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Order of heading tags is important... use CSS to control size & tags other than headings! Think of a HTML doc as you would any other academic document.. Animals Cats Red Cats Pink Cats Dogs Round Dogs Square Dogs ..you get the idea

To achieve a balance between visual aesthetics and search engine interoperability, you could use a Javascript font renderer like cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ - which will give you nice anti-aliasing. Look at Google Fonts too - http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select I would redesign & work towards getting a H1 on there rather than working backwards

Chances are that if you keep doing what you're doing with the link building and take my advice and suggestions above, then Google will, at some point (impossible to predict when) switch back to your original landing page or list it as well as your homepage. So yes I expect your original landing page to be there again, though can of course be no guarantees, so keep working at it

Here's a YouMoz post that was promoted to the main blog about what someone else did in this situation that may help. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/accidental-noindexation-recovery-strategy-amp-results A couple of preventative steps would have been to make the robots.txt file on the live site read-only so it couldn't have been as easily overwritten, and to use a free service like Pole Position's Code Monitor (https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php) to monitor the contents of your robots.txt file once a day and email you if there are changes. I'd also monitor your dev robots.txt, just to make sure the live site robots.txt doesn't get copied over to dev one day and your dev site gets indexed (I've had that happen!).

You are reading it correctly. Any text prefaced by a # character is ignored. The # symbol indicates a comment. More details are available at http://www.robotstxt.org/

Is there a difference between , and font-weight: bold, in terms of SEO weighting? ****Each search engine is a private company and can choose to weigh things as they see fit. I can share for Google those factors are treated identically. It is likely other search engines treat them the same but I cannot confirm that information. Does font size make a diffence, relative to the average font size of the page? The historic best method to adjust font-size was the use of header tags (h1, h2....h6). This method affects font size and is weighted by Google. If you attempt to manipulate search results by changing font-size (such as font size = 1) then that certainly can impact SEO with a penalty. Google is definitely aware of relative font-size and it likely is a ranking factor. I have seen numerous indications of such, but am not aware of any 100% conclusive statement to that effect.****

Here is my two cents and take it for what it's worth.  We took a .com site written in English and hosted in the U.S., duplicated the website content but redesigned the website.  The duplicated content and new design was then hosted in Germany hoping to target UK and English searches in Europe, the website was a complete flop.  We then took the duplicate content and had a professional translation service convert the exact content on the U.S. website to German and updated the new site and it started performing very well.  We took the same approach in France and our other target markets; however, it didn't work in the UK.

Actually, I tried this: WP 404 Redirection Permanently redirect all 404's to the main blog URL. The primary purpose is to salvage Google Page Rank from missing pages, or non existing pages wordpress generates. Thanks for the attempt Eric. ; ) Cheers

Scott, if you fix the problem by using the global.ax fiile, remeber to the make sure that the 404 page does then retuurn a 404.

Thanks! I would like to 301 to this page http://bligoo.com/explore let me know what you think

Even we are having this problem in our prestashop store. it is showing many duplicate pages but i think this issue is canonical URL issue. we are trying to install a module to rectify. lets see how it goes!!

You're most welcome! Have a good weekend too and lots of success with the cleanup

Thanks for your input. Together with subfolders, we will take your advice and work on getting local links.I guess since we are using subfolders, the local links will benefits the entire domain. Thanks for sharing the link to the whiteboard friday.

Not this time, but will keep it in mind. Thanks again. _Cindy

That's a good sign. Carry out all the above and you'll be back on track swiftly. Hope it all goes well for you

No worries, Sorry - my mistake - I didn't mean Open Site Explorer. You can find the 404 report in your campaign settings in your SEOMoz dashboard. Click Errors and Download as CSV top right. You can sort the CSV in Excel to group all of your 404's and easily find the referral page. If for some reason you can't access the Errors page in your dashboard (still waiting for your report to finish etc), you can do pretty mush the same with software called Xenu Link Sleuth. Cheers,

Thanks Dan, this makes total sense. Kind Regards

Your site should have a 404 page. This is a basic "I am sorry the page you are seeking does not exist" page. It should include your site's normal navigation along with a search function so users can easily find the content they seek.