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hmmm...I went looking on your profile to see if you had listed a URL and having run your domain through Open Site Explorer, I can see that it is very likely that the bulk of your problems are coming from your site's external link profile. Here are a few more blog posts that might help you to get a clear picture of things: Penguins, Pandas and Panic at the Zoo by Dr Pete Meyers. Anchor Text Distribution: Avoiding Over Optimization by Geoff Kenyon. Bad Backlink Checking by Richard Baxter and for something a little less intense, but that can help immensely if you are trying to get a picture of your own situation, Link Removal Flowchart by Bob Meinke. Hope that helps, Sha P.S. The Google Algorithm Change History can also be very useful in checking whether changes in site traffic, rankings etc coincide with changes at Google.

What is it that is stopping your site from ranking higher? Is it bad on-page optimization, bad links, poor link profile, Penguin-inflicted penalty, Panda-inflicted penalty or just plain bad luck? I am sure you would have a probable reason behind your site's inability to climb higher. Before looking for a provider, you need to find out the weakness. With SeoMoz's tool-chest, this should not be difficult. Thanks, Rajesh Dhawan

Unless your old site is penalized for some reason, I don't see any reason you should go for a new domain within the same traffic segment. With 5 years of domain age, chances are that your efforts will take less time on the old domain to bring results. With a new domain, things won't be as simple as they look. I would have taken age of the site as a big advantage and stuck to old domain. Overall costs would be lower for the results to be achieved in case of old domain. Now, if for some reason the old domain or site was penalized, then that is a different matter altogether. Thanks, Rajesh Dhawan

No.  If it is a newly registered domain the only benefit you will receive is type-in traffic. If the domain has a website on it with rankings and links you  might get some benefit from them if you play your cards right.

You should do both. Implement the 301 to catch any link strength coming in from external pages and send it to your correct URL. Always link to your root URL in your internal navigation as linking to index.html and then relying on the 301 to redirect to the correct URL will leak a small amount of link juice every time.

If, as Collin says, you are not in to deep you could change them and 301 the old to the new and then going forward you could just use the new format.

About B, and maybe its related to If we create a separate sitemap, we wouldn't be "saying to Google" that www.domain.com/a its the same page, but different version as m.domain.com/a. Using alternate media you are telling google that it is the alternate version, not a completely different page; something similar to what happens with hreflang and domain.com / domain.co.uk / domain.de, or with canonical urls

Would actual descriptions of a location around 250 words long be seen and penalised as duplicate content? Yes.  If that is the majority of page content. Also is there a possible way to canonicalise this content so that Google can see it relates back to our original site? Yes, if the duplicate pages had rel="canonical" applied as described here... http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 The problem with that is the webmasters who own the partner sites would have to apply this to their pages (if you don't have control) and some of them will realize that your goal is to discredit their pages.

thanks joseph... have a good day..

Majority of shopping sites I've seen usually have the color tile under the product picture when it is listed with the other products. If they see that there are other colors, they will most likely click it to see what colors or sizes are available. This will improve you pageviews and keep the customer on the site, rather then driving them away right away after finding out the size or color is no longer available.

They did come back after a couple days, I sure wish they would make up their minds. Thanks again for the responses.

Hi Mariano A)As you mentioned Google supports up to 50,000 URLs in a Sitemap, This limit applies only to the number of URLs referenced specifically in <loc>tags.</loc> URLs referenced as hreflang don't count towards the 50k URLs. B) Yes try to implement the sitemaps as they are different domains.

Glad to hear it, Taysir, and good luck! Miriam

Glad I could help!

So glad to be of help, Robert! Have a great week. Miriam

looks weird and i would fix personally,  but if you leave off http:  a URL does resolve. look at the indexing on the site and see if the canonical rules are being followed since they are already implemented on the site.

thanks very much. Heavily agreed upon with those social shares. Very hard to get those however!

Totally not an issue to be concerned about on any of those questions you asked - just remove the noindex tag and submit the URL(s) in WMT for Google to respider those specific pages faster, you'll be back up and running in no time.

Hi Doug, Thank you for your reply. We never used the .com it was redirected to the .co.uk domain since the begining. The traffic is 100% new visits. Cornel