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I completely agree with you Dana. You said yourself the pages hold keyword heave images in a slider. This could also be one of the problems. If your URL in combination with page title, and page content is too heavy one keywords you could notice negative effects. In this case enormous drops in rankings. Like Dana suggested, go step by step and isolate the exact problem. Otherwise everything you do can make things even worse in stead of better. And like Dana suggested, I've had a website that was rankings no. 3 for a very competitive keyword, from one day to another, dropped over 50 positions, in the next couple of days rankings restored. Did I panick, Yes. Did I analyse if there was a problem, Yes, Did I change anything major to the site? NO. Keep it simple and work in logical steps and you should be fine.

I don’t think coming up with a company name will be great but why not check Google places and yelp for a local company within your area.. and read the reviews to have an idea of their work and customer service...

Mike I think this is what you are looking for: https://moz.com/community/q/html-extension - also a recent question from the Q&A. I think Dana's link explains how to maintain the .html in WordPress and that debate was more about if 301's pass PR etc. Whereas if you've decided you already want to redirect, that tells you how.

I also agree with Martijn. Don't get your hopes up that Google will solve anything for you..

It will not be wise to come up with a suggestion without looking deeply in to your website. There is a strong possibility that penalty hit your website because of your link profile and not your link structure... Please drop your URL and if the problem is in your link profile then all you have to do is to find out the bad links and kill them accordingly! As a result you will see your rankings will started to come again with the time... if the problem is on the content on usability site then we probably need to look in to changing the content and site structure of the website. At the moment all suggestions are quite blur.. I would appreciate if you drop your URL in order to get some solid information regarding your website.

I came to the same conclusion!

Good question. In your situation I've seen lots of people set up an "Outlet" store on eBay. I think you're right about the duplicate content risk, it would pose an issue. You might want to consider noindex'ing those empty products but that would mean they wouldn't be discoverable on Google itself. Alternatively perhaps if it's a refurbished item you could add a canonical link to the main product's page, and on that main product page link to the empty page so that people can discover it that way.

I am going to agree with everyone here and add that while there are not "limits" on the other H-tags, they don't hold much value anymore. Don't use this as a "tactic" to rank. Spend your time on other things specifically on building relationships in your industry.

But the best solution is the SH404sef?  We will try this tomorrow and I will report back on how it works.  Do you have any other advice you can give?

Thanks for the respons. Responsive design is probably the best option with the best usability users.

Hi, You are right. For Windows server, .htaccess file doesn't work. You need some setting in your windows IIS server. URL writing facility is not available for less than 7 version. If your IIS version is IIS7 or greater then you can solve all SEO related problem by given link http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/20/tip-trick-fix-common-seo-problems-using-the-url-rewrite-extension.aspx Hope my answer will solve you problem.  

I saw that video, yes it is a good one. Interesting theory about the new "spam search queries" I can see that might be an issue with some sites, I'm not sure it is with mine. There is something called "pink filter" that I have heard of that if google determines your website to be porn, it will not allow it when safesearch is on. According to theory if I have not been hit by the "pink filter" I am not labeled porn and should not have my rankings dropped. It does look like Google is changing, I'll keep this in mind.

Hey Omid, I've taken a good look through various websites built with Adobe Muse. These were ones featured in "Site of the Day" on the Adobe website, and so I imagine are considered the best of the best. I'm not impressed by the quality of the code. Perhaps the most worrying thing for me is that things that are clearly semantically headers are being rendered in tags. Additionally there doesn't seem to be any alt text applied to any images on sites I've found running Muse. They also seem to rely on a large number of HTTP requests and many resource seem to be poorly compressed. Without knowing too much about the tool, everything I mentioned could be down to individual designers - but the trend is there. I wouldn't rank their markup too highly, and there's some pretty unoptimised elements on those sites. I think that if your site does well on SERPs with those sites it's probably in spite of your markup. Andrew

Thanks Dan, I will be moving to the new url structure, probably post name as I don't have a lot of "juice" to pass anyway. Thanks to Dana for bringing this up in her answer. In fairness to Synthesis, I believe my question was not clear and on a follow up they gave a very comprehensive response to my question and actually recommended this forum! As to the htaccess issue, I may not understand this but I believe there is no htaccess file since they don't use apache. Quite a bit on them here <a>http://yoast.com/synthesis-managed-wordpress-hosting/</a>

Hello Alex, I was about to give you a different answer but as i was typing i changed my mind! So at first i was thinking that you can't do this as it would create duplicate content but then i realized that was wrong cause it is only a link. DUH! That being said, I suppose you could add the "about us" to the drop down but there is no point and it would look silly. I suppose you could do it and show them and hope they change their mind. If they are a tough client then maybe you can change the first "about us" to something else and not link it so it won't do anything and then add the second "about us" to the drop down. Otherwise I would just tell them that it is redundant and can make things confusing for the users. Again, if they are a stubborn client then just simply give them what they want. Other than being confusing for the user it shouldn't hurt anything. Well I suppose it might make for a confusing sitemap, not that people actually use those. Good luck!

This is am amazing detailed answer. I went through and removed links to the inisignicfia blog entirely. I found some forums I had a signature and removed the sig those on three forums. I took down my entire tumblr. I did a disavow on several domains & subdomanins that "collect" links. Total of over 500 individual links have been removed via webmaster, signature removal, & disavowal tool. I changed/removed anchor text/links on a few other older blogs/forums. Get listed has me as two business, I'll update those so they all match. Citation finder looks amazing I'll dig deeper after lunch. I just added/fixed: Nokia, teleatlas, navteq information I will work on more reviews, (reviews for my clients are a bit tricky due to the nature of my business, but I can get some from my more public clients.) Here is the rel canonical, Is it set up wrong? http://www.bayareaboudoir.com/capture.jpg I fixed the home page anchor text, I'll work on a "logo" I'm not extra concerned about Oakland specific traffic, as my clients come to me from 25 - 200 miles away. I do like the SF page idea... I'll revamp my meta descriptions. your site loads at non-www (bayareaboudoir.com) - this should redirect to www version. not a huge issue, but /index.html should redirect to the main homepage. I'm a little stumped on exactly how to code these? Thanks again

Hi Craig I honestly don't know much about the Magento piece, but I am pretty confident the path doesn't matter much at all, just the file name of the image. -Dan

It's a very real possibility that Google will tag these sites as duplicate content, and only rank the "original" content creator - whatever it deems that to be. It may be more productive to have one site, and a location-specific page for each site.  You can 301 redirect the unique URLs to each location-specific page if you still want to have unique domain names for each location.

Great answer. Also, tables are harder to fix later.. the smaller the page, the less your page "weights" - I think right now you should work on fixing architecture, and the rest of the on page stuff. I'm thinking recoding his site to use divs wouldn't have an immediate impact on user engagement. Time spent best, somewhere else. ( Maybe working on errors in WMT )

Hey Jonathan, I think the above answers pretty much cover what I'd tell you on this one.  I hesitate to ever recommend 302 redirects but it does seem to communicate what is going on.  Hopefully by "short time" you mean days and not weeks.  Otherwise a 301 might be better if organic traffic is crucial to your business functioning for a month or two++.  They effectively do the same thing one just passes link juice more completely. I'd agree with the idea of using rel=canonical to point at your responsive page from the legacy page to indicate the preferred URL and to avoid duplicate content. Thanks for the help above all! Hope that's clear Jonathan.