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A great tool for checking out duplicate content is www.copyscape.com. It will show you exactly what content is being duplicated. It sounds like you guys could get dinged for having dupe content, but you'll be able to check copyscape to see for yourself.

Hi This should help you get the Canonical issues sorted http://www.theintegrationengineer.com/magento-seo-canonical-links/

Thanks!  Will go with it.  Worth the try. Thank you!  Love this community thing.

Hi Courtney No you do not just want the home page to get the "link juice" you want the whole site to be visible to the search engines, or at least all the pages and posts that you want people to be able to read for free. Remember that every word you write on your blog has the chance to send more people to your site, so the more pages you can get Google to index and rank the more chance you have of getting traffic. I hope this helps Sean

Hi Chris I have sent you a PM asking for the URL of the site so I can check it for you Sean

If you do everything by the "books" then you should not see a huge swing, I just did this with a few sites, but I took some pre and post social precautions which I believe actually helped me in both these, but of course I cannot say that for sure, as overall in both very recent examples I moved to better servers, better code structure, nav structure and other items - So I would still caution and say it is always a possibility to loose some rankings, but it really depends on your end game and end goals.

already doing FB, just looking for more opportunities.

Hi Tom is right about the duplicate content issues. The other option is to make the 2 sites into 1, with the different language and cultural options available on each page, so someone can click a link and see the English or Indian version. This would make promotion easier as you would just need to focus on 1 site. I hope this helps Sean

By putting your contact details in your 2nd site as a jpeg - therefore not readable - you can overcome the problem.

Haven't heard of that with IE9, but from an SEO standpoint, 302s everywhere is much more risky than a few 301s mis-firing as 404s. I get why they're concerned, but this is the wrong solution. Is there a way to set up the redirects within the page headers and only returns 302s for IE9, for the short-term. That's not ideal, but it's at least a stop-gap solution. I'm sincerely afraid their short-term "fix" could cause you long-term problems.

Hey Lisa, I was just reading a post about Google News errors and I remembered your question. This part might help? Unknown publication name – an error that I frequently come across in troubleshooting Google News issues is an “unknown publication name” error for the Google News sitemap, which is reported in the Sitemaps section of the site’s Google Webmaster Tools profile**.** This error is triggered when the publication name used in the <name>tags in the Google News sitemap is not an exact match to the publication name in Google News’ database</name>. To determine the correct name to use do a [site:domain] search in Google News and see what publication name is displayed for the indexed pages**.** Source: http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/the-most-common-google-news-errors/

It's hard to say. The accepted wisdom seems to say that 301s pass most link equity, but not all.

Thanks for the reply. My site is www.atcsolutions.com/ and the site we have an ad with is http://www.lowtax.net/ which is a PR5 site but I'm worried by the ammount of advertising they have added. I went away for christmas and when I came back we had recived 10,000 links from them. We didn't buy links from them but we do advertise with them and when I was gone another guy I work with arranged it with them and I didn't relise we were getting follow links untill I returned. Say it is them. What should I do? ask for the link to be changed to a no follow and hope that sorts it? take down all links and ads? Im just not sure but if it is them I need to act fast.

Thanks - Seb although we haven't recieved any sort of warning in GWT which is odd and it hasn't effected all the keywords.

_A tough choice. As the geo specific sites are not Country code top-level domains, it will be all the more difficult for you to make Google understand that the purpose of launching these websites is to serve the local targeted readers. It might even look like an attempt of domain farming whose main purpose is to rank high in location specific keywords by launching keywords rich domains. If your business has physical business address in these locations, you can submit your business details in Google Places. And of course you are free to create location specific pages in your main website given the fact that you are adding some interesting details there. No stuffing of keywords or rehash content just to get higher rankings in competitive terms.  _