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Strange. I can't tell what you are doing as a redirect. Usually firebug in Firefox gives that information. I would have your tech person make sure that you have a 301 redirect to your main domain if you don't already.

You need to replace ##caturl## with whatever the actual url is for each page.

You mentioned seeing links from the non www domain. Where are you seeing these links?

Yes, you can delete a campaign. Just go to the settings and click the delete button.

Can Google deal with "search engine safe" parameters? I added our sort stuff to Webmaster tools but I'm not sure Google knows what to do and can't find any info on this.

So I've been wracking my brain about a problem. I had posted earlier about our degrading rank that we haven't been able to arrest. I thought we were doing everything right.

Many years ago we had a program that would allow other stores in our niche use our site as a storefront if they couldn't deal with setting up their own site. They would have their own homepage with their own domain but all links from that page would go to our site to avoid duplicate content issues (before I knew about canonical meta tags or before they existed, I don't remember).

I just realize that we had dozens of these domains pointing to our site without nofollow meta tags. Is it possible that this pattern looked like we were trying to game Google and have been penalized as some kind of link farm since Panda?

I've added nofollow meta tags to these domains. If we were being penalized for this, should this fix the problem?

I must be missing the meaning of "special price".

That makes sense but should I be doing anything with rel canonical to make sure that each sort option doesn't display a different canonical url?

On an ecommerce site there are typically a lot of pages that may appear to be duplications due to category browse results where the only difference may be the sorting by price or number of products per page.

How best to deal with this? Add nofollow to the sorting links? Set canonical values that ignore these variables? Set cononical values that match the category home page?

Is this even a possible problem with Panda or spiders in general?

Since these parts of the site aren't anything a spider would be seeing anyway, it really doesn't matter how you get people to the next page.

I typically tell spiders not to even go to folders for things like accounts and checkout.

Thank you for pointing out the 302 error. That was an easy fix. Do you have any recommendations for someone who we can hire to look at the site? I saw that you are currently all booked up.

We have almost 8000 Facebook followers and 1800 Twitter followers. We held an e-reader giveaway earlier this year that really boosted our Facebook fans.

We regularly use hash tags for broad topics in our niche and also participate in conversations.

Re Articles: Most were written with quality and search terms in mind but I am sure that we could go back through and tweak them, especially the links internal to each article. We also haven't done a good job of letting people know they are there to encourage back links. The paper rater is a neat tool. I tested a couple and they rate high b's.

I guess what drives me most nuts about this is that apart from the company on top, we're the only one who is doing anything for seo (as far as we can tell) and yet we still have fallen.

The section for buying your dvd training lists the price for everyone at $119 and the special price for pro members at - $119.

Then the text says that the special price will be shown when the item is added to the cart where the special price is - $119.

Am I missing something here?

The same player that was at the top then is there still. We've always been number two behind them. No dominant site has taken our place. It's like we just fell back into the masses of 2nd-tier sites. We still rank well for some of the main keywords that we used to but others we have fallen to the third and fourth page or vanished altogether.

We run a religious e-commerce site at Aquinas and More Catholic Goods.

In 2009 we peaked in organic site traffic. During that time we received traffic for 276,000 different keywords.

Since then our organic traffic from Google only has fallen almost 45% and our unique keyword traffic has dropped to 195,000.

During that time I thought we were doing everything right:

• We wrote over 300 articles on our site
• We got on Facebook and started posting regularly.
• We got on Twitter and tweeted several times a week both about our niche topic and our store
• We launched a new product review site and took on bloggers as product reviewers
• The reviews the bloggers write link to our store, the product and some valuable keywords in every post and there have been a couple of hundred written
• We've done about 20 Youtube videos

And yet, here we are with our organic Google traffic down 45%.Alexa has dropped us 200,000 spots.

At this point I feel like the house is burning down around me and really don't know where to turn to get this trend reversed. Any suggestions on a clear path forward?