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Well, if you're in business and trying to make a profit it is actually a more important stat than traffic. I'd rather have 15% conversion on 2000 visitors than 2% on 15,000. Even though they are the same, you have much more room to grow profitably.

There isn't a distinction between upper and lower case on your pages but be sure that your URLs are all consistent because http://www.mywebsite.com/CheapHolidaystoEgypt is not the same url as http://www.mywebsite.com/cheapholidaystoegypt.

The section for buying your dvd training lists the price for everyone at $119 and the special price for pro members at - $119.

Then the text says that the special price will be shown when the item is added to the cart where the special price is - $119.

Am I missing something here?

We've been trying to get a dmoz link for 9 years.

Since these parts of the site aren't anything a spider would be seeing anyway, it really doesn't matter how you get people to the next page.

I typically tell spiders not to even go to folders for things like accounts and checkout.

Strange. I can't tell what you are doing as a redirect. Usually firebug in Firefox gives that information. I would have your tech person make sure that you have a 301 redirect to your main domain if you don't already.

You need to replace ##caturl## with whatever the actual url is for each page.

You mentioned seeing links from the non www domain. Where are you seeing these links?

I just wanted to say thank you all for the advice you've given on this board. When I first joined we had been stomped by Panda three times and our traffic was down about 40% from last year.

Since then, we've followed recommendations here and while we aren't quite back to where we were before, our traffic for the last three days from Google is higher than any time since May and trending higher. We are also up in Google rank for 70% of our tracked keywords and showing up for 15% that we weren't even on the radar for in August.

We still have a lot of work to do but know that we are on the right track. We can now do the same on a site that survived the initial hit but got slapped in July.

I just want to reiterate what others have said:

• Get rid of duplicate urls - 301 redirect all dups to a single page
• Flesh out or drop pages with low content value
• Find 404 pages that used to exist and instead of 404s, 301 redirect to current resources
• Fix speed issues

This forum was well worth the subscription.

We've seen a competitor that has used spammy practices for years that no matter what continues to sit at the top of the rankings.

As Ian said, it's maddening as can be but you can't fix Google so you just have to work on improving your own site. (Still working on taking this advice)