calling all duplicate content experts!

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Hi I have a pretty crazy graph relating to one of my sites... it here:

http://bighillboardandski.com/images/webmastertools.png

I had the site redeveloped and relaunched in mid June and that has whats caused all the problems.

Now Ive had all the www. redirected to the non www. site and thought that would solve the problem but it hasnt and all the urls are seo friendly and concanolized to the best of my knowledge (although I may be missing something here.) Any suggetions would be welcome - could it be the actual content or page structure on the site or something else? I'm desperate to get this sorted out as i'm sure its effecting my serp pretty badly.

Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author fandango123
    The site is in question is Ski Chalet and Apartment Holiday Accommodation in the Alps if anyone has the time to have a quick look at it,

    thanks again in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    Take a look at some of the posts by Alexa Smith about duplicate content
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  • Profile picture of the author Weedy92
    How long has it been since the site was redone/relaunched? After things have been changed like links for the pages you will notice a drop in the number of pages being indexed. Give Google a second to figure out what's going on and catch up and index those new pages. The redirection works for passing the link juice over, but it won't automatically tell Google to index those new pages/links overnight, you're still going to have to give it some time..

    Edit: About 126 results (0.19 seconds)
    Use: site:Ski Chalet and Apartment Holiday Accommodation in the Alps

    Your pages are indexed..
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    • Profile picture of the author fandango123
      Thanks Weedy, maybe some patience (never one of my strong points) is the order of the day... it was pretty recent and so just leaving the site for a month or two probably wouldnt be a bad idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    Just a few thoughts for you on this:

    1) You have a lot of page code. I had to scroll down to line 363 before I actually got to the content on your homepage when viewing the source. That could be a problem, that's too much code. I believe a read somewhere that Google pays a lot of attention to the first 250ish lines to see what kind of content is there. Can you cut any of that code out at the top?


    2) Your homepage has this:

    Code:
    <h1>
    	Ski Chalets FRance &amp; Apartments, Catered &amp; Self Catered Chalet Accommodation</h1>
    Maybe it's just me, but having all the white space between the opening H1 tag and the actual content of it seems like sloppy coding to me. I doubt it would affect anything, but that looks unprofessional to me.

    3) Meta keywords tag. First off, this isn't really used anymore, it's outdated. But you have the following on the homepage:

    Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="Ski holidays France, Catered Chalet france, Ski Chalet France, Self Catered Apartment, Chamonix Chalets offering Luxury Chalet a ski chalet in France with luxury Chamonix accommodation, catered luxury chalets chamonix for skiing, self catered skiing in Chamonix valley" />
    The one that jumps out at me is "Chamonix Chalets offering Luxury Chalet a ski chalet in France with luxury Chamonix accommodation" - that is one hell of a long ass tail to be chasing. Is it actually worth it?

    4) Speed. Your site loads very slow. It only scores 42% on the GTmetrix tool. Go the the following site and drop your domain in and read the report it gives you: GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization

    Google does care about loading times. If your site takes too long to load it won't rank as well.
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