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Thank you, and this rel canonical url is just a re-divert to the home page. web designers have messed up here. thank you for clarification on my thoughts

I want to say I agree with Tom I focused strictly on your CMS and as Tom said essentially you have been hurt by your lack of relevant root domains pointing to your site. Unfortunately after penalty given with an excellent cleanup Google is a little more wary of everything you do. So when you try to earn these new links which will need to do to compete for specialist paints an extremely competitive keyword. Be extremely careful that you do not cross any boundaries. Take a look at the information below as well I did quite a few scans on your site and hopefully that will be of some help to you. Respectfully, Thomas

You can't stop the link from their site working.... Definitely contact the Webmaster site first and if that doesn't work you can set up a htaccess redirect for any traffic coming specifically from that site... Send them to a page saying "sorry" and make the most of the traffic and try and sell them something else Old article here but it may help: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10/3086.htm

Yes the site would be if i gave the correct url its www.specialistpaintsonline.co.uk even over a year not much has changed in terms of the serps, its quite upsetting as were running at a loss since then.

Hi! This post mentions that Diego Gopen is the CEO at uQR.me. If you are Diego, can you please be sure to disclose that you have a relationship to the company you've been recommending in questions that have been dormant for 1-2 years? Thanks so much for understanding!

What about submitting infographics to sites that require a fee?  For example I ran across this site that had a $35 fee to "review" the info graphic.  Does paying for the "review" violate Google's terms for "paid links"? http://vizualarchive.com/submit-infographic/

Hello, sure i kind of understand whats happening etc, but to be fair i found Enter website fairly small over on the left of the screen, may be I am looking too deep into it. http://www.hullfc.com/smallsplash.aspx?a=1763 cheers D

You're smart to be looking to redesign your site to enhance search results. If your site is holding you back, you’ll likely need a site redesign before you can achieve good SEO results. Search Engine Optimization should start at the very beginning of a website. Trying to optimize a poorly designed site is a time consuming, inefficient way to go about internet marketing, and it can often yield very poor results. I agree about adding an "About" section to establish the company. Maybe you could add social share buttons to your blog postings and latest news sections to gain more engagement. If you want to complete a site review on your own try using SEOzio. Its a free tool that provides a fast and easy way for people to see how their website performs from an SEO perspective. You can look at individual parts of the SEO puzzle like link analysis, branding, crawl-ability of the site and site code, and how each factor contributes to you website's overall score. Good luck!

Thank you, I understand what you are saying, currently the site will be undergoing a revamp etc and I juust wanted to tidy it up somewhat to may engage the customer more towards our products rather than a big lump of text. Definateley going to consider a shorter more keyword rich paragraph thanks for your help