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Thanks Ian...I'll take a look. Nothing I can do but depending what I see I can add it to the "to do" list.

agree with EGOL and irvingw.  even if google crawls your pages near daily, having pricing information that changes constantly in a title tag is not best practices.  Depending on what you're selling, you could draw inspiration from some of the larger E-commerce sites in terms of best practices for title tags on product pages.

Auto dealership SEO is a tricky thing.  Stephen is right on the suite # issue.. that may fix it temporarily.  Do you have two different brands, with two different employees etc, or is it one employee that can sell different brands?

Thank you everyone! Great stuff

Almost every piece of text on my sites is within some kind of div.  There's nothing wrong with using divs at all! However, if you were trying to hide the text within a div for manipulative purposes then this would be against Google TOS.

If you mean viewing the source of the page and the actual html elements that is what I did. With Javascript turned on all of the html elements show up. With it turned off they don't, thus much of it is being written via javascript. Instant preview on that page from the google serps does not show all of the comments, just the likes. However the cached version of the page does show all of the comments, but it must be some sort of screen capture because the majority of the comments do not show up when viewing the source of the cached page. So not sure that really confirms anything. I guess to find out you might have to do a controlled test.

Hi, I was not aware that you were talking about articles for article marketing. However, in this case you should also try to write different content with different headings, in order to avoid duplicate content and to make for a more interesting read. Before you submit them to article directories, I would still pause to think whether it makes more sense to have them on your site and try to build links to the article.

Thanks for your reply.

The rel canonical tag shouldn't remove the duplicate versions from the index. It would suggest to Google which version is the main version. If you want to remove the duplicate version from the index, maybe you could add a meta robots no index, follow tag. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

Shalom - Your blocking the images folder in your robots.txt file.

It's solved then, the problem definitely lies within our code. Thanks a lot guys really appreciate your time.

Ryan Kent has a much better answer than I regarding keyword cannibalization on this Q&A thread http://www.seomoz.org/q/dilution-of-link-juice. You might read that and see if that helps explain things a bit more for you.

Thanks for that. This guy is very slippery and it is bad news that he is allowed to get away with stuff. Our legal team have said that because we have no proper proof  of him attacking our site although they and we know what he is doing, we cannot take him to court. We are trying to see if we can take him to court for false alligations to our hosting company because he gave his name to them. But with other companies he has been using different names. This is costing us thousands of pounds and it seems we are getting no nearer to stopping him or sorting it out. We had to change the content on our site because he was copying it and then passing it on as his own and sending it to people who have sites that represent him, so our rankings dropped and while the legal team were sorting it out we took the choice to re write a lot of the content. There needs to be more guidelines in place to stop all this, but there is some good news as the guy who is trying to off load franchises is getting a bad reputation. We got into a forum that is just meant for his franchisee people and we got in by just registering and found he was calling our company and making recommendations on how to stop us from getting customers and when our legal team made him aware of this, he went mad and said it was wrong of us to be on his forum and he quickly put a lock on it. It would be nice if this was an honest world

Thanks for the quick response Ryan! We don't use SSL on these sites, and our emails go via an external software provider, so looks like we can do without a static IP to begin with.

Hey Tom, although everything you're proposing below in regards to SEO is great, and should be done anyway, I don't think that's the reason you're seeing poor (or no) performance in Google Shopping. Disclaimer, my knowledge of Google Product Search is limited to my experience in the U.S. There may be a whole different set of requirements for the UK. Over the last few months Google Product Search has been rolling out additional requirements and perhaps their most recent update(s) affected you.  I can't say for sure, but I'd make sure you are providing every attribute possible that they request, even the 'suggested' attributes. Additionally, make sure you are not providing more than one record for each Unique Product Identifier. Glancing at your site, I could not find any product SKU / UPC, etc. associated with your products, but that doesn't mean you're not providing it to Google. See here the the most recent update: Google Products Search Feed Specs/Policy Changes Hope this helps.

Thanks you both. This community is Awesome!

Google may still index pages excluded by robots.txt if the pages are backlinked either internally or externally. For best results, use meta noindex to tell search engines they're not allowed to show the link in results, and meta nofollow to tell robots not to follow any links on the page. Webmaster Tools Help: Using meta tags to block access to your site You can also explicitly address goooglebot in the meta tag, as opposed to just robots. If you use both a robots.txt and meta robots tags and there are conflicting directives,  googlebot will follow the most restrictive one.

Hi Stephen - Thanks for that. I definitely hadn't considered building a new site to promote it. If I managed to get quite a lot of other companies using it, and linking to this site, it would build up a pretty impressive profile of links, and be a great link for our site. Definitely food for thought. Thanks