Peter, In regard to the duplicate page issue, the root and index.php have only both been showing as indexed today. I redirected it in my google webmaster tools and I also 301 rdirected it in my .htaccess file a long time ago.

Easywebdev, thanks for the tips. I have made a few changes to my homepage in regards to minimizing spam techniques (bold, red, linking to home page, etc). However, there are sites still ranking well that are far worse than mine (bsale.com.au). I'm pretty sure that my recent serp problem revolves around the recent code I uploaded to my .htaccess file. That was a whole lot of code and a friend of mine advised me to NOT upload it, but I did anyway. That will teach me......

There are some codes that will need to stay, redirects etc, but I have removed all of the rect code I added. I only added this 2 or 3 weeks ago and now this!!!

Now that I have cleaned out my .htaccess file from the currupt code, should I do a 'Request Reconsideration' via google webmaster tools? or should I just sit back and wait?

regards

watto

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