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Cool. No worries StackOverFlow has always been awesome in helping me with my IIS rules and such. If you Google: site:stackoverflow.com apache redirect You will see MANY examples of how to set up 301 redirects, including redirecting from non-www to www pages, etc. Hope this helps. Mike

The Chrome extension Redirect Path (built by Ayima) does see this as a 301 - it's an awesome extension and very helpful, I use it all the time. Google is definitely seeing this as a 301 redirect - when you run the info: site operator, on the URL, they show you the horizonblue URL - they def understand this -bcbsnj url has been replaced with horizon blue - check it for yourself here

Thanks.  So if I don;t need both are Invoice Template and Invoice Templates the same keyword then as far as google is concerned?

Takeshi, Sorry it took me a bit to get back to this post. I would appear that this issue has been taken care of, presumably either through the canonical tag OR a sitemap resubmission that I had cleaned up. However- When I do a search for domain.com/index.php in Google, it does still appear- is this something to worry about in your opinion?

Hi Chris You need to setup a 301 redirect from your none www.domain to your www.domain or vice versa depending on your preference. You should also make sure you have set your preferred version in Google Webmaster Tools. Take a look here for SEOMoz's guide on redirection - http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Thanks...Now is a bit clearer. Not all, but OK...Thanks again

Absolutely, would love their insight too. It certainly has me stumped as to why it has happened and I've only give a few potential causes, nothing definite. So would love to see as well!

Hi Woody! Thank you!  I had to create a new robots.txt file and denied the /login/ from being indexed.  My errors went down drastically. I appreciate the help. Sue Ann

Are you sure you haven't over optimized to try and rank for ALL the keywords you have listed? You should try rank for just one or two, and optimize for new keywords later on.

The 302 redirection is not great after you selected the language, do you really need to do that? You could use a modal popup like jquery UI has, this will avoid some back and forth to your splash page.

If the blocked urls are all the /recommendation/?c=catalog... pages, then looks like google is reading following the url in your ajax code, since the return is not a full page, then probably google discards them. Have you tried to disallow the /recommandation/ folder in your robot.txt? Also, why do you use ajax to call related products? To speed up the page load?

Not sure - that was private browsing in Chrome. One thing I recommend doing is creating and verifying a Google places page for your company with "date me now" as the brand name. This would help G associate that text with your domain and show sitelinks more often,

To expand on Oleg's answer: Canonical really only works when the page content is largely the same as well.  It is meant for when the same content can be accessed from different URLs. In the case of pagination the content will not be the same, so it is really the wrong tool for the job.  As Oleg says, the best answer would be to use the pagination markup.  However you can also get around the reported duplicate titles by simply appending the page number (for all pages after #1) in the title. So rather than top pages of "your results" you have "your results", "your results : Page 2", "your results : page 3" etc. It's a bit of a waste of title tags and also could impact CTR if any of those pages are ranking. However it is a solution to at least be aware of.

Yes, especially if the pages are identical. I would leave the new url (/internet-daily-special/itemA.html) and set a canonical to the page that is permanent (/subcategory/itemA.html). That way users and magento will be able to navigate to the daily specials section easily and crawlers would know that the permanent home for itemA is inside the subcategory. Cheers, Oleg

Thanks Oleg!  I added the cannonical tag here Hopefully that works!  Thanks for the input.

From a user's point of view, if that's all one title tag, it looks fairly stuffed and spammy. Google has been known to show a title tag of its choosing in the SERPs if it thinks the one coded is too spammy.

It depends on whether you use Apache or IIS to manage your website. Here is an example of what you'd use if you have IIS 7: <code><system.webserver><rewrite><rules><rule name="Force www" stopprocessing="true"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^site\.com$"></add></conditions> <action type="Redirect" url="<a" href="http://www.site.com/{R:1}">http://www.site.com/{R:1} redirectType="Permanent" /></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver></code> This shows what you'd use for Apache (at least I think... I use personally use IIS): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4907348/force-www-via-htaccess And once you have one of these in place, you will also want to configure your Google Webmaster Tools to specify your preferred domain (Configuration > Settings > Preferred domain > Display URLs as www.YOURSITE.com). This is technically a 301 permanent redirect, so if you have any other links on the web that point to the non-www version, they will be redirected to the correct www version - since there is a redirect at play here, it would not pass the full amount of link juice. But like I said in my previous post, it appears that you only have 1 link pointing to the incorrect version. So, you will actually be fixing a broken link by doing this. In theory, your www version will be gaining some of the link juice that the non-www version was previously receiving. This is also going to provide your users with a better experience as well... which is nice Make sense? Mike

Hi Mark, I think we've all been in your situation at least once in our careers as an SEO. As you've mentioned previously you've resubmitted the site via GWT etc so there's not much else you can do. I would however recommend filing a reconsideration request if you're happy with your backlink profile and feel you would pass a manual inspection of the site. As the reconsideration request feature isn't just for sites that have been penalised. Case and point, I had a client with 2 very similar sites targeting two seperate countries, he accidently blocked off one of his sites with a robots.txt and the site wouldn't rank properly for 2 months and the issue was only rectified after a reconsideration request. Good luck