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Thanks for your response Tom.

Essentially there is only one query string variation that is live and linked to for the 10 pounds url.

/10-pounds-products/     =>     /10-pounds-productss/?display=cost&value=10

The text content is identical on both URLs however the query results are obviously different.

I don't think there is a way to remove the canonical tag aside from removing the plugin so I may have to go with changing it to the query string.

Ideally I would like for users to see the non-query version in the SERPs and the click through to the the query version of the page. Not sure that's possible now though I will speak to the developer to see if this issue is avoidable.

Thanks again

Rosh

Hi,

I have recently been getting my comparison website redesigned and developed onto wordpress and the site is now 90% complete. Part of the redesign has meant that there are now dynamic urls in the format:

http://www.mywebsite.com/10-pounds-productss/?display=cost&value=10

I have other pages similar to this but with different content for the different price ranges and these are linked to from the menus:

http://www.mywebsite.com/20-pounds-products/?display=cost&value=20

Now my questions are:

1. I am using Joost's All-in-one SEO plugin and this adds a canonical tag to the page that is pointing to http://www.mywebsite.com/10-pounds-products/ which is the permalink. Is this OK as it is or should i change this to http://www.mywebsite.com/10-pounds-products/?display=cost&value=10

2. Which URL will get indexed, what gets shown as the display URL in the SERPs and what page will users land on? I'm a bit confused so apologies if these seem like silly questions.

Thanks

Yes, I will be keeping things like content, page titles, h1 the same as well as trying to keep the .html extension. The site doesn't have a folder structure currently but this may change for certain areas that need categories e. http://www.example.com/news/todays-news.html so this could be one area that I need to 301.

Thanks EGOL, that's the kind of positive thinking I need. I had considered the onsite-SEO improvements but have most definitely been focusing more on what bad things might happen after when there could be good things to arise.

Hi,

I am looking to get a site of mine a much needed redesign and was wondering what other peoples experiences have been with rankings in Google after the new site has gone live. It will be converted from html/css design to a PHP based CMS with added functionality such as filtering, sorting etc.

I'm aware of some of the preventative measures that can be done to prevent loss of rankings (e.g. 301 redirects) but are there any others and in your experiences have they been successful preventing the site dropping out of favor or losing rankings?

Kind regards

Rosh