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You mean 301, right?

I would say a category page as redirecting to a different product, no matter how similar, could make for a poor user experience.

Is there any correlation with ranking drop for the exact match keyword (or any other keywords for that matter)?  I know that exact match domains may not get the boost they used to but I certainly don't recall seeing any penalties.

A test ran about a year ago states that Google has no issue with it....

http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157

when was your site moved over to the new site?  You say that didn't go well and I have to wonder if you left out a lot of redirecting there.  If it hasnt been to long and Google still has the old site indexed (or even if not if you had good links) I would make sure you redirect every page of your old website to the relevant page of your new website.

I would check Google Trends for a possible drop in search volume for your targeted terms.  I am not sure how long you have had this site up and running but you may just have hit a seasonality drop (we see this with hotels) and you may simply need to wait it out.  You may consider deepening your 'bucket' of phrases if there are relevant terms for which you are not targeting that may still be receiving some decent search volume.

Because you have not dropped in ranking for the specific term I am confident in saying this has nothing to do with your exact match domain - any penalty would have been to your rankings which would have effected traffic but Google can not cut out the middle man - they can't keep you where you are in the rankings but still control your traffic amount.

Hmmmm - that makes me wonder - have you narrowed the traffic loss down to search engines?  Were you perhaps running some other type of marketing that may have been driving direct or referral traffic that you have stopped?

You are totally correct, Adam  I simply use DA as a guide line for whether or not the website, as a whole, is 'OK' - not as a definitive rule.  You certainly can get a spammy link from a high DA website but I haven't found that to happen very often at all.  I suppose I use it in the way that I used to use toolbar PR - not as a rule, but a guide line.  Thank you for your insight.  Again, you are totally correct, I should not have been so vague.

Cheers, and thumbs up

I am not huge on directories but here are some you should go for - I am sure there are more:

http://www.thebluebook.com/
http://www.homeadvisor.com/
http://www.nahb.org/
http://www.epa.gov/radon/rrnc/directory.html
http://www.builderdirectory.com/

As always EGOL's response consists of words to live by - his white hat, good content approach wont only get you where you want to be, it will keep you there no matter what updates Google launches (unless they just go insane).

The only thing I would add is to really look at your website's usability compared to theirs.  How is your page load speed compared to theirs?  Is their website far easier to navigate?  Do you meet ada compliance?  If not, do they?

These things seem to be more and more important.

That would scare me.  I would stop using that program and see if you can get the listings deleted.  If not I would disavow them through Google.  I wouldn't take any chances with something like this.

I checked Rugs USA.  They are using Canonical Tags to point to a general page for like products.  They are also using the Schema Product tags that Irving suggested.  I do not believe they are taking a hit - they took the time to set it all up.

I would say--and many may disagree with me--that if you are building a directory to honestly help users than that is great.  However, to do so on a subdomain of your company's website is very likely going to seem fishy.  I wouldn't do that, personally.

Google crawls and indexes secure pages - for instance, your https website has 128 pages indexed in Google.  I agree with Mr. Weiss that your site needs to be fixed however - especially the temporary redirect from http to https.  Was your entire website only recently moved to https and then you lost ranking or has it always been https?  I feel you probably have some other issues going on besides the secure socket layer.  For instance, almost every link in your footer nav has 'dog tags' in it.  Kind of spammy to me....

I am not disagreeing with EGOL - I know when someone has more experience than me

However... I can't help but remember when links from Press Releases, according to Matt Cutts, were useless... then it was proven that they certainly did count.  Or when exact match domains weren't supposed to help... but they still did...

Sometimes I think that Mr. Cutts will say these things knowing that many webmasters will believe him and stop doing what Google wants them to stop doing.  Then later they may make some algorithmic changes...

This is clearly speculation on my part.  It just seems this way sometimes.

Both of those pages have canonical tags that point to https://lurento.com/city/ which 404s out.... I would start there.

Missed that post as well!  I must be getting slow, LOL

Ha!

The vast majority of my clients are hotels.  Because of this I deal with rebranding all of the time (a property switching brands, a branded property dropping the brand to become independent etc...)  If you feel comfortable leaving your old and new domains I would be happy to take a look for you.  As Ikkie said, it could be any number of things.

No problem at all