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One of our web pages seems to have completely dropped out of Google after featuring on page 1 for a number of years.  It can't be a site wide issue as all other web pages are performing as normal.  The page is http://www.contractormoney.com/income-protection/ and the key phrase it was performing well for was 'contractor income protection'.  Any ideas??

The 404s start with the correct url for the site but are then suffixed after the forward slash with urls such as;

fs/201410/a_Royal_Mail_Item_Is_Currently_Being_Processed_For_Delivery_.html

/fs/201410/a_When_will_John_lewis_restock_the_Dr_Dre_beats_solo_hd_.html

fs/201410/a_Food_stalls_at_train_stations_in_London_.html

There are 10,000+ of these in my WMT account.  I have never seen this before - any ideas?

I am currently working on a small site with approx 50 web pages.  In the crawl error section in WMT Google has highlighted over 10,000 page not found errors for pages that have nothing to do with my site.  Anyone come across this before?

Hi All

I have currently got a Manual Action on my Webmaster Tools account due to some unnatural links and I am in the process of seeding out the poor links with a view to having them removed or disavowed.

Other than looking at each link individually to see if it looks relevant or spammy. Any ideas on how I can gauge which links are bad and which aren't??

For years now whenever we recreate a site we always set up both an xml sitemap and an html sitemap page.

Stupid question maybe - but what is the value to having an html sitemap on site?

Quick question for you all - Is there an issue with me having an H1 tag physically below an H2 tag on a web page??

Thanks - I see what you are saying but I can't see them removing these links.  Would you recommend I use the disavow tool even though Google are saying they are discounting these links???????????

Great thanks.  Can't be clearer than that!

Are you sure on this as Google has stated in the manual action "Some links may be outside of the webmaster’s control, so for this incident we are taking targeted action on the unnatural links instead of on the site’s ranking as a whole".

Doesn't this mean that they have 'disavowed' them already??

I am trying to improve the internal linking structure on my site and ensure that the most important pages have the most internal links pointing to them (which I believe is the best strategy from Google's perspective!).  I have a number of internal links in the page footer going to pages such as  'Terms and Conditions', 'Testimonials', 'About Us' etc.  These pages, therefore, have a very large number of links going to them compared with the most important pages on my site.

Should I add 'nofollow' to these links?