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I definitely agree going down to one domain is a good plan and janmi is correct. You will want to make sure you redirect your specific language site to the relevant directory. In regards to increasing your rankings, focus on your on-page optimizations for each language. I am currently going through this myself and got some great feedback a couple weeks ago: http://www.seomoz.org/q/international-seo-3 In regards to tracking your success, use your analytics to track the increase of traffic per language with an advanced segment of non-paid search. Good luck!

Thanks for all your responses guys - i get it, cheers..

Hi Woj, I agree with Ryan.

Hey guys, thanks for the responses. Appreciate it. I shall instruct my developer to put it in a JS file instead of having it on the

I wish you the best of outcomes!

Google makes about 500 changes to their algorithms each year. It is likely that either one of those changes, or a change made with your site or backlinks, caused the change in results. If you can share the URLs and keywords involved then more direct feedback can be offered.

I've got a similar issue with my CMS solution where the .htaccess file creates the pages in the system but the 301 redirect page will actually show the query string. such as: site.com/oldpage should go to site.com/new-page-format.php however if i type in site.com/oldpage i'm actually seeing site.com/new-page-format.php?htaccess_query_string I'm going to implement a rel=canonical string for the site and see what that does. So depending on how your cms solution is built the 301 redirect could cause additional problems. As for the duplicate content issue I think it would be best to get that cleaned up.

This should not have an influence on your linkjuice, rankings or traffic as long as you don't make any changes to the files that are on your server. People move from one host to another all of the time.  Google understands this.  Also hosts move websites from one machine to another all of the time. Google understands this. The only caution that I might have is.. are you moving to a different country?

You do often see that if the engine knows about the URL but isn't able to crawl the page. It should eventually drop out. If you have control of the site you can also go into GWT and request removal of that URL from the index, since it's already returning a 404.

Happy to help!

You are most welcome! Appreciate your feedback that it worked!

Yeah - that would work. Well it should work if done the right way.

I saw ranking changed every week for the things. Google is very frequent as far as updations are concerned. Their are few updates as well like Panda update which it does periodically like in half year.

Check out the free Xenu Link Sleuth and this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xenu-link-sleuth-more-than-just-a-broken-links-finder I haven't used it myself (yet), but Screaming Frog could help as an alternative, though the full version is paid. This post compares the two: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog

Thank you Ryan!

I didn't get into anything moral about it. I'm going from Google's eyes -- if I am the search engine and I have xx sites with the same content to display, is there a reason I should display this site above any of those other xx identical sites? And is there a site out there that is better than those xx number of identical sites that offers more information? Google's out to make money too. If they don't satisfy their users with their results, their users will go elsewhere. To go specifically to your home page question, do you know what is putting the hop parameter in there? That's likely not helping things. I'm looking at Open Site Explorer, and this doesn't appear to be too strong of a site. It has 55 total links, from only 10 domains. The top link is from "Free For All Link Page", and there are several link pages (rather than editorial content) in your inlinks. These aren't sending the highest quality signals to your site, either.

great points to consider. moving to a reputable host. thanks!