[Jon]

The only time we've seen a substantial drop related to rankings upon CDSEO installation is when someone changed from a custom url structure and didn't implement 301 redirects manually. CDSEO by default 301 redirects the default php, clean urls, and html catalog links.


In 8 years we've never had a report of a substantial drop related to anything else. The time frame does coincide somewhat with the Google Penguin update that happened at the end of April/May so the issue may be unrelated.

I am seeing 38,000+ of your pages index so indexing certainly isn't the problem.

If you send me FTP and X-Cart admin access via our support desk I will review your CDSEO setup to make sure it was done correctly.

Duplicate content is an issue with your short/long description setup, but alone shouldn't cause such a drop. If you wanted to deindex these you could turn of url replacement for categories in the CDSEO Admin section and then block home.php?cat=* via robots.txt