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Create a regular and mobile site map, then remove the redirect for the googlebot (authentication google bot that is not just the googlebot useragent as that is easily spoofed). As a side note, anyone looking for mobile device redirection, detectmobilebrowsers.mobi should only be used if you are a small business within the US or Europe only.  If you are a medium to large business and/or care about global visitors and covering all mobile device not just top of the range "smartphones" its simply not good enough and you should look into using WURFL or "DeviceAtlas".

Thank you all for the responses. I hope they start supporting it soon.

I would start by looking at the design of the site. You are asking users to part with good sums of money yet the site design looks quite dated and I would definitely bounce. In terms of resources there is loads of useful info on this site. I would start with http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo if you have not already.

Hi Ryan Id also love to know what you thought were good stores, we are also looking at ecomm for wordpress atm Cheers S

Seriously you should be looking forward to my blog post (currently they need to review it for technical accuracy, which may take some time) but it is a post about how to make your Flash website as SEO friendly as possible...but until then I can only tell you, "Even the good-old HTML , we need A LOT of optimization to make it PERFECT for indexing..." , i have tried so many ways to make my Full Flash website SEO friendly, and let me tell you, none of them are as powerful as any optimized HTML page That is why in my blog post here, I am going to explain how to make your Flash website as SEO friendly as those normal optimized HTML page (and it really works) Hopefuly the blog post is approved in time

That makes sense. Thanks a bunch.

Thanks for the detailed response. I checked Open Site Explorer and looks like we should be using the www. Also, I believe that we have some print ads that use www -- good thinking!

Thanks for the explanation!

it could be any one out of the following 3 scenarios. 1: The page in question was moved at some point and since the CMS still accepts the old URL, when google re-visits the old URL it still finds it. So in this scenario it will find both the old URL and the new URL and index both. 2: google hasn't revisited the page for a long while but it is still in it's index, even though it would get a 301 by the CMS when it visits the page. Can be easily fixed by going to webmaster tools and ask it to remove it from the index. 3: there are still links to the old URL either on site or off site and since the CMS doesn't 301 the oid page it will index it again with a new URL. 4:the page still exists in the CMS because of some strange setting or equivalent in the CMS. as mentioned before the easy fix is to use a robots.txt and deny access to the page and ask google to remove it from it's index. the better fix is to find the problem in the CMS and solve it. a midway fix could be to 301 it in the .htaccess or equvilent on an ISS server. hope it helped

one option is to have all ad code in separate files that get loaded  on page-view, through an include.  If you then place all ad files in their own folder, you can then noindex the entire folder in the robots.txt file. Engineering and Marketing go hand - in - hand regarding SEO.  What engineers say is "impossible" regarding SEO is due to their lack of specific methodology and the human condition that tends to cause people to instantly conclude that if they have never done it, never seen it done, or never been shown, then it must be impossible. This is an existential concept common with people who are extremely logic oriented.  Rather than arguing, it's much more efficient to do the research, and find the answers.  Only at that point is it then wise to go back and say - here's a way it can be done.  Show them links to actual blog articles or discussion forum pages where the topic is discussed, if need be. It comes down to understanding that it's a teaching moment, with no ego involved.  Purely educating others, so everyone can work together for the common good.

is there a simple code I put somewhere in there? RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L] replace "mysite" with the name of your site do you see on there that he says its important to leave trailing / on folders Generally speaking a URL that ends in a slash represents a folder. A URL that ends without a slash represents a page or file. With respect to www or non-www, there is absolutely no preference from a pure SEO perspective. Either way you chose I would use the http:// prefix as it represents the complete URL.