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Hi Karen, Spot on! Thanks for that I've been pulling my hair out on it. March (not provided) rocketed. There are other things at play but this is definitely part of the issue. You Rock! Bush

Thanks Harold, There's no reason we can see its being rejected, we've tried the above steps and have submitted a contact and awaiting a response. Thanks for your help! Bush

It is something Google is doing, and I've seen other complaints about it here as well. As far as I know, there's nothing you can do about it.

Thanks Guys Have a great weekend, Bush

I don't know the frequency because I am only checking SERPs about once per day... but I do see a lot of shuffle in product and product category SERPs - especially in positions #4 through #20. Perhaps we are seeing "experimental SERPs".... google runs lots of experiments. .... or, maybe twitter or FB mentions are hitting these SERPs?

Thanks Yannick - really helpful cheers and have a good weekend Bush

Wayne gave a good answer. From a great deal of research I have found that a 301 redirect loses some of the link juice to avoid people abusing the power of building many domains and then forwarding them all to one main domain. In my opinion this is well worth it still especially when you don't have to go through the work to have established the link portfolio. One thing to look out for though is making sure that the link portfolio really is as good as you think it is. Look into the backlinks and see if they are from reputable sources which will stay there or if thy are just a mass of profile backlinks and comment spam which could just make it seem like they have a lot of good links or even get those links removed later on. At the very least the 301 redirect will help get the robots to your site to increase crawl frequency which i find to be great when you want your pages to be indexed and updated quickly on google.

Hi Bush, Not as far as I'm aware (I did a quick search for this, looking at posts from the last month or so). If you're curious (and nobody else chimes in here with more information) I would suggest you analyse ranking changes for your clients against their main competitors. If you see those changes reflected across the board for Yahoo UK rankings, then it's probably a good sign there have been some changes to the algorithm. Hope that helps! Carlo

This is called 'pagerank sculpting'. It was used in the past to make sure the links that didn't have nofollow received a larger amount of link juice (as the link juice that was passed by a page was split by the number of links back then). There was a 'recent' change in the way internal nofollow links are treated, that renders this practice pretty much useless nowadays. Read more about it here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting