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You will want to do the 301 redirect. That is the best way to address a domain name change. You would use a canonical tag if you were keeping both sites live, which isn't best practice. The canonical tag is not necessary when you use the 301 redirect. You will use the canonical tag to set the correct version of your URL, for example, if your set version is abcde.com and not www.abcde.com you will add a canonical tag to the page for abcde.com.

Hi Alick300 Thanks for the response  - it was concise and backed by an example. I couldn't have asked for more, thank you.

If you have a website with over 10,000 pages that is partially e-commerce then you should not be afraid to pay for a proper solution. Free is great when you are starting out but there comes a time when you need to invest money (and it will be a small amount) in the proper tools to continue your site's growth.

I use it on daily basis, because it gives me quite a good image of what we might miss with manual checking. I hope it will do the trick for you too. BTW: good to know article for Screaming Frog: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide/ That article might speed up things for you and Screaming Frog (for future use )

You need to suscribe in Google Master Tools and send your site map to Google. You will get more autority with that.

Hi Dev. It looks to me like payment verification / card processing sites are being counted as referrals when people run a transaction on your site. You'll need to go into your domain referral exclusion list and add your selected payment partners to that list.   See: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795830  Cheers!

Same question... what is the solution?

Curious if you ever solved this issue with temporary redirects?  Our Magento site is doing the same thing, with enable cookies page , wish list page and compare product pages.

Hi Ryan Thanks for your input and I hear what you are saying but the advice is positive if somewhat ethereal for little businesses which I understand is not what MOZ caters for. For example my major competitors are now all big subscription/member based marketplaces like Etsy, notonthehighstreet, ebay & amazon and the like and I can never really hope to compete with them on the SEO playing field as I don't have the resources - namely their budget. Playing the backlinks, Page optimisation, Social media game is only going to take you so far and after that I think the decision is simply a case of join them or sit in the back row and eat crumbs. To use your phrase, there is no place left in the universe where my competitors don't already live. I have to say I love the positivity of your (But still gets plenty of visitors). comment - made me smile. Have written this post I have actually helped clarify the issue in my own head that SEO for small businesses is a treadmill that is now going too fast to stay on. I wont be jumping off just yet, as I am way too stubborn, but I will be considering who to ask for a piggyback in the not too distant future. Have a good one!

Ha, no worries. Somehow it happens all the time! Good luck in solving your SERP title issue!

Hi shr109, I've sent an email over so you have my address. Please let me know if it doesnt come through, we're recovering from a couple of email issues this end (infected web server in the same IP Subnet as our email server got us blacklisted), it might have ended up in spam! Thanks,

Try RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^5.10.105.45/~isea/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NewDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Or RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} /~isea/$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NewDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] ** (edit) Make sure your sever has Mod Rewrite Enabled*

Hi there, Alick is right about this - you want to make your brand and keywords prominent in your Title tags and Meta Descriptions. Generally speaking, as long as these change from page to page (i.e. "Brand"), you will be okay. We performed work for a client recently who was using default dynamic tags for their Meta data and were suffering penalties for it due to the overlapping duplicate issues. When we instituted the solution Alick mentions above, we cut those problems out of the equation very quickly. Rather than worry about the Meta data, it sounds like you should be looking at optimizing your site structure for crawling and determining your leading brands - just a suggestion. Hope it works out and feel free to get in touch if you have further questions, Rob

Hi Tyler, Is this still going on? My first reaction would be to say that Google will probably figure it out over time and the notifications will disappear/not reoccur. Have you seen new notifications of duplicate content since you made these changes? Are these pages still appearing in the index? If not I wouldn't be super concerned - WMT updates lag behind what's going on in the index by quite a bit. If they are, take a look at the cache date - it may be that Google needs to crawl these pages again to find the canonical tag. Since Google doesn't always "get" canonical tags, you may not see this error go away in WMT - as long as those pages are no longer ranking for anything, though, you should be OK. The redirects should stop registering as duplicate content sooner rather than later, though.

Hi, On the desktop version you have to put: href="http://m.example.com/page-1" > On your mobile page you put: Source: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/configurations/separate-urls - check also https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/common-mistakes/?hl=en rgds, Dirk

If both the www. and non-www. URLs were being indexed - creating duplicates for nearly every page on your website - then the significant drop in number of pages indexed makes sense.

I think that - adding the new URL while keeping the old ones in XML sitemap for a bit - is your best idea. You can manually add your new URL to index using GWT tools, as well, but I think it's best practice to wait for your site to be crawled again before removing old links from XML sitemap.

he said "in crawl error section" and I thought "fetch as google section" My fault

Glad to hear thats all fixed! Though i will say thats a very slow response time for any development / hosting company typically i would expect a maximum response time of 8 hours.. We try to keep it under 2 heh. But yes, glad thats working for you now

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html _Hey! Rankings in mobile search results will change April 21st. _