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Don't worry, SEOMoz has taken it now. Very quirky.

Hi AABAB, This is pretty common. Unfortuneatly, Google can keep your old URLs around for a long time, especially pages without much authority. And yes, this can have a negative impact on your SEO - especially if Google in situations where Google is indexing both the old and new URLs, and hasn't processed the 301. Muhammed has a good suggestion. Create or put up a sitemap of your old URLs, and submit this sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools. The idea is that Google will re-crawl these URLs, finally register the 301, and drop those pages from the index. The URL removal tool would be a great option if all the pages are in the same directory, such as /old-pages/xxxxx, as Google allows you to remove entire directories in bulk. But unfortunately it looks like your URLs are all at the root, so this isn't an option. Regardless, hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Hi There, Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. It actually isn't possible for the SEOmoz crawler to access pages that require a user login. I went to those URLs and I was able to access the pages with out be logged in as a user, so they don't require user sign up to access them. Since these pages are linked to by other pages on your site and our crawler is not being blocked from these pages and the pages don't actually require a user to be signed in to access them, we will crawl them. I can't say why Google wouldn't be crawling those pages, but there is definitely nothing in place that would stop our crawler from accessing them. If you would like to stop our crawler from accessing those pages in the future, you may consider adding a disallow directive in your robots.txt file using the user-agent rogerbot. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn

Hey Boo, Sorry for the confusion. The issues with Open Site Explorer definitely wouldn't be the cause of any issues with on-page reports, since those tools are separate. I would need some more data in order to fully look into the issue, such as the old on-page reports. I'm going to create a ticket in our support system so that you will be able to send me any attachments you might have and so that I can send this to our engineers more easily, if necessary. Once I create the ticket, you will receive an email with the necessary information to access the ticket and you can reply to me there. Thanks, Chiaryn

1. Penguin is the problem.  Have never received any notices from Google, but the drop corresponds exactly to the date. 2.  Ok I hear you. I'll 301 it to a competitors site   (it's a joke!) 3. Good point.

We provide that option (to change your language and country) but I have to balance that with user experience.  The best user experience if for someone in France to see French content delivered from servers in France and for someone in Germany to see German content delivered from servers in Germany.  It wouldn't be great for me if when I visit Sony's website it were all in Japanese until I clicked a box saying I wanted to see it in English.  We're fortunate in that we have just as many visitors from outside the US as within the US so we can't tip the scale either direction.   Have you seen anyone who uses Akamai and has a significant global presence that has done this single landing content page effectively?

Thank you Justin. These things are sometime so obvious and blinker you when you stare at the site all day. Thanks again for the help.

Yes, it displays pricing information in your listings as seen here. If you are asking if it's worth doing it, ROI wise, then yes. It makes your listing stand out more. There is the argument that competitors might have a lower price listed in the meta data, but organic listings aren't really used for price comparison. That's what apps / Google Shopping is for. You'd be surprised at how few online stores are even showing this meta data, anyway. In addition, Google isn't the only service using the meta data. You will also get included in shopping apps that crawl this data. As far as hard numbers, I don't have that or know of blogs that have published similar data. Including meta information overall has increased CTR in my experience, though.

I would suggest to do exactly as Matt says. Do them slowly and start with your lowest traffic domains/websites. As you see the new site starting to pickup the changes and the affects of the 301 from the old domain and the rankings start to show up, do more...gradually. Rather then all in one day.

Hi  Marie Thanks for the advice Cheers

Hi - for a guide on video SEO I think this is an excellent place to start and it helped me a lot with my approach to it - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo Big credit to the author - Phil Nottingham from Distilled

Thanks Ben.  We'll look to do this in the future. Maybe with a virtual directory or something. Cheers!

If both cases display the same exact content via different URLs, then you don't want to return 200 status codes for both versions. A 301 redirect might work but since they are for the same exact page, it's possible you might run into an infinite redirect loop and make your pages completely inaccessible. As a result, I would recommend using the rel="canonical" tag to designate which URL is the correct one for the search engines to index.

Ryan's given you a super generous answer! I wanted to add a couple of things: You mentioned that you will attach a list of links that you couldn't get removed.  It may help to go even further.  What I usually do is attach a document that contains a copy of each email that I have sent for sites that I was unsuccessful with.  And, if I got a negative response back I would include that email as well. I also include screenshots of every contact form that I have submitted.  It may be overkill but from Google's perspective if you just say, "I tried to contact them" that's not enough. You're probably already doing this, but be super humble in your request and make sure that you tell Google you are committed to following the quality guidelines from this point on.  I think part of the reason why Google makes webmasters go through this is because they want to be sure that they understand the gravity of trying to game the system with SEO tactics. And like Ryan said...be really tough on yourself when it comes to links.  I have seen a number of webmasters that say, "NO!  That's not an unnatural link!  It came from an article that I wrote", or something like that.  But in reality almost every link that you have had a hand in creating is one that is considered unnatural to Google. Good luck!  If you are successful, it would be great for you to post about your success here in the Q&A to encourage others. Marie

Thanks for the update! I am glad it worked out for you.

Unfortunately it still works pretty well.