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Agreed, but for now I just want to cover the issue so we can move forward. Slight update to my code. This rewrites the homepage, but doesn't seem to be rewriting anything else. Any tips?

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^5.10.105.45/~isea/ [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Just tested. It doesn't work. Any help?

Hi there,

I'm not massively experienced with creating mod rewrite rules and I'm worried I've got this wrong as its slightly different to what I'm used to.

The web dev and content creators were working on http://5.10.105.45/~isea/ to create content.

I want to redirect all URL's to www.iseasurfwear.co.uk. This is what I've written

//Rewrite to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^5.10.105.45/~isea/[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.iseasurfwear.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]

Can anyone tell me if this is correct?

Thanks Andy, and everybody else. I think I have a clear action plan to move forward now. Get the product descriptions unique - and written to be more helpful and better for converting customers, adding more to the blog (bit thin at the moment with just news rather than useful info) and creating great resources to help customers (+ giving the site linkable assets)

Many thanks

Hi David, I think I have it set to weekly. I was guestimating it might take a month for it to start resolving itself. Gutted really as I was just about to invest time in more content and outreach. Ohwell.

Hi David,

I appreciate your input. I only made that assumption as the drop coincided with the update - literally the same day of the update after having massive gains for weeks (and months) prior. A lot of my rankings that dropped were for category pages and my homepage that are unique and actually quite useful for readers.

Do you think you could pinpoint the reason for the drop if it isn't due to duplicate content?

Thanks Andy, that's the app I'll be using.

I've seen a drop across the board for keywords, but not a complete failure. Yes this time of year is when I make the money. I've just started so put some of the fluctuations down to that too. Just need to keep plugging away at it I guess.

Hey Andy,

Thanks for your response. Yep, you hit the nail on the head. Duplicated from the manufacturer to save time as I wanted to launch quickly. Invested my time in creating new content rather than revisiting my product descriptions. I'm pleased I'll be able to recover.

I will look to get product reviews implemented ASAP.

Many thanks,
Sean

Hi there,

I think I was affected by the recent Panda update as I had a lot of duplicate content for my product descriptions (about 300). I'm going through and rewriting these to be both helpful and unique. I was ranking quite nicely for a big spread of keywords, but have been seeing my rankings drop day after day since the update.

Is it possible to see my rankings improve again after Google re-crawls my site, or would a penalty have been applied to my site preventing me to re-gain my positions for sometime. It's probably worth noting that I have a lot of unique and helpful content, it was just my product pages that had duplicate content, but I've seen my rankings across the board drop.

Any discussion and insight would be much appreciated.

Hi fellow Mozzers,

I'm currently in the process of planning/building a website for e-commerce and have stumbled on a bit of a hurdle with sub-directories.

I want to use a piece of software called SellerDeck to generate my e-commerce store and also my homepage (index.html). This element of the build is fine as the e-commerce store will sit in a sub-directory of .co.uk/store/. What I'm struggling with is the rest of the site architecture.

I want to use Wordpress to manage content for the rest of the site. I want to have sub-directories .co.uk/help/ and .co.uk/blog/, all managed from one Wordpress installation. Is this possible? If not, does having two separate installations of Wordpress create any speed issues?

Additional question for bonus points from me; lets say I wanted to do away with sub-directories for the /help/ and /blog/ elements (but keep the /store/), could I have a Wordpress installation that doesn't generate a homepage (index.php) so I can utilise the e-commerce software version instead. Essentially I'd be installing Wordpress at the root folder, but wouldn't have an index.php made by Wordpress.

Many thanks in advance

Hi. I know I'm a bit late to the question, but Google favours unique content. Google will issue warnings in GWT if you have just copied and pasted from the page content. You should be looking to write a compelling message that informs viewers of the content of the page and urges them to click through to read more.

I found this [relatively] recent article useful. I just so happen to be looking for more examples when I came here.

http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62553-33-examples-of-great-meta-descriptions-for-search