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You're welcome! I think having a temporary option is great if there's enough mobile traffic coming to your website that you know it's vital for your customers. You can always put a "full, un-optimized for mobile" site link to allow mobile users to get out of the mobile interface if they can't find what they're looking for in the temporary mobile site.

My CMS is Sitecore

Thanks everyone.

Hey, There's an old SEOmoz article by Rand explaining why it's unlikely that you've been affected by incoming 'black hat' links. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-if-my-competitors-point-spammy-links-to-my-site Have you found any definite backlinks from paid link sites?

A few things I noticed: Almost all your pages try to get /skin/frontend/blank/default/css/menu.css once and /js/livechat/js.js twice, and these files don't exist and return a 404. Are you allowed to change that 404 page to something more suited to your site, with your header and footer?  If so, I'd change it from the hostgator default. #5 could be quite an undertaking... positioning the text just right, controlling for wrapping in different browsers. I'd start by adding alt text to the images first, so Google can read that and know what the image is supposed to be of.

That sounds like a great approach. The effectiveness is going to be impacted by "how you do it".....  Big newspaper sites make their living from getting visitors to read more pages so visit some like NYTimes, LATimes, CNN, etc to get ideas on how they present.... Recommended, most read, most emailed, popular, etc links.

Well, you basically just described Basecamp but you need something like FreshBooks - http://www.freshbooks.com/ - for the invoicing part. Nothing I know of that does both parts though. EDIT: Maybe you try something you host yourself with a wiki software or something like - http://www.activecollab.com/ - or - http://collab.ws/. Basecamp alternatives - https://company.podio.com/ - http://www.zoho.com/projects/ - http://lighthouseapp.com/ - http://goplanapp.com/

Thanks everyone, especially for the tips regarding apps for the Ipad.

It turns out the canonical feature was not turned on in my global settings for my category pages. We should do better on t he next crawl. Thanks

Put a asp:placeholder or asp:literal in masterpage. When you want to have a canonical-tag from an inheriting page, just give placeholder / literal value.

I would prefer 301 before canonical. This is because you don't loose as much link juice/pagerank when using 301 as you are when using canonical. In this scenario, it's best to act like Matt Cutts says in the attached video. Take a look at the vid' and please don't hesitate to ask further questions to me watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA

Yes the code would remain the same.

Thanks for the response, Ryan. I'm leaning towards Joomla! as they seem to have more options for each feature and a more supportive community, which I will certainly need.

really appreciate it guys thanks I've taken all this into account , really shed some light on what i need to be fixing.

Hey Ryan, It isn't really a competition thing because I bounce back to the same or better sport after about 30 days, so it seems very algorithmic.  I just haven't been able to figure what/how I am getting penalized.  However, this morning while looking at some rankings I noticed a dev page was indexed and in Google's rankings so I said "Ah oh...." and went to see my developer hadn't blocked out our development directory... which means if Google deep indexes a site every so often they would probably crawl it and find an exact copy of the live site... The 60-90 deep indexing would also make sense as the ranking drop has always occurred around the 27th of the month. Once I block out /dev what do you think would be the best way to get Google to re-crawl the site and perhaps remove any duplicate issues - delete out my robots.txt and sitemaps from Google and re-submit them?

I was hoping with all Google's trillion mega billion dollars they'd be able to discern something like that.  Boy - I should have been a math major.

I'm not sure I understand your question John, and the second URL is a 404. Could you expand your question a bit? Thanks!