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You likely have a .htaccess issue causing a rewrite error.   You may want to examine or replace your .htaccess with a default.   Also, I've seen some plugins cause this error. What is happening is this: http://www.atozqualityfencing.com/newsite is sent to: http://www.atozqualityfencing.com/newsite/ Note the trailing slash. But that page is returning a 404 error. If I go to http://www.atozqualityfencing.com/newsite/index.php it redirects to http://www.atozqualityfencing.com/newsite/ So there is likely something wrong in the redirect rules.   I would try disabling all plugins. If that fails, compare the current htaccess to a default one and remove any modifications. .

Have you setup your https version of the site in webmaster tools as a separate site, if not I would and then I would submit a https sitemap on this profile. I would also 301 redirect the http to https across the site - you may find this previous question useful - http://moz.com/community/q/best-method-of-redirecting-http-to-https-on-homepage

2 years back....that's going to be right in the middle of a lot of Google algo changes, both Panda and Penguin.  It might be just a coincidence that your traffic drop was around when the hacking happened. Have you done a backlink analysis?  It could be that the hackers also planted a ton of crappy links in the hopes of short-term getting your site to rank well for whatever they're trying to inject into your site and sell. Sounds like you're doing the right thing with the URLs though.  To do a double-check on the duplicate content side, you could run Screaming Frog against it, and check for duplicate page titles and meta descriptions.  If your pages are getting spit out with multiple URLs, you'll see them all show up with duplicates.

hemblem5 has started this off perfectly. Firstly, yes I do live in the UK. A caching issue could potentially be the problem, it'd be interesting to see if that's what fixed the issue. Just to expand on hemblem5's point, the best way to see exactly how many pages Google has indexed, is by using the search operator **site: **(kudos to hemblem5 for mentioning) Using this search operator on both the US and UK site, we can see the following results: site:itelligencegroup.com/uk/ Google is currently indexing 1,160 pages vs. site:us.itelligencegroup.com Google is currently indexing 879 pages We can also see that when using: site:itelligencegroup.com Google is currently indexing 3,130 pages From a quick look at the above, I can also see that the domain has 3 sub-domains: us.itelligencegroup.com blog.itelligencegroup.com 975 pages indexed myaccount.itelligencegroup.com 7 pages indexed I think going forward, the best thing to do would be to see how many pages you actually have across the site. If there all being indexed then there's no huge issue regarding making changes. If they're not then I recommend following my advice in the previous post. A good tool to use to find all your pages is Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool. However I would recommend running the tool outside of peak visiting hours as it can sometimes cause the host server to slow down in response time due to the large number of requests. If you have any questions just ask. Let me know how you get on. Thanks SilverDoor

I agree with alecfwilson, especially the part about superfluous directories. One thing I'd add, since it's probably a wash whether you use "products" or "shop". See if either word gets used in searches for the products your selling. This won't be the case in everything you sell online, but sometimes the words "product, shop, store" get used in the searches. If everything else is equal, I'd pick the url structure that includes the words most used in searches ... ONLY if you can also do that while maintaining a natural, semantic, streamlined url path. B1Xn2Tt.png

I would just make sure your planning and implementation is impeccable. 1. Make sure the person doing the redirects is organized and competant, especially if you have a large number of pages. 2. Make sure that your new sitemap contains all the new URLs, so you can get any new content indexed quickly as possible. 3. Try to come up with a "newsworthy" way of stating that you have made the change. Once you have a really nice article written about the change and how it benefits your consumer base, create a high level press release through PR web or the like for distribution. 4. Resubmit the home page and all linking URLs in webmaster under "fetch as google" 5. See how you can combine tracking data from the old site into the new, so you can keep track of mon-mon and year-year progress from the transition. Thats a good place to start. Other than the basics, content and social shares are going to be what drives in new or additional traffic.

Can you show some of the code that the sitemap displays? I would think the tags have to exist on the page somewhere, in order for the sitemap to be pulling them in. Could it possibly be from a sidebar or module position header that is rendering the same H tags? Try running the different pages in SEO Browser, to see if the pages physically are the same. After entering your URL, click simple: http://seo-browser.com/

Thanks for the advice Pixel by Pixel. Sounds good to me!

