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Ok, its been about 2 weeks, checked this morning and I have moved up 1 position and the blog site is now 1 position below me.

Here is what I have changed it to...found various articles including the one listed above and decided to go with this, not sure if it is good or bad. www.ensoplastics.com/robots.txt

If rankings are your motivation, you're better off optimizing your site for mobile using media queries and getting more hits that way than building an app. I'd definitely measure your mobile traffic to see if the effort is even worth it for your customers. Personally, unless the app is doing something beyond displaying your site with all the features it normally has, I don't think there's any reason to create an app, and I think a lot of people have gone a little app crazy with mobile tech.

This is likely your problem: Redirect permanent /spanish/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html Change to: Redirect permanent /spanish/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/ Your first one was saying that anything under /spanish/ should be directed to /es/index.html, which then was adding /index.html to all your other rules due them calling both the /spanish/ folder rule & their unique one.

I found over 1,700 broken links, many of them images and css files but a lot of pages also. I also found over 4,000 unecessary redirects, mean you have internal links that point to the wring url and then are redirected, each redirect leaks link juice. This is by far the most common The link to "http://www.safari.co.uk/expore-africa" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.safari.co.uk/Explore-Africa" Not the upper case, there is a lot more less harmfull problems also. But I dont think these are things that have happened in the last few weeks,

Run an "Open Site Explorer" check to see what links are pointing at you.  Start with the lower quality ones, and do a site:domain search.  If they aren't indexed, get rid of that link. Check where your links are located on these sites.  Footer?  Request a new location, or request to delete the link. Check your keyword density.  If it's obviously high, decrease it Find straggler pages.  Judge it to see if its valuable.  If not, 301 it. Check out all of your pages (starting with most important).  Do they have light content?  Write more good content

Yes that was what I was thinking. Having said that, it is possible to obscure the theme of the page by adding more text also

I am very thank full to you all for your value able comments. We are going to redesign our website to make it more clean, focused and with the community development platforms like member area, blogs etc. We will also motivate the visitors to generate content that may not only help the other visitors but also increase the percentage of unique content on our site. We have also made some changes(in our current site) to decrease the duplicate content.  Again Thanks for your input.

Agreed with Alan (deeper in the comments) - you may have cut off links to these pages or internal link-juice flow. It would be much better to either 301-redirect the "/shop" pages or use the canonical tag on those pages. In Apache, the 301 is going to be a lot easier - if "/shop/product" always goes to "/product" you can set up a rewrite rule in .htaccess and you don't even need to modify the site code (which site-wide canonical tags would require). The minor loss from the 301s should be much less than the problems that may have been created with Robots.txt. As Alan said, definitely re-point your internal links to the canonical (non-shop) version.

Thanks a bunch, Lavellester. Just finished Tom's post - exactly what I needed. I appreciate your help, H

Hi Pano, Just to clarify, are you saying that the site ranks well for both the [bolster] and [bolsters] keyphrases, but that only one is showing up in Google Analytics as providing any traffic? Sorry for the confusion. Cheers, Jane

On the left side you need to click exact to see the seo traffic on the keyword you are looking for -Otherwise you get the default which is broad

Since a 202 error is a server error, that's not categorizing that page right. A 404 says it doesn't exist, which is better. However, redirecting it to another similar and relevant page via a 301 is the best option.

I think that's kind of a great solution for the fast changing world of rentals. With this one: www.example.com/details/apartment/id/786 - you're going so many folders down that Google may not even index what you have.

Hi Pano 1)  what may be the cause of some rank declines?  ~  there are literally so many possibilities as to why your rankings have dropped, impossible to have any realistic idea without a site history brief and a full analysis. Have a think as to what changes, if any, have been made recently, such as new content, content removal, lost links, new competition, site restructure, redirects...  the possibilities are (almost) endless. A 'decline in traffic' can be attributed to a decline in rankings, there is often a correlation that exists, however that's just one factor out of so many, so is likely to be a more heavily weighted factor or even more likely, a combination of different factors that have caused a drop in rankings.  More to the point, it's the drop in rankings that will likely cause the drop in traffic, though not always. 2)  how do I bring them back up when the indexed page is the homepage?  ~  there are a few changes you could make, the first one I'd suggest is looking at your site structure and perform some Housekeeping. From what you've described, you are correct, it's (usually) not at all feasible or realistic to target 1 page (the homepage in your case) for a variety of different keywords.  It's lately been deemed a Frankenpage when that does happen, as in one page trying to be the jack of all trades, ends up in an ugly mess and can be detrimental.  Check out a Whiteboard Friday Video entitled "Mapping Keywords to Content for Maximum Impact". So the answer to this question is above;  figure out what page is supposed to serve what purpose, do some housekeeping to ensure that the navigation is easy and logical so that users can find the right page for what they are looking for.  Focus on your Category Pages for those important Yoga keywords that can't be catered for on the homepage yet are still very important to be found for. I hope that helps, Regards Simon

Ah, when you said ad units, I assumed you mean AdSense. In terms of non G ads, I run 4 per page with no issues. You could probably stretch this to 6 though.