HuskyPup - 3:51 pm on May 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

Apparently you really don't have any problems.

One problem is one problem too many and especially when it's not directly my site and is affecting my client's business:-(

NOTE: I have found a possible error in the SERPs and this is an old one here, a 301 permanent redirect.

The site is now back on the first page for keywordphrase + county however what I have also noticed is that a domain name that is 301'd to the target site is showing the domain name + various extensions and not the target site domain name.

This is showing a cache date of 23rd May 2008 therefore I am going to leave the site for a few days and see how things develop.

Did you use the noodp tag?

No, nothing to do with that. I couldn't understand why my companyname.com did not appear in the results until I read the Google snippet in the results and I wondered from where they had got it.

It was purely from memory that I realised this snippet was from Dmoz some what, 10 years ago, therefore I checked the listing and someone had changed it from our .com to our .biz!

The .biz test pages were removed and redirected immediately,

I duly filled out the form to correct the listing and updated the snippet and much to my surprise it was done within a couple of weeks, thanks Dmoz.

That combined with me weeding out some other completely forgotten old test pages which were obviously rasing a duplication flag and the job was done, back to normal and it didn't climb back, it launched straight back to where it had been before.

The lesson from this is that I remove all test pages as soon as proven!