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Thanks for the reply mate. It's going to be tricky to run two separate site because our CRM is also storing info used by the front end (sorry I should of mentioned this before!). Really hoping we can find a good way to service both regions from the single site.

Thanks for the input. I like the idea if hiring local and hadn't really considered it since I didn't want to narrow my options. But Seattle seems like a good place to get quality SEO.

If you have links to 100 category pages on your homepage and each of those category pages links to links to 100 subcategory pages, each linking to 100 products then that should give you 1 million products, none deeper than three clicks from home.

No opinions here... just facts.... PDF files show in your Google backlinks PDF files can contain anchor text backlinks PDF files accumulate pagerank PDF files pass pagerank If you place obvious links in PDF files people will click them and land onto your .html pages Other people sometimes grab your PDF files and place them on their own website giving you backlinks from their domain if you were smart enough to embed links within them PDF files can be optimized, rank high in the search engines and pull in a LOT of traffic Some types of content displays and prints much better  in a PDF file than it does on a webpage PDF files allow you to control the "look" of printed documents A huge report is often better posted as a PDF than as html documents You can lock PDF documents to keep others from monkeying with your content (determined people will get around this). Contrary to popular belief, PDF documents can be monetized... just toss in a shopping link or links to pages where money can be made.  I have not heard of anyone paying for ad space in a PDF but there is no reason why that could not be done.

Thank you Cyrus I will certainly read the blog post and consider the noindex, nofollow on content with a canonical tag that differs from the current served page' uri. I am still at little confused as to why the SEOMOZ crawl is highlighting duplicate pages when the canonical tag is present and pointing to the primary content. Take the following example page for example:- http://www.planksclothing.com/planks-classic-t-shirt-black-multi.html Firstly the page has a canonical tag. There is no search on the site and product is viewed a root level without directory structure, which in a Magento instance is the common problem with duplicate content... Currently at the time of writing SEOMOZ is updating my duplicate repor, so I can't find out what is the duplicate content. Maybe it is updating to say it is not Thanks Amendment: After reading the supplied blog post (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world) I have learn't that the above page is just not different and probably is in the area of "Thin Content".

Are you serving the same page for both /MBA and /mba?  You should set up a 301 redirect from one to the other. In Analytics, you can set a custom filter to make your URLs case insensitive, but I don't believe that'll fix the data currently in your account, it'll only fix them going forward.  That process is outlined here: http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90397. My URLs are all lowercased so I can't actually find an example in my account to test, but when I do an advenced filter and select Include Page with the match type of "Matching RegExp" and try URLs with uppercase characters, Analytics appears to be making the query case insensitive.  So you can try that as well. If the prior paragraph didn't work for you, you can do this on a URL by URL basis, by doing an advanced search by regular expression and substituting in "[M|m][B|b][A|a]" for "mba".

The pagination tags should help clear things up for the spiders.

Hi Jimmy, I do not have any hard data to refute what you are experiencing; however, I will share it is highly likely the spike is related to other factors and the TLD being .org or .com is completely unrelated. It would be an exceptionally major change for Google to change how they value TLDs. Such a change would be front page news on all the SEO sites.

In my opinion the best solution is to automate the process. For any site with user generated content or where content is being added frequently, I set up a CRON job to create and submit a sitemap daily. It really is a one time, set it and forget it type of thing.

Satchmo does this automatically - http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/configuration.html?highlight=trailing slash - however, as far as I can see from the documentation and forums there's no way to disable it I'm unfamiliar with Satchmo though, hit up the Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/topics -  and ask there.

You are right, these are &%*#(&d.  I don't see any usable pattern given the new URLs must use IDs from the new system (first example).  The second also needs new information (category) which no Regex will ever do. In that case you have a few options: Create a search function on the 404 page that will take the relevant part of the URL and perform a search on the new catalogue.  This won't be perfect but at least the visitors will get useful information to act on. If only a few 100 are important, write a individual rule for each page.  This can be done in a XSL file to speed up the process but it is a lot of work. After the top pages are finished, redirect the rest to catalogue home. Seriously consider upgrading to URL Rewrite 2 which can perform redirects against a databases of URLs.  This is more tedious and expensive but it allows you to add thousands of URL pairs – far more than any txt file should ever hold for performance reasons.  You can even write your own logic in the provider to do some of the search functions.  Then it behaves like #1 but redirect immediately to the best match. Good luck!

Thank you for suggesting this. I didn't want to submit a ticket if I was doing something wrong (which is probably the issue). However, I cannot seem to resolve this so I think you're right; I'm going to submit a ticket. Thanks!

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?

Thanks everyone.

Its cool, your previous questions didn't really get answered... and my answer was posted twice so above is the edited one. Whoops!

Thanks for your reply. You are talking about product pages, which is very specific. I am talking about category and subcategory pages where products are in grids, those pages are for main kws. Thanks