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Just checked with the Rank Tracker and the .com domains don't appear to be ranking for any of my keywords (including domain name). Will I notice a bump in SERPs/traffic once I 301 the domain .com -> .co.uk or has google already figured that out behind the scenes?

Fabio, If you are taking the time to redirect to a 404 page, I would suggest using a 301 to a page that is active. Instead of wasting the link juice on a 404 page, you can pass it on to something that is active and useful to your visitor (even a "help" page) The key here is to find a new page that is at least somewhat connected to what was on the dead link's URL.

Mike, This is best practice on all sites. Forgetting about the links for a minute; you have two versions of the same page (in search engines eyes) so the first step is to do exactly what you're asking and consolidate into one. The next step is to ensure your URLs end with a trailing slash because if you have www.url.com and www.url.com/  you again have two different versions. DD

Quick follow up- Due to my ecommerce cart, I'm not able to modify the canonical tag on invdividual pages.  However, Adams other suggestion to use webmaster tools was great and I tried that.  I went into the site configuration settings and then clicked on parameter handling.  Google had already detected the setCurrencyId parameter, so I changed it to be "ignored." Hope that helps someone.

Tom, Thank you for taking the time to look at the site and giving a detailed response. I’ve been doing some research myself and my findings mirror your assessment. Thank you for recommended action items too. Converse uses http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/ which is a good site experience but as you pointed out not so hot for SEO. --SEOsurfer

Here are two posts that may be helpful in both explaining how to set up a robots.txt for wordpress, and the thinking behind setting up which parts to exclude. http://www.cogentos.com/bloggers-guide-to-using-robotstxt-and-robots-meta-tags-to-optimise-indexing/ http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress#Robots.txt_Optimization The wordpress link (second link) has a link to several other resources as well.

Hi Joseph The info you sent me looked fine. Have you seen if other users on other browsers or operating systems are having this issue? Also have you cleared your cookies as advised in the warning message? If you upload a htaccess file with just one redirect do you still get the same issue? If so it would suggest that it may be a server issue. As such it may be worth talking to the relevant people within the organisation that deal with them or as may be the case if there is no one then it may be worth contacting the web host.

Not sure what your site structure is like but perhaps you want to add some lines for index.php? rewritecond %{http_host} ^inthelighturns.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.)$ http://www.inthelighturns.com/$1 [r=301,nc] RewriteRule ^index.(htm|html) http://www.inthelighturns.com/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.)/index.(htm|html) http://www.inthelighturns.com/$1/... [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^index.(php) http://www.inthelighturns.com/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.(php) http://www.inthelighturns.com/$1/... [R=301,L]

Did you get your site redirected to www? And have you noticed any change in Yahoo?

Did your clients ever believe you? If so, what convinced them? It's always helpful to know when one thing gets through to clients rather than another thing. Xenu Link Sleuth should do the same thing for you, if you're still looking for a tool that might convince them.

I see you have about 80 pages indexed now. Did you do anything to the site in the past month, or did Google just decide on its own to start indexing your site?

And if their documentation doesn't provide an answer, you can also try a search to see what others have said. Let us know if you need a hand with the canonical tag or can't find info from the bookmark provider.