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I would love to get some tips. It is both a physical showroom and an e-commerce site. Cornelius

Hey Max, I agree with Lesley here, Google is fetching your previous pages. You need to wait some time to see the latest result but for quick fixing, you can do these things, Run a Screaming Frog and see how many pages it shows. Copy all the links that google is showing into excel sheet and check each one. Block the extra pages through no index tag or redirect them to the relevant current pages if your have. For more information on the indexing and crawling, refer this useful latest WBF from Rand, https://moz.com/blog/controlling-search-engine-crawlers-for-better-indexation-and-rankings-whiteboard-friday Hope this helps! Umar

Thank you so much of your reply, I sorted it out now.  But again thank you very much for your time. Cheers Blair

In addition to John's link to the Moz blog, I also can't recommend the Beginner's Guide to Link Building enough.

okay, My 3 URLs are : http://www.acutehomoeoclinic.com/ http://www.siddhivinayakplastomech.com/ http://www.suntechengineers.com/ please check & give me suggestion steps for,, Thanks

Alright this website looks "Awful". Work on the following on page things as soon as you can before seeing further drop, Update your meta tags, localize them according to your targeted region. Update the whole content and provide fresh, optimized and unique content. This is 2015, you really do no need to add 100s of keywords between your main content twice. (I am referring to the bold/ italic content section and the last green section) Check out these resources to improve your on page SEO, https://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors https://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization As far as the backlinks are concerned, I suspect that they also required serious attention. For now, work on your on site and get rid of all the spammy links that have been built. By keeping your industry in mind, you don't required 100s of links. Work on the page and acquire good handful links, it will be enough. Hope this helps! Umar

Using attributes and combinations is a lot easier and cheaper than not using them. If you create 20 different pages they will all fight each other to rank. You would also need content for 20 different pages as well. Which in itself would be a task if done correctly. I would suggest just having one strong page with good content as opposed to lots of pages with only ok content.

Best would be to reach out to help@moz.com, they might be able to help you directly with this question. For now I would agree with your opinion that these pages shouldn't be seen as spam because of the external links. It's for now just a couple of links to even your own social media properties so they shouldn't do you any harm I'd argue.

That seems like too much work. I would do this instead: Add rel=canonical on the non-/ version Use htaccess to force the non-/ version And update the sitemaps

Hi , Sorry for the late response, been away for a few days. Yes,. it does help alot. Many thanks for your help PEte

Thanks for all the responses! Much appreciated.

The use of the hreflang can be useful anyway, especially from Brand searches (aka: "name of the brand" as search term), because in that case you can see your "local country" web site outranked by your most powerful one despite of the geotargeting you have set up in GWT.

Cheers Everett. You have definitely reset my thinking, id started to make it over complex for myself. The content for the resolution / category pages will create a lot of duplicate issues due to the unavoidable similarities, i will take a combination of solutions provided here and try to consolidate resolution and capacity into broader categories that can be written about as you suggest with less overlap. I will look to no-index smaller categories that would be thin and cause issues but remain essential. I will also stick to my plan and consolidate the "types of widget" onto the main widget page. This will move them a step up the hierarchy and allow me a wider scope of content on the main parent page. All product urls are  homepage.co.uk/product.html by default so shouldnt cause issue in multiple urls. I have also implimented automatic canonical tags on all cateogry and products to combat any accidental duplications.

As you are in the HTACCES file. you can 301 redirect the supicious page to your home..

Part of me thinks this is just because so many live pages still have links to these URLs, and while Google knows they 301, some part of its index maintains the old URLs due to the strength of their presence in the link graph. It might be a technical limitation too, where Google uses synthetic links/URLs in their indices to represent redirected stuff. In any case, not a big concern for Moz, and shouldn't be for you either if you're redirecting a site. So long as the traffic to the pages from search goes back up and indexation looks solid, you should be fine.