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Hi, my site is www.in2town.co.uk and i am looking at ranking for lifestyle magazine but i am a bit worried.

The titles of the articles on the home page are h2, and i am just wondering if i should change this to h3 as it may get confusing for google.

Can anyone let me know if i should keep the article titles as h2 or if i am right that they need to be changed to h3 or something else

any help would be great

hi, just looking into why one of the authors has all the content going there, very strange and very bad for my rankings. for some reason it seems the person who upgraded the site has got all the content going onto author pages, never had this before so i need to get to the bottom of this

Hi, i have a serious duplicate page issue and not sure how it happened and i am not sure if anyone will be able to help as my site was built in joomla, it has been done through k2, i have never come across this issue before

i am seem to have lots of duplicate pages under author names, example

http://www.in2town.co.uk/blog/diane-walker this page is showing the full articles which is not great for seo and it is also showing that there are hundreds more articles at the bottom

on the semoz tool i am using, it is showing these as duplicates although there are hundreds of them and it is causing google to see lots of duplicate pages.

Diane Walker
http://www.in2town.co.uk/blog/diane-walker/Page-2 5 1 0
Diane Walker
http://www.in2town.co.uk/blog/diane-walker/Page-210 1 1 0
Diane Walker
http://www.in2town.co.uk/blog/diane-walker/Page-297 1 1 0
Diane Walker
http://www.in2town.co.uk/blog/diane-walker/Page-3 5 1 0
Diane Walker

can anyone please help me to sort this important issue out.

thank you for that, great advice. I have had to do a lot of work since the upgrade with getting the site back to normal so all this help is great.

thank you for this, just ran a report and got the following results, http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.in2town.co.uk&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

so i am going to try and learn what they are and learn what i need to do to fix them, many thanks for your help

hi, sorry it is www.in2town.co.uk

Hi, this keeps on happening, just check early today and it tells me i have access denied and 403 errors

I have this from time to time in my google webmaster tools and i have checked the pages and they work properly, so i am puzzled why this has happened. I have contacted my hosting company who have said there is not a problem but there must be a problem somewhere which could affect my site rankings.

can anyone let me know what this could be please. i work in joomla

| parenting-magazine | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 2 | personal-finance-money-advice | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 3 | 201308081607/emmerdale/emmerdale-chas-confronts-cameron-over-affair-with-debbie | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 4 | 201308081606/emmerdale/emmerdale-declan-gets-a-visit-from-the-police | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 5 | 201308081608/emmerdale/emmerdale-cameron-debbie-affair-is-out-in-the-open | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 6 | 201308081614/uk-holiday-news/visitscotland-launch-campaign-to-boost-tourism | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 7 | dog-advice/training-your-puppy-a-beginners-guide | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 8 | gadgets/hp-envy-13-laptop-review | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 9 | gadget-talk/everyday-smartphone-gadgets-which-could-revolutionise-your-life | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 10 | news-gadgets/the-htc-one-mobile-phone-review | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 11 | gadget-talk/five-iphone-apps-for-home-improvement | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 12 | gadget-talk/are-android-apps-useful-for-business-success | 403 | 8/10/13 |
| | 13 | gadget-talk/television-gadgets-the-future-of-television-is-coming | 403 | 8/10/13 |

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cheers for that

hi, the title of the menu link was Hypno Gastric Band  for some reason the developer changed it to gastric band hypnotherapy. do you feel this should be changed back or come up with a new menu link

the developer which i got rid of, was supposed to make sure that the staging was not indexed, i have put a do not follow in the robots file last week as i was not aware of the problem before that, not sure how to now get google to get rid of all the staging, i have been trying to find out in my site where he has redirected the staging but cannot find the place, this is causing me problems as many live articles under staging are going to the home page, so i really do not know what to do now.

can you explain more on the below

the new site has a sitewide anchor text link "gastric band hypnotherapy" in the main menu, whereas the old site did not. Google takes the overoptimized back links, adds it up with the new overoptimized internal links and that could have triggered something.

