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Hi,

I think that my example URL already fits the criteria for the three main benefits of URLs: It does make sense, it is relevant to the page/product (if not necessarily the actual keywords) and it is descriptive as anchor text while containing some of the appropriate keywords.

Thanks for the response and for the link, I had managed to miss that page.

Robots.txt!  That makes sense.  I'll do that.

Thanks for your response.

Hi,

Ach, having looked the headers for our listings on one of the affiliate sites I can see that they have a canonical tag that points to their own site.  Ok; now i know.

Thank you both for your help

Hi,

9 of my tracked keywords have dropped by over 20 ranks since last week.  The nastiest drops in ranking are by 36, 38, and 46 places.

For the last month I have been chipping away at the duplicate content with 301 redirects and was expecting my keyword rankings to improve slightly as a result of this; not the opposite.

I don't have any manual actions logged against my site and am at a bit of a loss to explain this sudden drop.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.