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Have you claimed the site in Google Webmaster Tools? If not, I suggest doing so at http://www.google.com/webmasters and then you will be able to see if Google has encountered any errors lately and/or you can change the crawl rate if necessary.

If you haven't already done so, I recommend testing your robots.txt file against one of your mobile pages (such as m.healthline.com/treatments) in Google Webmaster Tools. You can do this by logging into GWT, then click Health, then Blocked URLs.

If you have already tested it in GWT, can you let us know what the results said?

http://ahrefs.com will show you the links you have lost.

I'm willing to bet that the reason you are seeing a 98% drop in traffic from simply changing a theme is that the Google Analytics tracking code was not properly installed on the new theme.  I know you already mentioned that you checked with your programmer and didn't find any problems with the tracking code itself, but I can see that the GA account numbers are two different accounts. I checked the source code of a page using the current theme as well as a cached version from the old theme and the Google Analytics tracking account numbers are different.

This is the page in question - http://www.incredibleinfant.com/safety/pacifier-use/

**Current theme -  ** _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-28262936-1']);

**Cached theme - ** _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-32310484-1']);  (Google cache from April 5th, 2013)

So if you are looking at the Google Analytics data for the 323 account, then that's why you are seeing a 98% drop in traffic once the new theme was installed. The actual data should be captured in the 282 profile, which you hopefully have access to.

And it's not surprising that you've noticed some rankings drop since that often happens when doing a site overhaul if the site architecture, internal linking structure, on-site SEO are not kept exactly the same. This decrease in rankings is likely only temporary as the search engines will recrawl and reindex the new versions of the pages.

Hope that helps!

Well, all they do is switch the names of the accounts. I'm not sure what Tourism Australia's username was before, but Twitter switched their username over to australia and that way Tourism Australia's followers and tweets transferred over automatically. And since Tourism Australia's username is now australia, which was previously your username, then that means your account had to be moved to a new username which in this case turns out to be Australia1_. Unfortunately I don't think there's much you can do about it at this point.

I'm assuming the account was transferred over to Tourism Australia since the account had not tweeted in over a year https://twitter.com/Australia1_. I'm not sure what Twitter's "official" policy is when it comes to handing over usernames, but I've been successful requesting access to inactive accounts in the past. Twitter frowns upon "username squatting" so it's not surprising they turned the account over to someone who would actually use it.

Simply using the same domain name with a different extension won't make a difference since they are two completely different sites, despite the .com being a link farm, spam site, poor quality, etc. That being said, most people prefer .com, .net or .org over extensions such as .info, .biz, .ws, etc. simply because they are more popular and have been around longer. The extension itself won't affect your SEO one way or another, but I could see some issues with users seeing the site with the .info extension in the search rankings and not clicking on it simply because they prefer .com, .net or .org.

Where is it being blocked? In SEOmoz or OpenSiteExplorer? I just checked OSE for that domain and it appears there just aren't any links pointing to it yet - http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.weddingcarsofhampshire.co.uk

I'm intrigued by what could be the cause of the drop in organic traffic to the main site, so I tried searching for some of your reviews, and 99% of the time, the forum thread ranked much higher than the review on the editorial site as you mentioned. Did this only start being the case after January 6th, 2013?

Also, I found this on your forum - http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/steam-vent/85061-audioholics-content-stolen-fake-website-mtxaudioseries-com.html. What are the latest developments?

Have you seen a change in organic traffic to the forums since the software upgrade? Perhaps the decrease in organic traffic to the main site is a result of the forums seeing an increase in rankings/traffic by overtaking the main site in the search results due to upgrading the software. Just a guess though since we don't have access to any of the analytics data.

Can you share the URL(s)? If the drop occurred on the same day of the forum software upgrade, then that is more than likely to be the primary cause, but there's really no way to determine that without seeing the site.

There's also the possibility that the Google Analytics or other tracking codes were not installed on every single page of the new templates, which means your traffic may not have actually dropped but rather you are not capturing all of the data.

When I try to go to the secure version https://www.moneyglare.com/, I am served the following warning message -

www.moneyglare.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
The certificate is only valid for Parallels Panel

(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

I am not exactly sure what Parallels Panel is but if it's your webhost, you might want to try contacting them to see if they can fix this for you by 301 redirecting the https version of the site to the http version if you are not using SSL.

Another option is to set the canonical tags to the http versions so the https pages don't get indexed in the search engines. Here's a quick way to automatically do this with PHP -

$currenturl= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

//Check if it is using the secure https port which is 443
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] == "443") {

//connected to secure port, formulate the http canonical version
$canonicalversion="http://".$currenturl;

//echo the canonical version to the HTML as link rel canonical tag
echo '';
}

?>

Do you want to capture the parameter value or do you want to just remove it immediately? If you want to remove it without worrying about capturing the value in Google Analytics, then this code may work -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !="" #if there is a query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^p=.* #wordpress users: allow post tempalinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin.* #wordpress users: don't break admin
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L] #remove query string

I got this code from http://briancray.com/posts/htaccess-hack-remove-url-query-strings/

Here are some great articles offering several different solutions to your problem -

http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/conquering-pagination-guide.html

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience

As long as it's a 301 redirect and /default.aspx is the sole URL as you said it was, then there shouldn't be a problem SEO-wise.

I can't access your SEOmoz report. What does the error message say? And are there any other URLs provided in the error message?

I was actually going to suggest putting the artist's info into a graphic before I finished reading your post. If that is going to be too much of an undertaking, then yes, an iframe would be a reasonable solution. Instead of using robots.txt, I'd suggest putting the noindex tag into the head of the iframed content.

This situation is quite common. If you are able to move the corporate information to its own page that you can link to from each product page, then that's what I would suggest doing.

Yup, use the canonical tag to tell the search engines which URL should be designated as the "correct" page to index. Here is some more information from Google - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

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