since the upgrade the whole site bombed in the rankings while before that the site was fine

thank you for this, will do this now, many thanks for the great advice

that sounds like a great solution, can you explain how i would do this, as never done this before

the problem i have is, these upgrade files like this one

staging1/jupgrade2/component/k2/item/475-gastric-band-hypnotherapy-expert-says-government-are-not-doing-enough-to-fight-obesity

this is a live article, so google is seeing the live url address which is http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-band-hypnotherapy/gastric-band-hypnotherapy-expert-says-government-are-not-doing-enough-to-fight-obesity

and then they are seeing the upgrade file which is

www.in2town.co.u,/staging1/jupgrade2/component/k2/item/475-gastric-band-hypnotherapy-expert-says-government-are-not-doing-enough-to-fight-obesity

all the upgrade files have been redirected to my home page, not sure this is right.

Hi, just been going through my google webmaster tools and i have found a number of soft 404 errors and was shocked to see these redirects going to my home page.

| URL | Response Code | Detected |
| --- | --- | --- |<colgroup><col style="width: 45px;"><col style="width: 80px;"><col><col style="width: 120px;"><col style="width: 90px;"></colgroup>
| | 1 | staging1/jupgrade2/component/k2/item/475-gastric-band-hypnotherapy-expert-says-government-are-not-doing-enough-to-fight-obesity |   | 7/25/13 |
| | 2 | staging1/jupgrade2/category-menu/item/1068-coronation-street-nick-proposes-to-leanne |   | 7/28/13 |
| | 3 | staging1/jupgrade2/category-menu/item/1086-coronation-street-fiz-nearly-gets-tyrone-in-trouble-with-kirsty |   | 7/28/13 |
| | 4 | staging1/jupgrade2/category-menu/item/1155-coronation-street-kylie-considers-telling-david-about-her-affair |   | 7/28/13 |
| | 5 | staging1/jupgrade2/category-menu/item/1157-coronation-street-fiz-is-worried-when-kirsty-pays-her-a-visit |   | 7/28/13 |
| | 6 | staging1/jupgrade2/component/k2/item/750-actress-hilary-duff-is-sued-over-car-accident |   | 7/25/13 |
| | 7 | staging1/jupgrade2/component/k2/item/843-what-your-dogs-bottom-scooting-behaviour%E2%80%99-really-meansI would have thought that the developer who upgraded my site would have either had these blocked or directed them to the correct page. i am now guessing that there are going to be hundreds of these appearing and would like some serious advice.normally with old pages i would have them going to the relevant articles or pages but it seems the developer has redirected hundreds of these to my home page, which i guess is going to confuse google. i would like to know if this will confuse google have all these pages going to my home page.i have tried to find out where the developer in my site has redirected the pages as they are not in my htaccess file, i use joomla.can anyone let me know what i should be doing with these to solve the problemmany thanks |

hi, something very unusual is happening with my site. a few months ago before we updated our site, i mean upgraded it, we would be indexed every day, now it seems we are getting indexed every four days, and now today i have noticed something very strange, this morning when i checked my site www.in2town.co.uk it was cached 31st july, but this afternoon it is showing 25th july.

can anyone please let me know why this has happened

many thanks

i will do and thanks

Hi, i am going to be applying to have out site in google news but i have come across the below and not sure how we do this.

I use joomla and our site is www.in2town.co.uk and the page we are including is

http://www.in2town.co.uk/latest-news-headlines

Article URLs. To make sure that we only crawl new articles, please make sure your URLs are unique with at least 3 digits, and are permanent.

can anyone please let me know how i do this with the url please

hi, thanks for that. it just seems strange that the site has always done well and then some of our important keywords has dropped out of the top 50

a possibility but cannot see google doing that much damage, but i could be wrong

The site has had a complete overhaul, we had it completed in May of this year.  I had some information about the magazine on the home page but as soon as i took it off as it was looking unprofessional we dropped by a few pages.