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Hi Marie

Thanks for your feedback - it was something that I did think may be related to Panda and was one of the reasons I opened this question.

The homepage was straight copy of the old homepage - the other website design company launched both sites - both where indexed - when I took it back over, I did a 301 right away - I also did address change in webmaster tools and verified the new website that all went through and believe shortly after the old website was then removed from the index.

I hope with next refresh it comes back a bit, strange alot of keywords im working on for homepage are showing in google places but not on the organic serps, but some are.

I just felt their is something not quite right with regards to homepage - wasnt sure if it was because it was duplicate content before I put the 301 in place

just seems homepage not ranking as good as I think it should - when we did his old website he was ranking top 5 in organic serps (not google places) for most of the keywords

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Mortgage+Advisors+West+Lothian&oq=Mortgage+Advisors+West+Lothian&gs_l=serp.3..0j0i22l2.21737.21737.0.21917.1.1.0.0.0.0.107.107.0j1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.nN9LSNR9iJs

an example without the in - its only showing in google places, other keywords aswell just showing in google places

if you search financial wise aswell few pages showing but not homepage

the homepage is the only place we have been building links to so far

the links - articles we have been developing have anchors related to business like

mortgage advisors west lothian etc, some of the searches showing up in google places but not in organic searches

a full site 301 has been done, it was the first thing i went ahead and done

but keywords im pusing which are for homepage, are not showing or showing a random page

Hi

Looking for a bit advice our client - www.financial-wise.co.uk

We worked with this client on his old website www.mortgage-wise.co.uk we had him ranking for most local searches. The client then re-branded the full company and got another company in to do this, they did him new website www.financial-wise.co.uk, the company then launched the new domain with the old one still showing, some of the content was the same, including homepage.

Anyway the issue im having now is, for certain searches im struggling to get them ranking again and for searches such as financial wise, its inner pages showing instead of the homepage?

I have che checked and homepage is indexed, i have also re-written all the text on the homepage but still having some issue, its almost like the homepage has been penalised

any help would be great?

Hi

just found I have same issues on my own website. However bit confused how I would change this. When the website was developed they where php pages, we did a rewrite so these pages went to .html pages instead, see file below. However now with my website www.rfksolutions.co.uk and www.rfksolutions.co.uk/index.html seem to be duplicate?

see my current htaccess file

any ideas?

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^about-us.html$ about-us.php [L]
RewriteRule ^portfolio.html$ portfolio.php [L]
RewriteRule ^partners.html$ partners.php [L]
RewriteRule ^logo-design-portfolio.html$ logo-design-portfolio.php [L]
RewriteRule ^graphic-design-portfolio.html$ graphic-design-portfolio.php [L]
RewriteRule ^graphic-design-portfolio2.html$ graphic-design-portfolio2.php [L]
RewriteRule ^testimonials.html$ testimonials.php [L]
RewriteRule ^portfolio/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+).html$ portfolio_details.php?&title=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rfksolutions.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.rfksolutions.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ "http://www.rfksolutions.co.uk" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^falkirkwebdesign.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.falkirkwebdesign.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.rfksolutions.co.uk/$1" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^falkirkwebdesigners.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.falkirkwebdesigners.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.rfksolutions.co.uk/$1" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webdesignfalkirk.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.webdesignfalkirk.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.rfksolutions.co.uk/$1" [R=301,L]

Hi

thanks for that, it was a 301 i was thinking about, that is what I would normally have done, if for instance an old page had some link juice I would 301 it to another page, but I hadnt done one for this reason

I have just setup a 301 now for the domain name

thanks for your help, sorry just to confirm

if I wanted google to keep the www.mydomain.com instead of www.mydomain.com/index.html as the main homepage I would put the link rel= onto the index/html and put the www.mydomain.com in there?

Hi

Just found through my SEO dashboard, Google has two versions of the same homepage, the root page, plus the index.html page, causing duplicate content from both the pages.

what is the best option to ensure google only have 1 version of the homepage listed?

Hi Gareth

Thanks for that, I did think that is all it would take, but just wasnt sure if their was anything else I could have done to help remove all these pages from the index. The website has under-gone quite a big change in last few weeks with many of its pages being removed, so hopefully google will soon update its index.

Hi

One of my own websites, having a slight issue, Google have indexed over 500+ pages and files from a template directory from my eCommerce website.

In google webmaster tools, getting over 580 crawl errors mostly these ones below

I went into my robots text file and added

Disallow: /skins*
Disallow: /skin1*

Will this block Google from searching them again? and how do I go about getting the 500 pages that are already indexed taken out?

Any help would be great

| http://www.rfkprintsolutions.co.uk/skin1/modules/Subscriptions/subscription_priceincart.tpl | 403 error | Jan 15, 2012 |
| http://www.rfkprintsolutions.co.uk/skin1/modules/Subscriptions/subscription_info_inlist.tpl | 403 error | Jan 15, 2012 |
| http://www.rfkprintsolutions.co.uk/skin1/modules/Subscriptions/subscriptions_admin.tpl | 403 error |

Jan 15, 2012

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I definitely agree more so than any previous years, high quality unique content both on your own website, and on the web pages you are being linked from is crucial.

I am planning to spend much more time writing my own unique content for my blogs, and feeding this out to the likes of Facebook & Twitter. As I believe these two social media platforms are already  being used heavily to influence the SERPS.

So far in 2011 we have seen some minor and some quite major updates to the Google Algorithm.

So what does this mean for future link building in 2011, what type of links do people think are going to continue to work?

Are directory and  article submissions totally dead?

I personally believe that this year a big area of link building that is going to be crucial is Guest Blog Post, finding high quality relevant websites and getting a guest post done on them. This is personally what I am really going to target this year.