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Has the number of pages indexed changed? Specifically, do you have a sitemap and have you looked at what GWT is reporting for number of pages indexed? Maybe some of your pages dropped out of the index and that's why you're not getting as much traffic? Also, do a quick look at your pages and make sure something silly didn't happen when the products were added, like a rel canonical setting everything to the home page, or 5000 items suddenly getting a noindex, or your analytics program suddenly being stripped from some of your pages and that's why you're missing visits.

So, is a flat structure bad for SEO? I mean, it's the pages in the "bottom" of the site structure that are the most important ones... Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.  It depends upon a lot of factors, mostly the size of your site, your goals and the relative amounts of competition that your pages are up against. Anybody who gives you an answer here is guessing.  This is one of the most important strategy decisions that a webmaster can make and a good decision would require an evaluation of your site, keyword competitiveness research, plus information about your business. On top of that the ideal structure of your site can change over time as it becomes more powerful or as your competitors become more powerful.  New sites often do best with a narrow structure and then can go flatter and flatter as they gain power. It would be best to hire someone who really knows link structure and competitive analysis if you want a good evaluation of this.

Yes, it will pass juice. And if you are looking for traffic in other languages, this is a smart thing to do

You could also use AdWords for immediate and broad exposure.

Sorry, no transcript I can find... but this links sums things up.  Hope it helps! http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority

It's not exactly 3 clicks... if you're a PR 10 website it will take you quite a few clicks in before it gets "tired". Deep links are always a great idea.

Get listed in the local UK directories. i.e.- Yelp.co.uk

there should always be one way search bots can crawl your site to get to the content - even the deepest content. If you've got that in place, any other path can be noindexed, or index/followed.

You've not got that much in terms of link diversity, or from much that's relevant. Directories, blogs and forums, links pages, etc... that don't pass a lot of value. 11 Linking Root Domains, including directories, some are nofollow. Not a lot in terms of quality links. And then your anchor text needs a little more diversity too: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/www.nintendowiifitconsole.co.uk%252F/a!anchors Google will often let a new site rank well for a bit before knocking it back down again. Also, my personal belief is that Google's not all that keen on affiliate sites anyway... I lost rankings on mine from Panda. I reckon all in all, if you get some more, higher quality links... and as it appears now some social signals too, then you'll start ranking much better

And make sure you've submitted an up-to-date sitemap

Thanks!

just no-follow the link. That is one of the two uses of the no-follow attribute. The other is for content that you cannot vouch for.

You're a genius! Thanks!!

I'd go into www.opensiteexplorer.org and see if you can find this backlink.  If you can't, then it probably doesn't count. Check it out, it's cached with your link - search this... inurl:www.nyc.gov "cars for kids"

Ah ok I get it...sorry I am a little slow! Thanks for your help and I will appy that method to remove  the cat. links.

In short, yes that will work. To be clear, you can have multiple links which all lead to the same target page. The target of that link could still be indexed if there are other unblocked links which point to it.

Google will cache whatever you serve up. So if your page serves up random text, Google will cache random text. Have you tried to add the file back in with a NOINDEX command?

I'm not good with writing htaccess code, but just thought I would mention that if you don't get an answer, another solution would be to use a rel-canonical tag in the header, pointing to the domain you want indexed.  This would tell the search engines that the non-parked domain is the proper one to index.  The other one should drop out of the index after you do this.

Hey Sean, I looked at the cached version of the YouTube channel of BMW ( http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.youtube.com/bmw&hl=fr&lr=&sa=G&strip=1 ) and it doesn't seem to have any kind of redirect on this one. You might have seen a redirect because you were logged into your account and looking at your own channel, like when you can edit it, so probably by logging out or by looking at the cached version by Google you should see that it is a plain juice flowing link. Regards, Guillaume Voyer. P.S. Look at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.youtube.com/user/PretavoirUK&hl=fr&lr=&sa=G&strip=1