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I run an e-commerce site which is why I have so many pages. Each product acts as its own page. Each product has a title (product name) and each has its own URL as well as short description, long description and meta description. Maybe I need to go further into the description and add more content and double check that they are in fact being crawled by google as you mention.

Hi There Josh has a really good point. Is that your site also? I'd also highly suspect some poor back links pointing at your site http://screencast.com/t/RbsezbmDwlVk as well as things like these active footer links http://screencast.com/t/BM7o0V8Z You are ranking on page one for "suntech engineers" - what other keywords were you expecting to rank for, that you are not?

Hi Dmitrii, Appreciate the reply. I didn't really explain the part about the beginning of the title because it wasn't really relevant to my issue, but you are right they should be unique. They won't all be the same, but the date and title makes sure there will be no duplicates. Thanks again for the answer.

thanks appreciate for your help, thanks

thanks appreciate for your help, thanks

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Hi, You might want to try this solution: Redirects domain.com/file.php to domain.com/file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d                      # is not directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f               # is an existing php file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+).php$                    # request URI ends with .php RewriteRule (.*).php$ /$1 [R=301,L]                                 # redirect from file.php to file Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1992183/how-to-hide-the-html-extension-with-apache-mod-rewrite (2nd answer) Dirk

Thanks Gil! We've made that change now. Hope it all works out. Throughly appreciate your help and advice!

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You should automatically redirect the www or non-www (check Google to see which one they prefer.) If you're using a host that allows .htaccess files, you can use one of these (CHOOSE one and put the whole code in .htaccess) #redirect non www to www RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..+$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L] OR #redirect www to non www RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks for the response Ruth, that was very helpful.

Hi Thomas, This is interesting and great advice thank you. I think the hard sell may be internal, but it's something I'll look at proposing to the company. I'll do my research and put a case together. Thank you

Thank you! I'm watching this now

Hi David, Indeed like Daniel mentioned it's already enough if the pages redirect to the new version to make sure that the user is redirected to the right URL. If you're very lucky and the structure is the same on both sites then you would be able to take care off this with only 1 redirect. Martijn.

I know I promised you a crawl and I apologize for the delay I've been so busy lately. But here is something without your domain name on it that gives you an idea of what's going on I will private message you the rest of the information. when I give you the report it will be in PDF format in addition to all five link you can click on anything with a green arrow or literally pretty much anything on the report to see more. the amount of redirects you have  are to say the least extremely high. don't worry I have not put your domain in anything that is public. Again I'm sorry for the delay, Thomas kzRefEi.png

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Thanks for the hint Dirk! I've used the tool and it works great. I even found a handy chrome extension ("WebMaster Tools - Bulk URL removal") that made the removal of my 3,000 subdirectories very smooth and saved me about 25 hours of manual work! WebMaster Tools - Bulk URL removal

I've only just seen this Thank you! I'll try and get to grips with User Flow, I need to dedicate some time to analysing the data Becky

Two comments.... The rankings of a lot of my keywords flux up and down, especially if they are associated with pages that are less than about a year old.  However, once those pages have a little age and a little strength, the rankings usually become solid.  A few mature pages will have unstable rankings, but these make up just a small percentage of the mature pages on the website. The major exception to the above occurs when the content on your page is the same as the content on other pages on the web.  In those cases, the rankings of your pages can jump around in the SERPs.  They often jump up and down in the SERPs or flash in and out of the supplemental results.  So if you are getting content from other people rather than creating it from scratch, this could be a problem.   Or, if lots of weasels are grabbing your content and publishing it on their site then your rankings can become very unstable.  This problem occurs in both websearch and image search.

Thanks for double checking that Dirk, I didn't know that the inspect element tool and source code would show different code, but it makes sense.