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Thanks Crimson Penguin (really hope that's your real name!) I have used sitemapdoc.com in the past, only problem is it limits you to 500 URLs.  Really wish G Site would do a Mac version - same with Xenu, there's just nothing out there to do a job as well as those two on the Mac. Cheers for your feedback - hoping somebody else can come up with something golden?

It's not usually a big issue these days, but I'd agree with Zach that the canonical is probably your best bet. Since it's all one page, you just have to put the canonical on either version - they both resolve to the same place. To Google, any URL variation is a new "page", but there's just one page of HTML/code on your site. Make sure your internal links are consistent. The most common problem is when you're linking to both versions. It's not a disaster, but it can send mixed signals to crawlers (including Google's and ours').

Hi, Have you looked at using an SEO add-on such as CDSEO Pro? From a quick search it looks like it should give you a bit of extra control over the on-page SEO issues such as the H1 tags - http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/cdseo-pro-x-cart-seo.html If you're experienced with editing template files you could look at adding them yourself manually: http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?p=278293#post278293 Hope that helps. Thanks, Greg

I would go with no index on the result page simply because those search pages can vary quite a bit depending on what people search for.

Thanks Adam

Google "strongly" suggests not using and/or removing meta refresh tags: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022447.html Although they may pass some juice, it's not nearly as effective as a 301, especially for a site migration. In my experience, a page that tells visitors they will soon be redirected risks high bounce rates and abandonment. Really like Zachary's suggestion. A brief message, based on referrer data (Zachary may be able to help with this) seems to be the way to go, and safely delivers your visitors where they need to be.

Adam thanks for reply. I've a dozen sites. But site is the best I've and I'm not cribbing about traffic drop for my other sites during this Penguin update. I did buy cheap links for $10-20 but I did for some other sites too. Later I quit doing all that SEO since I understood that doing such activity is of no use. That was around 10-12 months back. I don't think backlinks are such a serious concern which will entail a penalty here. I don't do SEO anymore as I don't have time for my dozen sites. Seomoz is not correctly showing on page optimization like keyword optimization. It is showing many errors in crawl diagnostics. But those are from the PHPBB forum and every PHPBB webmaster would get it which is ignorable but Seomoz is highlighting it in Red. At the same time I've another Mybb forum and is also getting similar errors here but it's traffic has been increasing during past two months. On-page got a D for home page. Overall there is no serious issue I could see here. There is one silly critical report I see. Page title is: "Choose Your Payment Gateway in 9 Easy Steps" and On-Page Keyword Usage for: payment gateway india I see that "payment gateway" indeed is there in title and India should be assumed from TLD .in of website - what's the point of calling it a critical factor! embed

Hi again, Cesar I think your problem is not different order of keywords but duplicated content. If you have two websites with the same content it can be a problem and it was probably the reason of Panda influence on your website. let me understand, do you have: http://www.example.com and http://example.com  with the same content? more: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=duplicated+content http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=www+or+non+www In my opinion you should choose better site (www or non-www) by checking a value in OSE and finally do a 301 redirection of lower ranked to higher ranked and do the same in GWT ...that  means choose higher ranked as your primary. Marek

Argh. It's too late for 2) - totally missed that. Would it help to redirect the sitemap to the new domain's site map instead?

I really recommend you watching the video I posted below, it is a SEOmoz webinar on Rich Snippets. The markup should be on the product pages themselves, the offurl tag could complicate things. The other questions that you have I'm not too sure of. I hope this helps. Zach microformats-real-life-use-cases microformats-real-life-use-cases

Jamie is right. You will experience much larger competition in google.com than google.com.au based on the market size alone. Couple this with the fact that your particular industry is also very competitive. Yes, it will probably help to have the .com when trying to rank in google.com but as Jamie rightly states, there are other elements of your SEO strategy that need attention first. As well as your on-page issues, having had a quick look at your backlink profile, I would suggest that you do not have anywhere near enough links to compete with the major players in your market such as cashbackforex.com Adam.

I doubt that very strongly. Your breadcrumb displaying in this manner is a bug or loophole in the way Google displays snippets. It's not going to affect rankings.

change this line from RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] to RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.domain.com$1 [L,R=301]

no not really damned if you do, damned if you don't... this problem effects us all, we all want to rank for our primary keywords. if you can't target both, chose your primary target for your homepage and target and internal landing pages for others keywords, ok the page won't be as authoritative, but i have seen on many occasions sub pages out ranking home pages for specific keywords don't give up bud, just work harder and smarter for those other keywords... and don't forget the long tail

I'd say do your best to get the links removed/fixed at the other end but other than that just leave it. So long as you're returning a proper 404 you're doing the right thing (on paper).