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Hello, Thanks for the answer. if I merge all the similar pages to much fewer pages what will happen with the internal links?

Lol. Sherlock to the rescue!

Hi Dirk, Thank you very much for your answer!

Hey there, Thank you all for helping with this...

Hey Patrick, Thank you very much for your answer, it is very helpful.

Your solution is fine... and Google doesn't have problems with sites having different language version hosted in different domains (if it was so, Amazon should be invisible...). However, a better and complementary solution would be asking to your devs to create a rule so that, everytime the site receive a visit from an IP different from the Italian ones, an over box will be shown suggesting the visitors to visit the English version of the site and offering them the link to that version. This is a good thing also in terms of usability, because users will immediately know what to do and do not need to discover the English flag or feeling as if they were in the wrong web site.

Thank you, this was helpful!!

Well people, thank you for your responses! It is gonna be under my domain in a blog section in my website! Thanks!

Mat, There was a massive production of pages in the mid October 2011 and there was a drop in traffic around November - there was a panda update then. The problem is that for that the certain niche there is always a small drop for the site concerning Oct, Nov and Dec so it is not so clear to judge!

My gut reaction is similar to Stefan's  - a #1 to #5 drop may not be Penguin-related. If you saw a clear drop from 4/24-4/25, though, then that's a different matter. Penguin 1.0 did seem to hit all on one day across all countries and TLDs. If it was Penguin and you made fixes, keep in mind that they may not have any impact until the next data update, so it depends on when those fixes happened. Penguin 1.1 rolled out on 5/25. If it was Penguin, the data still isn't very conclusive - some people are saying it's mostly on-page keyword issue and others that it's link/anchor-based. I do think toning down the exact-match anchor text is a good bet and definitely take care of any blatant on-page keyword stuffing as well. If Google just turned down the dial on your EMD, so to speak (and maybe the US took a bigger hit just because of competitiveness), there's not a lot you can do, to be brutally honest. It's not a Capital-P penalty and changing your domain probably won't help - they've just adjusted the volume.

You can do a custom crawl at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test of 3000 URLs that might help you get started.