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Hi,Gavin, Why you're still using 301 redirect to redirect the authority from the old domain to the new domain, you should start building links for the new domain and possibility reach out to those people that linked to the old domain to link to your new domain so that your new site can stand on its own.  If you're only relying on the authority from the old domain and not build any new back links, I'm not sure if it can ever stand on it's own. Keep working hard on building links my 2 cents. Thank you!

Hi, I have to agree with Devanur-Rafi.  If both of the sites are serving the exact content, although Google have the power to do whatever they want, they'll most likely take the rel=canonical into consideration and display the page the tag is pointing to over the second site. So, yes it is a dream to display both site with the same content in the search result and by using the canonical tag, Google won't penalize both sites and display the preferred site. That's my 2 cents. Thank you!

Google trys to connect every term and combination of terms within a query to a search query entity. It relates the terms and the entities with a probabilistic model in order to define how closely connected they are. Regarding now the webpage of centerofpolitics it is not in the first 200 results of Google.com (US). Probably, due to the 10 occurences of the word larry in the html of the webpage (some on title, some in body, some in links) Google has a loose connection with the word "Larry" of the "Larry Page" search query. Since, "Larry Page" as an entity is an authority for Google, the webpage of centerofpolitics should be a result ranked low in a search query that matches exactly the name of the entity such as "Larry Page" or "Page Larry".

Hi Tom Sorry to be a pain but please can you confirm re my latest question/comment reply to yours, i.e. does your advice still stand if client on a windows server (since i dont think have .htaccess files or do/can they?) And if not then is there a similar course of action that can be taken ? Cheers Dan

This is very helpful, thank you!

Hi, About your keyword pages, they don't have to sit on a main page of your website. For example you could include a link with something like "find out more information on XXX" then the link redirects them to the keyword page. This way you get to keep all the SEO benefits, but remove them from immediate viewing on your website. Hope this helps a little I too am trying to discover more about links so thanks for your post. Jason

is there any idea ?

Just wanted to update this, it took a month but since I decided to completely remove canonical tags and try and handle duplicate content with url rewrites and 301 redirects and I now have 114 out of 149 indexed from my sitemap which is much better. it ended up to dropping to 5 out of 149 at one point.

If you do not have any tags or categories, you should exclude them from Yoast's XML sitemap. To do this; Go to SEO -> XML Sitemaps Check off Tags and Categories to exclude them from the sitemap. If this doesn't fix it, let us know - I can try to help further. -Dan

It could be this easy http://kb.sucuri.net/cloudproxy/Configuration/how-to-enable-SSL

I'm not sure. It could be that on the other domain the brand name or some similarity existed, and that is what Google is using to tie them together. Along with using the 410, make sure to place the proper robots data on the page, meaning use "no-archive" so the search engines always keep display the most recent result. NOINDEX tag tells Google not to index a specific page NOFOLLOW tag tells Google not to follow the links on a specific page NOARCHIVE tag tells Google not to store a cached copy of your page NOSNIPPET tag tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will also not show a cached link in the search results

technically a no follow tells Google you don't want to be associated with a link or pass on and link juice through that link, I don't think it works the same for an image and it may still result in it being indexed, if you want to be safe I would suggest that you block it in robots (the Google image bot)

It will show up as N/A in the toolbar until the next time Google updates what it displays to the user in the toolbar. This can be several months behind what the true PageRank is, and can be inaccurate. Google has admitted that the PR displayed on the toolbar is not always accurate, and has been that way for years.

This type of structure also fits in nicely with your analytics package. You can look at all the visits to /toyota/ to see how popular that is compared with all the visits to /ford/, for example.

I agree, never redirect when you can fix the link.

i am happy about this community as it helps me a lot thank you guys for your input i really appreciate it. Im gonna ask 1 more question to the community to help me enlighten. thanks

If your website is just syndicated content, it will hurt your seo.  But if you are doing your own activities and add in articles from other places around the web (which creates a beneficial user experience), it can help you get more readers and links. I would not expect that the aggregated content would rank well on your website as it is just a duplicate from another site that deserves rankings for related keyphrases.

Can you show the beginning of the article after 30 days is up? Similar to what New Scientist do: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229720.600-memory-implants-chips-to-fix-broken-brains.html

Hi, ideally only one version of the URL should throw an HTTP header status code 200 and rest all can be redirected to the preferred version via 301. Suppose, http://www.abc.com is your preferred version (the www version), all others like, http://abc.com, http://abc.com/index.html, http://www.abc.com/index.php etc., can be redirected to the www version via 301. It is highly recommended to maintain this consistency through out your website. You can use a tool like the following to check if you have multiple versions of your homepage return status 200. http://www.ragepank.com/redirect-check/ Hope it helps. Good Luck. Best regards, Devanur Rafi

Brilliant, Tom! Going to go ahead and do the 301. Thanks so much.