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I recently noticed a drop in rankings for my site shortly after the new algorithm update.  I'm not sure exactly why rankings went down, but would like to know if it has to do with having videos on our site that do not belong to us.

We have a few videos on product pages that the manufacturer of the product had created.  I was wondering if Google maybe thinks we are maliciously stealing these videos or something and penalizing us for it.  And if stuff like this has anything to do with the recent algorithm update.

We make our own videos, but some of our manufacturer's videos are just better... and they work with us and are glad for us to have their videos listed.

Thanks in advance

I searched a snippet of one of our Articles (in quotes) and got two results back in Google, one for the article on our site and one for our development/staging site.  Does that mean that our development site is getting indexed by Google, even thought we "Disallow:/" in the robots.txt file?  Is this a big duplicate content issue?

Thanks

This question is for MichaelC who was helping me with a previous question that is now closed.  Please refer to my question with Subject "Double 301 Redirect"

It was about redirecting /home.aspx to simply "/" because that was an old URL and we have some backlinks pointing to it.

If the best I could do is redirect "/home.aspx" to something like "#hm", would that work, since everything after the hash symbol is ignored?

Thanks

Clint