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Hi Anthony,

I think either is okay.

But personally for user experience I prefer your second method.

For people skimming your page they are more likely to be enticed by the event title rather than the date.

But I see your point about the duplicating the date, but I wouldn't worry about it too much, I think it will actually help the user experience, as all the information will be within their eye line without having to make them scroll up to see the date again.

I hope this helps with your decision.

You can't really tell if you have a penalty based on traffic alone, before you start jumping to the worst case scenario check your keywords.

If you have a penalty your keywords would have dropped dramatically. But if your keywords are still ranking retentively normal than you might want to explore other options for your traffic loss.

Also Penguin doesn't look for content that's Panda's job, Penguin is more looking for spammy links that aren't relative or natural.

I would do the redirect, essentially if you can access your site from www.example.com and example.com and both have the same content this will be classed as duplicate.

This won't do any harm to your current rankings and should actually have a positive effect

Sorry that was my mistake, I was only testing the Gallery Page and only quickly looked over it - sorry about that.

I fully agree with you that links are not the issue as i can't see enough 'spammy' links pointing to your site for Penguin to punish you. But just to completely rule out Penguin, have you done a full back link audit with Webmaster tools?

It does look like it is content related though, Panda was updated around the end of September but this is a roll out rather than an instant hit, it may have taken time for it to take effect

check out the Panguin Tool - This cross references your site traffic with ALL Google updates it could give you a better picture.

If your links are clean good quality and relevant there should be no reason why you would have a Penguin Penalty. Do you have any messages in WMT?

I would concentrate on building the site content though, from what i can see and what you've said it's quite thin and you will definitely see benefits if you build it up.