Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Did you get the incapsula error message when you tried to click Post Response in Q&A, or when doing something else?

Hi Cole, Unfortunately there is a solution for this for international duplication but not national. If we were talking about international locations, the solution is the hreflang tag. I'll link to it here just in case it's of use in the future: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Nationally, canonicalisation will remove the non-canonical versions from the index and of course from rankings, as Chris has said. I've looked at medical queries in the past, and Google is very adept at taking IP into account when returning results, the fact that it thinks my IP is located an hour's drive south of here notwithstanding I would say that re-written content is your best bet if you can't use one page listing multiple locations (highly unlikely) and truly need separate sites for all 13. There can be a little cross-over / duplication without causing too much worry, but I would be concerned that Google is not good enough at a national level to differentiate between duplicates in the same way it can do this for internationalisation.

Hi there, In order to reduce the risk of passing the penalty but to ensure customers and repeat visitors get from site A to site B, you can try a 302 redirect, a meta refresh or a JavaScript redirect. Google traditionally does not pass authority or anything else through these types of redirects; however, there have been discussions lately in the SEO community about these types of redirects possibly carrying penalties over to the new domain as well. However, I'd still say they're safer than a 301 if you ONLY want to take traffic with you, but essentially want to start afresh. Cheers, Jane

I tried http://www.premiumproxylist.com/ and get daily email to my email in-box. Great experiences!

Jane/Martin, Thanks for the responses. I just wanted to verify what I was thinking before making a move. I agree with both of your points and I'm going to try and persuade the coders to make this an actual pop-up from a single static page. Thanks again!

Consider creating a page on your site for both terms. Weddings are a big deal for people and ultimately, they are going to book a venue that they love and relate to. If you have a great venue, you shouldn't be afraid to list a few other venues (perhaps not your primary competitors) that are good alternatives. Perhaps you could even make a referral arrangement with them and earn some income from people who book their venues from your page. Your home page could target the singular, Wedding Venue term - and of course highlight your venue. An additional page would be created to highlight the plural, Venues for Weddings, and the content would focus on the Top Venues in your city. It's a great chance for you to highlight what is special about your venue and deliver value to the searchers of either term.

So glad to be of help, Eduardo.

I know this thread is very old, but still very relevant to me today. My OSE report is showing sites that do not have any link pointing back to my site. I checked both the page and the source code and cannot find any evidence of a link. Some of these are low quality sites, and I don't want Google to punish me for being linked from them. Should I be worried of a penalty if OSE is still indexing them? Appreciate any response.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with the answers already given.  I ignore these links and do not disavow them.  Every site has them. The point of the disavow file is to tell Google not to count links that you have personally made for SEO purposes.  You didn't make these links and I don't believe that Google wants you to disavow them.  There's no harm in doing so but personally I ignore them.

Thanks Chris, that article was very helpful! Cleared a lot of things up.

Tags are basically lists of posts with a common theme - some sites automatically create tags, but commonly bloggers would add these into the CMS. Ideally, tags are kind of an extension of "categories" and often are similar to these in the way they are presented, but while posts appear on one or two categories, tagged posts can appear on many tag pages. As such tag pages could result in a lot of duplicate content on a blog, and for many years now I and others have been advocating noindexing tag pages (good SEO plugins would do this for you) and to no follow links to tags - which sounds like the type of implementation you have. Unless you are 100% sure that your tagged pages dont create too much duplicate content, I would leave them nofollowed, as I have seen them do more harm than good.

Hi Jane, Many thanks for that, good news indeed.

Disallow in robots would work - especially if the JS is actually rendering a pop up PAGE not a snippet existing on the page. If possible, I would prefer the use of Rel Canonical on those pop up pages - Google is funny sometimes and indexes URLs if you dissallow them in robots.

Hi Rishi! Thank you. Great solution.

Hi Kerry, This really depends, in most cases people only link the specific elements instead of the whole DIV box. For example what we did at TNW is: http://take.ms/tibb9 making the summary not clickable while the other elements in a featured posts are. I think that will make it more clear for users what they can click on instead of clicking by accident on something and then being redirected. The best answer would be to test this to see how users react to this. So set up your A/B testing tool ;-).

If you use the sll certificate, I would add a canonical url to the site and just direct everything to the ssl site, then you will be ahead of the game when google starts promoting ssl results.

The thing is that I am checking indexed pages on a regular basis and usually the fluctuations are not big, only changes few pages. But never such manny pages. The traffic from organic did drop, but just slightly and rankings were never affected. But as you said, I will keep an eye on this.

Good luck!

Even though I don't get it yet, I'm so proud of getting answer from Rand Fishkin !! Thanks Rand and all of you guyz.

Are both pages being indexed? If so, you won't lose the http:// version because googlebots are treating them as two separate pages.