The adwords tool lets you see global and local searches for the territories you specify - does that answer your question?

About ranking on .com vs .no ....well, there's a bunch of things to consider there. A basic step is geotargeting - check out http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webmaster-tools-international-seo-geo-targeting-site-with-worldwide-rankings you can set in GWT which countries your site is aimed at.

For a more comprehensive discussion look at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

thanks, but the 'scrape similar' extension in chrome doesn't seem to behave in the same way as importxml on google docs or xpathonurl in niels bosma's seotools for excel

I did a quick scan through the links on OSE and it seems like many of them are links with anchor text that matches your products 100%  - I certainly didn't do any kind of exhaustive or thorough review. Perhaps you could try using this http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-profile-tool-to-discover-linking-activity to compare your link profile against competitors?

By spammy, I meant (for example) your site appearing in a long list of unrelated sites - in what is obviously a paid link. I'm not sure if that would be the cause though.

BTW, I just noticed that I'm seeing a toolbar pagerank of 1, if the site had a higher toolbar pagerank before, that might be a clue that google has somehow devalued your site...but I'd treat that with a heavy pinch of salt.

Like Brian, I see you on page one of google US (I tried plastic bins) and DA is lower than others, in fact I'd say you're actually doing rather well compared to the other sites!

Hi Ade, didn't we meet up at LinkLove? Hope things are going well.

Try this:

RewriteRule ^chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-.+ https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana [R=301,L]

The underscore was a problem as was the $ at the end

using -.+ at the end to avoid matching the target url

I tried that with regexr and it seems to work ok, not used it in an htaccess

Tyler, don't worry too much about the page rank - it only gets updated a few times each year and is (at best) a very, very rough measure.

Ads are fine and the one you've described sounds perfectly okay.

I'm in the UK and used geoedge proxy to search google.com - that showed your site about half-way down the serp. Try a new browser, if you use firefox, install chrome/safari/opera and try a few searches on one of them..but two of us have reported you're ranking okay...

You could also try adding &pws=0 to the end of the url after you've done a google search to try and de-personalise it.

Also, there are a stack of rank checkers...have you tried any, seomoz has one.

Are you seeing a fall-off in search traffic commensurate with the drop you're seeing in rankings? If yes, then investigate further, if no, then perhaps there's nothing to worry about.

Agree with Rasmus pm the whole.

I'd still go with the updated subfolder version even if google has crawled the pages...these things take a while to settle down.

If there are lots of pages, check out the tool Russ Jones shared for using Levenshtein distance to automate creating redirects http://www.seomoz.org/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream

There's another great post for larger sites that could help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/scripting-seo-5-pandafighting-tricks-for-large-sites-14455

And here's another version that creates the htaccess redirects for you (though I've not tried it so don't know how well it works) http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2010/10/levinshtein_link_fixer_aka_the.htm

ALM gives you a 30 day free trial - you might need to download their AWR product which includes ALM.  It's here http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/download.html

BTW, I'm linking AWR, not so sure about ALM

A relatively painless way (if .htaccess is too hard for your contact to implement) is to use rel canonical to point to the url you want since Google and Bing will (eventually) notice your canonical tag.

So, for http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm you could add a tag like the one below into your index.htm file in the head section:

You should also make sure that any links to the home page refer to http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com rather than http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm

See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 for more info on rel canonical

Having said that, a 301 redirect is probably the best way to solve the problem.

BTW, I'm assuming it is an Apache server and so uses .htaccess - IIS can be a bit more tricky (see http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis#chaining for IIS redirects)

You could use something like this in the .htaccess file (always make a backup copy of the .htaccess file before saving it in case something goes wrong - typos etc.):

BACKUP EXISTING .htaccess FIRST!!!

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

may need to uncomment the next line depending on host

#Options +FollowSymlinks

add www for non www pages - you may not need these two lines

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cascadevillagehotel.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The following redirect is the one for index.htm assumes the default page is /

redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/