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Hi, Paramaya raises a good point, you should use Google Webmaster Tools to set certain URL parameters to be crawled, ignored, ect. However, I wouldn't rush to say you don't want Google crawling those pages, since they may add value in some way. I think you should add canonical tags to the pages with URL parameters that point back to your site's main page. This way, Google knows and crawls the URLs with parameters and attributes value and relevancy to the page being pointed to through the canonical tag. I help run a top 50k ecommerce website, we use canonical tags and GWT to handle such issues.

Hi Nick, you've received several great responses. Did any of them help you resolve your issue? Christy

Hi Nick, I noticed that as well it is definitely in the header, but it is currently not been found by tools that mimic google bot. I am running a DeepCrawl.co.uk scan of the site as we speak I will post it when it is finished. 3ULqxz4.png

Well, that's hard as I don't know your URLs and your parameters. You need to come up with a solution that covers all, but also avoid any duplicate content issues by redirecting the parameter based URL to rewrote ones. Let's say the file serving paintball masks and goggles is: Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx The parameter Manufacturer only shows the ones from that manufacturer. But does the naked URL shows all? If yes, then you have to noindex all of those with the parameter set. If no, then you can use some URL rewrite rules to make "static/easy to read URLs" using something like this: RewriteRule ^Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles/(.*)$ Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx?Manufacturer=$1 [L] This means that users accessing to /Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles/Empire will see the same page as /Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx?Manufacturer=Empire but on a friendlier way. That is if you have lots of manufacturers for paintball masks and goggles. Or if you have many manufacturers but not that many products from each, you can also write a different rule like: RewriteRule ^(.*)/Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles$ Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx?Manufacturer=$1 [L] Which will produce the same effects, but putting the manufacturer name on the from of the URL: /Empire/Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles. This not only involves creating some set or rewrite rules but also changing the code in your site to use the new URL structure you are creating with the rewrite rules. If you don't have the knowledge to make this kind of changes, I suggest you contact a web developer to carry on all the necessary steps. Feel free to private message me if you need more help.

Sure, 301 redirecting them to corresponding pages would be fine. Before doing that, however, be sure that the microsites aren't under a penalty.  Your drinkingstuff.com site seems safe from my quick inspection; ranks well for "drinking gifts". On IIS, you can use the IIS rewrite rule module to do your redirects (it's just going to add statements to your web.config file).