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Thanks Tampa SEO, good advice.

Interestingly, the URL listed in SEOmoz is as follows:

www.morethansport.co.uk/brand/adidas?sortDirection=ascending&sortField=Price&category=sport and leisure

But when I look at the link in the referring page it is as follows:

/brand/adidas?sortDirection=ascending&sortField=Price&category=sport%20and%20leisure

notice the "%" symbol instead of the spaces.

The actual URL is the one listed in SEOmoz but even if I copy and paste the % version, the browser removed the '%' and the page loads fine.

I still can't get the site to throw-up a 400.

Hi, I have a new client set-up in SEOmoz and the crawl completed this morning... I am picking up 20 x '400' errors, but the pages listed in the crawl report load fine... any ideas?

example -

http://www.morethansport.co.uk/products?sortDirection=descending&sortField=Title&category=women-sports clothing

If a user searches using Google.com but is based in the UK, is it classed as a Google UK search or a Google US search in terms of monthly search volumes?

Most of my clients are targeting UK consumers and often rank well on Google UK but outside the top fifty for Google US. I have mentioned that that is fine unless a client happens to use google.com. Am I talking rubbish?

Problem solved, well, more like diagnosed!

Although the pages were A grade optimised, filters on the page (i.e. sort by high price, low price, new products) were seen as duplicate pages as the CMS would take the static page and add some dynamic content for the filter. Rel Canonical has sorted it, but we shall see next time Google updates.

Yea I suspect it was an initial spike.

I monitor rankings within SEOmoz pro, so my Google login isn't impacting.

Yes they were new pages for an eCommerce site, some had products, others were just landing pages for longtail searches.

They managed to get into the top ten with no backlinks at all, which surprised me. They have been in that position for a couple of months.

Yep as mentioned, I had some pages hit the top ten pretty quickly after ensuring they were A-grade for pretty uncompetitive keywords however, today, all bar 2 have just vanished from the top 50!

All were ranking in Google.co.uk and I know we were predicting the Panda update to hit soon but WOW!

My client is understandably a little upset, what on earch do I tell him and what should I do about it?

Cheers!

jT