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Hey, Yes - this is a classic problem. It should be relatively easy to fix in the hosting platform settings. What third party provider are you using?

Try this: Redirect 301 /a http://www.domain.com/x

That is a great question. We have a very active site we added some new info into meta desc about 8weeks ago. One search (not a very large # search on that phrase) still has the old info while all others have new. I believe it is due to # of servers, etc. with Google.

Oh! Thanks! I will pass that on. As you probably guessed, I am not as well versed in server errors as I would like to be. I am more of an SEO Analyst / Marketing person. I don't actually make changes at the server level. I am learning a lot from the problems that arose out of a website redesign. I am new and trying to get everything fixed. Again, thank you for your help.

You can add a couple of signals such as meta language tag globally and also in the footer make sure you have your address listed globally on the site, UK, United Kingdom, Great Britain, whatever variations you can include are all hints to Google as to where your business is. Also, I agree with Robert, worry about the behavior of your qualified regional traffic  and not cutting off traffic from other regions just because of bounce rate and time on site. I'd personally prefer the traffic and visibility.

If the homepage is live then the site is aging, if the page is completely deindexed then it is a dropped domain. I would suggest have a splash page homepage only that remains indexed.

can you explain more about the below please Hope I'm not being too harsh here, but don't expect a magic wand in your situation.  A quick link profile comparison between you and your competitors is enough to raise an eyebrow, and the ad-banner/logo combo in your header kind of begs a bounce. as a user what would you change, this would help me a lot. Last year we were number one under the keyword lifestyle magazine, and then in january we were number four and now we are about 15 which is not good so we are doing something wrong. some of the links above which include http://www.nelifestyle.co.uk/ have no content on the page so not sure how they are ranking better than we are. We just want to make the magazine the best it can be to attract more visitors and to rank better as that works hand in hand, without ranking well we cannot get the visitors.

In most cases the penalty is removed within a few weeks of getting your notification of the penalty being revoked. However, if you had very serious offenses when it comes to spam, it can take longer - even months. Another point to be aware of is that some sites do not return to getting anywhere near the rankings they had before because the vast majority of their links have been removed or disavowed.  But, you should see some sort of uptick though.

Hi few last quick question. Are "Meta Keywords" and "Meta Keyword Tags" the same thing? I am going through each page and adding Meta Title Tags (Unique and 70 chars or less) Meta Descriptions (Not unique same on every page) Is this correct and all I need?  And how long should the Meta Description be, is there a limit? Sorry I know this is basic stuff but I want to get the basics 100% correct or else we are doomed from the start! Thanks Andrew

Thank you, very much appreciate you responses.

would love to pm you and learn more about going direct to advertisers instead of affliate sites.so where the column is, where the related items is, i should remove that. when i remove the 2 column it means i only have one google adsense on the page, would you put the google adsense anywhere else on the page

I'd agree with Irving that NOINDEX will solve the problem (remove the risk), but I think you could cross-domain rel=canonical. This sounds like a syndication type of situation - you're not claiming credit for the content, but you think it has value to your visitors. So, give the credit to the originating site. There was a syndication-source option, but Google has quietly deprecated that, unfortunately.

Yes, something like that appears to be possible. I just now copy/pasted the URL above from my previous post and checked the source. The canonical is now correct. In the first post above, when I clicked from the homepage, the canonical tag did not change. Only the URL.

Great share. Interesting as I always believe there was a slight dampening effect going on.

WordPress SEO by Yoast allows you to add a "noindex, follow" to these pages. that will prevent the duplicate issues.  You can also remove the media pages from your sitemap. You can even drill down to each individual image and determine whether you want that image to be indexed or not. Another option is to remove the link from the image in the post.  I know you are dealing with quite a few images but unless you are wanting to promote that image, I would remove the link.

you could 301 everything to the closest similar product page/url instead of 404ing if these are entry pages that were ranking and getting traffic in search. by 404'ing them you'll lose those rankings, 301ing them will keep that ranking position but show the new URL in it's place.it all depend on if they were getting landing page traffic or not. also if any links are pointing to those pages and if they have any PR i would 301 them all instead of throwing the page juice away. what could you be forgetting? update sitemap.xml files and take the old ones off of the server and resubmit in Google internal linking is all updated, sometimes people have blogs pointing to old URLs, if you're 404'ing then you need to update them, if you're 301'ing they can be left the way they are if it will be time consuming make sure your robots.txt is updated, and people a lot of times put their sitemap.xml paths in the robots.txt so that would need to be updated run a broken link checker on the site once done

h mark, it maybe because that is a different author on that page. but the one here is the second one i done and the one above is the 1st as a test http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.uk%2Fgastric-hypno-band%2Fgastric-band-surgery-patient-from-cleethorpes-awarded-damages-after-surgery-went-wrong&html= here is the article http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-hypno-band/gastric-band-surgery-patient-from-cleethorpes-awarded-damages-after-surgery-went-wrong i have been adding more to the articles on my site but as yet i have not seen one picture show up in google when i do a search.