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I'm no expert but I don't believe the company's address must be in the footer of every single page. Someone with more experience will surely respond to clarify this.  It might help for local SEO and probably couldn't hurt. It is quite common for this information to be included on the about and/or contact us pages. Looking forward to hear what others have to say.

It could be the case of different browsers hitting different data centres which have not yet consolidated their rankings.

Hi Challen, The following code should remove all index.html from any page you go to but I recommend you get someone who is comfortable working with .htaccess files since you can do some damage if you don't do thing correct.  Plus not all code in .htaccess files works the same on every server.  So if the code in the other few answer doesn't work and neither does mine, it may be something to do with your host and you may need to check with them. Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index.html\ HTTP [NC] RewriteRule (.*)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L] Casey

Everything seems to be being crawled correctly. Really puzzling actually. None of the other sites had a ton of backlinks either so that wasn't really the issue, just wanted anyone stumbling upon them to be redirected.

Yes! Look at how items can be sorted (i.e. by price, etc... so people can see the cheapest items first). Then think how the products you're feeding in might be sorted by your target audience and adjust accordingly so your stuff comes up first in the sorted results

You have pretty much answered this question yourself by saying that the would make poor landing pages. If that is the case,  and they are useful for site users,  but not for search then, yeah,  noindex them. There is no need to nofollow those links either, you can if you want, but I don't see the point as the crawlers will hit your page, see the noindex tag and ignore it.

Thanks Adam - the generateit tool works like a charm! Bookmarked!

Thanks Alan - I'm not looking for brute force link building was just curious about the concept

Hi Aran, thanks for the fast response. Here's more detailed information about the sub-categories: 1st Category Performance > Chip Tuning & Power Box > Power Box - Diesel Engines > Alfa Romeo 147 url - /alfa-romeo-147-c1070-en 2nd Category Aerodynamics > Rieger Tuning > Alfa Romeo 147 url - /alfa-romeo-147-c234-en 3rd Category Lighting > Tail Lights > Alfa Romeo 147 url - /alfa-romeo-147-c399-en The url represents the name of the subcategory with it's category id and the language. I was thinking of changing only the url, but the urls will become much much longer, and this will not help with the problem with the anchor texts and the keyword cannibalisation  ...

Not a problem, let me know if you have any other questions. I am here to help.

Have you had any luck with your flash pages getting ranked? Build links to the pages that are getting ranked. Don't fight an uphill battle.

Google doesn't like "cloaking" type things, showing them different stuff than you show the users will get you penalized. Don't do it.

Looks like both URLs are being rendered from the same View (products.php). Depending on how your site was implemented you're going to have to address it at the controller and/or rewrites level. What the error says is that the page is redirecting to itself ad-infinitum.

Exact match type efforts are great.  For a single phrase.  Or longer tail phrases off of that.  As soon as you want to get ranked for variations that in their sum total require going beyond the exact match, they're not as valuable.  Especially if you need to start from scratch. On the other side of the coin, is all of the content on the existing site high enough quality AND truly relevant to your goals?  If it' snot and you need to scrap it, you're going to take a hit on those statistics anyhow. And on a final note - don't trust the PR numbers alone.  They're inaccurate at best, and at least months old.  Could very well be that the real PR (not the TBPR you're going by) is lower, especially after Panda/Farmer. Better to look at the traffic statistics on the site both current and historically compared.  If you don't have analytics to review, it's a crap-shoot.

Hi Adam and Alan. Thanks for the info. I figured as much but for some reason the fact it was a blog threw me as I rarely see blogs on a subdomain. Many thanks guys.

Perhaps not THE deciding factor - and yes I agree that the backlinks are perhaps of a higher strength/quality - but surely the domain name still plays SOME part in the overall ranking of the site? Or is this something that used to be effective and that's why people bought up domain names that matched their highest traffic keywords?

Clement, those are all good points.

100% agree on the 301 redirect strategy.  The best execution is to 301 redirect each page to the new page on the new site.  If you have a TON of pages and can not create a 301 redirection rule for every single page you should at least 301 redirect the proper directories to each other. One thought is...since you will be doing this 301 redirect why not make the NEW urls user/keyword friendly?  Also maybe build some directory structure to the site.  Hopefully you will be doing his but just thought I should mention it.