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Thank you, you're most welcome.

Hi Sha, I'm changing all the file names and we do have a DB behind the site infrastructure (Drupal) but no unique ID so I guess we'll have to do many rules. Thanks for your help Sha.

Thanks for your response. You make some interesting points regarding your competitors ranking despite the Dupe content. Really appreciate your input, Regards Aran

just a thougth, ip number change may of triggered a re crawl, and pages could be doubled up . I remebr ewhen i changed ip numbers rankings disapeared a for a few days.

Thanks for your responses, Ryan and Alan. Ryan's response included a comment about the number of clicks away from the home page. This makes me question my site architecture so I've asked a question about spatial location and site architecture.

Just noticed your reply below, with regards to speeding your WP site up, try a cache plugin such as WP Super Cache - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Actually we are using a cms and what we do is just to redirect it a different page. like mHome.aspx which means that it is a mobile site. Yes put mobile on the title tag.

Report them to google as a spam site

For the future, I'd suggest using something like Code Monitor (https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php) to monitor for any changes to your live or staging robots.txt. I've been in situations where too many people had access to the site that didn't know what they were doing, and getting an alert within 24 hours that someone changed something in robots.txt really saved us.

in a year of 2, will you then decide to make the change? only you know that, it is better to do it sooner than later if you think you may. As for leaking link juice, the best guess is 15% going from the original algo google published, every hop lost 15% I dont think they would of changes this much as changing it can mean huge amounts if calulating, I believe they got it right then and it would still be right. If hops did not lose pr, the caculations of PR would be endless.

It is just telling you that you have canonical tag. It is good to know as a cononical tag that is wrong can do harm. so just knowing that a page has one, can alert a webmaster. Assume you see a canonical tag in a page that you dont remeber puting one, you look and it is pointing at a different page, you then relize you had meant to put in in another page but had put it in the wrong page. if you were not alerted it could of stayed for years doing lots of damage. Image you find that all pages have a cannonical, you find that you had put a canonical tag in the master page and now only one page is in the index, seeing this in the notices can alert you to this early Thats why it is a notice noty a error or warning.

Hi Diane, any news on this? if this helped them please mark this as answered

Thanks Greg! I appreciate it! I will see what happens with the next crawl. Michael

I recently wrote to Disqus to ask how I could make comments on my site indexable.  There is an API that you can use and you can set up a mysql database to store comments on your site.  However, it's not straightforward.  I want to figure it out, but for now I'm waiting for someone else to do the work for me.   However, if you have Disqus on a Wordpress blog then the comments are stored in your database and they are part of your site and as such are indexable and searchable. I would disagree with the statement that comments are not helpful for SEO purposes.  I get a number of searches that were delivered to my site because of content in the comments section.

I will try this now. And Review the crawl report next week. Thank you!

Hi Diane. As I understand it, your site is currently focused on the UK and you have a .co.uk domain. You have acquired the .com domain and wish your site to address an international audience. My suggestion would be to make the change as follows: migrate your existing site to the .com domain. Either the default domain will be UK English, or you would create a folder for the UK.Your new URLs would look like www.intown.com/uk, www.intown.com/es, www.intown.com/fr. Each of these directories would represent a targeted country for which you have localized content. ensure your content for each area is truly localized. First, be sure to use the right dialect of the language. For example, Spanish for Spain is not the same as Spanish for Mexico, There is a significant difference. Next, be sure to use the right monetary units and systems of measurements for the chosen country. Also use the proper meta language tag. Each of these actions is designed to clearly inform your users and Google the content is directed for a specific country. using Google WMT set your geographic target for each country. For example, the /es section would be for Spain. Assuming you performed the other steps correctly this step shouldn't be necessary, but I recommend it because it is easy to do and helps ensure the site is properly directed in case other steps are missed you can use geo-targeting but I suggest only using it on your home page. Offer images of the flags of various countries to allow visitors to select their preferred country. Place this images in a prominent position at the top of your site. while you are working on this migration, keep the new site blocked with robots.txt. Once the new site is up and running, you will need to make the switch. Place a 301 redirect from the old .co.uk domain to the new .com domain. Ensure the 301 is working properly and then (very important) remove the robots.txt block of the .com site. The .com site will now be your new site. It will take about 30 days for the site URLs to be updated in Google SERPs. As a final step, any time you migrate your site you want to ensure all links under your control, both internal and external, point to the new URL. Any signatures, social pages, etc. should all be updated. There will be a minor loss of link juice due to the move which should be easily offset by the new traffic you will receive once you target other countries. As you earn links from the new countries, be sure to obtain them on that country's page rather then the root home page. For example, links from France should ideally go to your /fr home page or one of the French internal pages. Congratulations on obtaining the .com and good luck.

Yes, wise.  Go for it.

I usually do one of these: put the duplicate content in an iframe (ugly and not flexible). I use this for static content like ad spaces load the content async with Javascript. All googlebot will index is an empty div. The user will see the content loaded with JS after the page loaded. In most cases there is no noticeable difference in how the page renders.Very easy to do with Jquery. My favorite solution.

Definitely