of the website got hit by the update! so its fairly possible!

Good eyes--Fixed!

I agree with Jonathan on this. Go for the long term strategy and build authority on just one domein instead of splitting everything up into small websites.

Strange. How about something like this: RewriteRule ^folder_B/(.*)$ /folder_A/index.php [R=301,L] I'm not an expert in RegEx or Rewrite rules, so there could be som errors in there Good luck!