Top_Hat - 8:59 am on Aug 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

@tedster My mistake was using a relative canonical tag and missing the /
So google used the canonical to point at non existent pages (web master tools reported loads of 404 errors)

So a page: blue/widgets/index.html
would appear in web master tools as a 404 error blue/widgets/blue/widgets/index.html

Hope that makes sense.

Anyway, its been 2 months since fixing with no recovery, should I 301 all those missing pages or just wait, and does anyone know how long I will have to wait