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Certainly doesn't appear to be any issues there. It's difficult to determine the issue without taking a look closer but its not the robots.txt file and if your site is fully indexed then I can't offer more without seeing the site.

Would you be willing to share the URL?

I've seen people with similar issues before and it's been a small but fatal error in the robots.txt file itself. Can you please share it here and I'll advise further if needed.

Hi Kristin,

If the information on your purchase page and information page is identical then I would question why there is a need to keep them both as physical pages? My advice would be to 301 the new information pages and the old information pages directly to the new purchase pages - this will consolidate all your authority in once place and promote the page which is most beneficial to your company.

However, once this is done I would look to improve the visual aspect of these purchasing pages and see if you can improve the purchasing pages and make them more aesthetically pleasing so that you no longer have a "better landing page" situation like you do at the moment.

The above method require some time and work to be invested - if this is not viable at the moment then I would be inclined to suggest a canonical on the new information pages to the new purchasing pages (rel="canonical" src="new purchasing page").

All the information above is subject to the information being duplicated which I believe to be right. If you have any further questions I'll be happy to help.

Hey,

My personal preference would have been to stick with the original URLs /locations/uxbridge and use the rest of the website and localised SEO to promote these locations pages and associate them with a particular service.

However, if your set on changing the URLs then take Joseph's advice and spend some time getting this right. As he says make sure that your redirects do not chain together and any previous URLs point directly to the new URL.

If you make sure that any changes are covered by suitable redirects then the negative effects to your site will be minimal in terms of links lost and if your research is thorough then you should put yourself in a situation where more traffic is available.

With regards to submitting a new sitemap to WMT - I would recommend this. Doing so will let Google know that you have made changes and prompt them to process your new URLs.

In the past I have uploaded the new sitemap as a brand new sitemap alongside the existing one - this allows them to continue seeing the redirected URLs and realise what they are doing. I'd then advise removing the original sitemap from WMT after around a week to two weeks.

This process has worked well for me in the past.

I hope this helps.

Hey!

What's happening here is your website is loading a single offices.htm page and showing different data within that page depending upon the ID of the office selected. It's basically using the page as a template and filling in the blanks dependant upon the query.

The reason for it being there is simply because that is how your developer/agency has built your website. I would not recommend using this method in this instance as each office would be best suited to a unique page of their own as you've already mentioned.

For a better understanding of why it has been built in this manner I'd recommend talking to your developer.

Hope you found this useful.

I would recommend using Majestic SEO in this instance. So long as you are working on a website which you can verify as your own, you will be eligible to free link data from Majestic SEO. They can explain better than me:

http://blog.majesticseo.com/development/site-explorer-goes-free/

I hope you find this information useful.

Changing the structure of your website URLs can be a pretty large undertaking and if mishandled can easily destroy your website - as you seem to have understood.

It's difficult to provide advice about changing them without seeing an example URL. If you could provide a current URL and an example of what you are considering changing the URL to it would be of help.

However, there are definitely benefits to correcting any issues with URLs and it is one of those issue that is best addressed as soon as possible before your website becomes too large and the job becomes mammoth. I'm assuming that since you are using Wordpress your previous URLs automatically redirect to the new permalink?

I would recommend checking that this is correct and going forward ensue that any URLs that you change have a working 301 redirect from the old URL to the new URL. If you forget the redirects or get them wrong you will effectively duplicate content and run the possibility of causing more issues than you started with.

I'd be inclined to suggest individual blogs on individual domains. Doing this will allow each blog to cater to that countries specific market and better engage your audience. Let's face it, something that is of interest to some in New Zealand is not necessarily of interest to a UK-based market.

Let me know if you disagree and we can discuss further.