This is probably the side of the fence that I fall on in terms of this issue. If I see that obtaining links from paid directories isn't only not hurting our major competitors, but actually seemingly helping them rank on the first page and outrank us for many keywords, then I am natually going to assume that those links are helping their rankings. One of our major competitors outranks us for more than one of our main targetted keywords and, having checked their link profile again today, they clearly invest a lot in obtaining links from directories, not many of them are relevant, what you would call reputable on first look and one is French, not even being in the site's own language! Furthermore, although they don't do it for every link they have on directory sites, they have many links that use keyword-specific anchor text. Now, this is something that I would hesitate doing as often as they do, rather I would use branded anchor text when unsure of the validity of a link as I would expect that to carry less of a penalty if that were to happen, but it's clearly not hurting their rankings, instead seeming to help them. In any case, this is why I referred to the use of directory links as somewhat of a grey area - it's not completely clear as to whether it's a viable link-building option or not. Given what I've seen of our competitors, I have to come to the conclusion that it's worth the risk.

Thank you Miriam. Yes those posts did help and have set me straight on H1 tags.

Hey, if I PayPal you $25 and give you my login details, could you modify the header.php file and get the dropdown menu to work? I'm sure it'd take just a few minutes. I don't know that much PHP. My e-mail address is in my Moz profile -- feel free to e-mail there.

No problem man. I'm not an expert but obsessed with internet marketing and coding. This site is fantastic once you really explore and use it, nothing beats it in my opinion.  I also really like SEO podcasts.  The best ones being "SEO Podcast Unknown Secrets of Internet Marketing" and on webmasterradio they have SEO 101 and a couple others.  I just download them all and listen while in car. Things change on a daily basis and its a great way to keep up yo date and get ideas.  Sorry to go off topic, but I learned that Keyword research is so vital in the beginning before development.  Then it's content is king., You make killer content and the links will come naturally.  Only get backlinks if its relevant and if you think people would click it..(if you have the opportunity.) I'm working on adding directories to my site, but modern ones with reviews and maps.  I LOVE scripting (mainly in bash) but found it all such a hassle getting API's..eventually it costs money or right from the beginning.   Sure you could scrape but that violates their terms and not a good idea. I'm trying to figure out an algorithm myself as I want it to be legit, but will have a small Google ads-like section up top that is clearly labeled as ads.  If you figure out a good method other than manual please let me know.  I doubt Alexa cares if you view their site a few times a day through a textual browser but still...I want to do it by the book and its one of those things where its probably faster to do manually anyways I just love automation.  Wish API's werent required so darn much, but understand it thanks to stupid spammers. Ruins it for webmasters looking to get good content.

Thanks.  I'm hoping the next Penguin refresh shows improvement.  The consensus seems to be that to recover from a Penguin penalty is a matter of the refresh happens to see any changes.

I totally apologize.  I only said that because I've only seen women doing video gigs.  Most feminists consider me one, although I don't.  I believe in total equality, I"m very feminine myself, and HATE how women have and still are being abused all over the world. Where I disagree with a lot of feminists is the language police political correctness stuff. Also you can see the videos beforehand, and sellers can have addons.  I've seen one fivverr gig to get mentioned on a national radio program....but you could pay him up to $550 and get like a 10 minute commercial. The women on fiverr (in the demos at least) look professional, and not picking them because of their attractiveness, but because of their ability to read something and make it seem natural. But yea sorry for the comment.  I was tired lastnight and normally wouldn't use the word "chick".  It's a thing in southern california, but at the same time I wish people wouldn't make such a big deal about words.  That's what gives them so much power.

Yep!

Out of interest, I have stopped using the tool altogether now. I use SEO cockpit for keyword research. I wish I could still be using Moz, but its just so limited there is not point.

If the profiles were in their own directory, like domain.com/profile/user1, it'd be easy to exclude /profile/ in robots.txt. However, your profiles look like they're off the root. In your software system, is there any way to add a noindex tag to profile pages, or make any type of control over indexing of types of pages? Is there one main section (folder) of your website that has content that you want optimized? You could also set up a campaign for just that folder, such as domain.com/myimportantcontent/.

Had a bit of the same feeling when I read it from top > bottom. But if you read it the other way around it sounds way better in my opinion as you start with the better quality links instead of the weaker links (directories, web 2.0 profiles).