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I would be cautious about of putting a volume of 200+ keywords as this could be interpreted as a spam signal.  It might be wise to take search market share stats (G v B v Y) back to the client and put forward for and against arguments to the client.

Another option could be to see if your hosting company have a backup?

Hi,

Within WMT you should only really need to set on version of each subdomain, i.e

www.verdantly.com

blog.verdantly.com

as at present, the root domain is currently redirected to the www sub domain.

In terms of the dns issues, this link should help you diagnose the issues and get you on your way to solving the problems which your registrar or hosting company will be able to aid you with depending on where your DNS is held.

http://www.intodns.com/verdantly.com

If you need further assistance feel free to PM.

Cheers

Not at all, like I said, apologies for being presumptuous.  Im guessing you want information on SSL and DB on an IIS platform?

You are living in a post penguin world and the above mentioned methods now hold little to no value and could even damage your site.  Have a look through the SEOmoz blog for TONNES of great info on the sorts of practises you should be undertaking in this day and age.

Hi,

What content management system are you using? You will be able to pull a default one from a fresh download of the same CMS and then just upload the .htaccess to the html root.

PM me if you know your CMS and i can probably manage to send you the file over.

Unfortunately the support is locked down to account holders only.

Login here: https://account.freshstorebuilder.com/support/

and ask if they would be so kind as to send you a copy of the default htaccess file for the version you are using and then upload it to the root.

Hitting the A grade in terms of on page, in most cases, doesn't mean your site will make it to page one. So the next step is to delve deeper into your off page.

Couple of Suggestions:

• Maybe support the page more by linking through from your own blog (http://thesandersonweatherallblog.com/) with useful content.  Have your social team spread the message to your target audience and you should earn a few back links for this.
• Take link data pulls from OSE or Majestic of your competition who are ranking on page one for your target term and have a look at the types of links they use and see if you can "piggy back" of their methods.
• With the geographic nature of your target search term, you will always be up against places listings within the SERP, it may be worth optimising you places listing at your office in the centre of Leets around this search term.

You can use the ignore URL parameters in WMT to stop duplicate pages being indexed, however in the URLs you have provided your query string doesnt use variables! if the URLs were of the following format:

www.website.com/category/product-name.html?colour=red

you could use the WMT URL params tool to ignore the "colour" variable.

I would also recommend using the rel=canonical tag on the product-name.html pages:

So the canonical tag on the  www.website.com/category/product-name.html?=red URL would be

You will need to 301 redirect the none www version of your site to the www version.  By the sounds of things you are not using a CMS that will usually take care of this for you.

How you implement the redirect will be dependant on your webserver: linux apache or MS IIS.  Information for both can be found at the following URLs.  Keep me posted on how you get on.

Apache: http://jonsimpson.co.uk/log/2006/301_redirect_www_no_www

IIS: http://www.mcanerin.com/en/articles/301-redirect-iis.asp