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Hi Keith, OK great thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try. Sorry to bother you again but have another quick question as I'm struggling to exclude child URLs from the sitemap.  Have posted another question here, if you are interested in answering yet another question! Thanks, Mark

I had noticed the same thing on a number of my pages.  Like you we got an initial fluctuation for our main keywords after penguin, but after time they stabilized, and many of them returned to the #1 position (even though I still notice jumps of 3-5 positions daily). But where we really seem to have lost the most traffic were the long-tail keywords.  Now, these were not necessarily keywords I had optimized for specifically, but they were ones we had ranked for in the top 5.  For example if I optimized for "nice big blue widget" I was also showing up at or near the top for "nice big widget blue".  Now I am nowhere to be found. It seems like google stopped giving credit for related words.  They are only ranking for the specific words you optimize for and not for anything else.  Not sure if it is only me, but I have noticed this on a number of our sites. Not sure if it helps, but just to let you know you are not the only one seeing this.

Thank you for your response. Well this is the problem. I have no messages in webmaster tools or any issues flagging up. Do you think it is down to the links as I am still ranking for certain keywords and for my brand.?

Some additional notes... Traditionally, Google hasn't followed javascript, but they are getting much better at using it for link discovery. Just a few weeks ago Matt Cutts made a video in which he recommended making your javascript more readable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8yTn_HLDaJs And some evidence in the wild about Google becoming more script friendly: http://www.webpronews.com/is-googlebot-getting-more-human-like-2012-05 That said, it's still by far better for SEO purposes to ensure that your links are HTML based. Although Google may still discover javascript links, it's unknown what link attributes like anchor text and PageRank pass through them. Best practices, for now, still say to use regular HTML links.

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Hi Stefan, If Google is finding those https pages, instead of a noindex, nofollow tag, I'd try on of the following: Redirect https pages to http via 301s (preferred) Add a canonical tag pointing to the http version (as Malcolm's suggested) By using these methods, you have the best chance of preserving your rankings for any of the https that appear in the SERPS, and you also preserve any link equity that is flowing through them. If Google is finding https pages of your site, then there is the possibility that some link juice is currently flowing through them. This also solves the problem of any visitors accidentally landing on https that you don't want to be there. Although in reality, there is nothing wrong with this. Today, entire sites are https and rank quite well. It can take a long, long time for Google to remove URLs from their results. Before you can request removal, the URL either has to return a 404 or a 410 status code, or be blocked by robots.txt. Since neither of these are a good option for you, I'd stick with the 301 or the canonical solution. Best of luck with your SEO!

As long as the search engines can crawl it, I doubt that one format would cause your content to be considered "more unique" than the other - it either is unique or it isn't, and the content itself is the same either way.  Since it seems like the drop-down is a more user-friendly solution, that's what I'd do. If you're concerned that your content won't be robust enough to rank for a term, I'd consider adding some additional, relevant text that contains the keywords you're targeting rather than trying to tweak the format of the same text - maybe via a blog post?  But if you are finding your content to be unique enough now, in the tables, without adding extra text then I don't think switching it to be in a drop-down is going to wreck that.

In general terms there is no significant benefit to hosting in country, it was thought that it mattered more ages ago. You should though host on different IP's, if you have a hosting package hosting all of your multiple .tld domains on the same IP there will be little or no benefit to link building. So in essence it would be good practice to host on different servers and why not in country if you are hosting that domain?

Much better - but ... I dont think anyone want a "cheap honeymoon" (maybe this is a language-thing). If i translate to my native language and back - "Honeymoon offers"  or "Honeymoon deals" would be enough. A "cheap deal"  or a "cheap offer" is kinda the same thing, just double effect ... (in my native language, that is. something "cheap" is logically also a "deal" or an "offer". But if you characterize something as being "cheap", it is not worth the money ... ) But go through your incoming search-terms in Google Analytics to find the terms that give you best CTR and has highest conversion rate. No need to be #1 on a search term that dont convert ...

When you say "delete", do you mean delete it from the home button (and just use the root version), or delete the page? Keep in mind that the "index.html" page also drives the root version of the site ("www.example.com/"), so you definitely don't want to delete that file. Whether you use 301-redirects or canonical tags (either should be ok, but it sounds like the canonical tag would be easier for you to implement), it is important to use a consistent path. So, you do need to change the button link to match the canonical version of the URL. Don't do this until after you've got either the 301 or canonical tag in place.

You can also confirm duplicate content (titles, descriptions and URLs) with either; Google webmaster tools - they will tell you most all errors you need to take action on screaming frog seo spider You can also check out this post I just did about WordPress SEO to get some more in depth info on finding duplicate issues with WordPress blogs (I assume you're on WordPress). Thanks!! -Dan

Completely agree with Ryan - assuming it's not the first sentence or an extremely short article you're absolutely fine. Duplicate lines are very common - most notably as a quote (think how many times you see this in news publications).

That makes sense. So basically the answer is that Google is smart enough to tell that it is your actual business name, and not a website you bought to rank with.  Thanks!

Search engines can and sometimes do crawl JavaScript, but you shouldn't count on them to do so.