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Forgetting all other issues, I am assuming you are using a PHP redirect to accomplish this and that you have three sites: .co.nz, .co.au, and .com which you are using the geo targeting preference for US. Given that you have three sites, they will be indexed individually based on all the normal ways a site is indexed. So, links to site A will bring a googlebot. Sitemap of site B will bring same. Etc. If you are using some type of cross domain canonical or have any redirects of one site to the other for any reason, they will be followed across as well. All domains will be crawled independent of one another. So, you need to get links to each. Best,

Kate, Chenzo is right re the 404 but you are likely not getting any real juice from a profile page. That said, a 302 is a temp redirect and does not convey juice. To me, I do not see a reason to do a 301. You could use either.

Right, I guess really it will be a matter of  a waiting game than anything. I didn't think there was a way to do it, but I was just wondering if anyone out there had more theories.

I would agree with Marcus on this one.  The first thing that you would want to do is plan ahead think about your niche and think about who you are advertising too. I would definitely suggest creating a wire frame of what your website will look like, what pages will social media links(if any) will be on your website. The most important thing you can do is plan accordingly and create a wire frame then a sitemap, and go from there.

It may well be used mainly by tech start-ups but it is a country specific domain. It is specific to the British Indian Ocean Territory. For example, the .tv extension is used mainly by sites with video content but it is in fact a country specific domain for Tuvalu.

Gavin Since you have added the noindex in the pages, the best way is to let Google crawl those pages, see the noindex and remove them. The other option is to keep everything as is and request these parameter pages via your Google Webmaster Console. Option 1: You never know how long it takes Option 2: This should happen relatively fast I would therefore suggest keeping everything as is and doing a removal request.

Being active on the Facebook page will help her shared new content on her site as it gets further developed. She can link to her blog posts once it is up and running and soon people will be bookmarking and linking to her blog versus solely following her on Facebook. Good luck with the site, it looks like a great opportunity for building SEO experience!

Thanks Chad and activitysuper for your replies

Hello Rand, I've been facing a similar problem with my site. I'd really appreciate your response here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/help-fixing-the-traffic-drop-that-started-on-4-september-2012.

Igor Are you seeing these warning/errors for Duplicate Titles or Descriptions ? And are you seeing those via the Google Webmaster Console ? I see there's an opportunity to customize the meta data a little bit better then what it is currently and it would help to know where the errors are coming from and how you are ranking for some of these terms.

Thank you both for your answers, I really appreciate, they are very helpful!

Kate, this is Very Helpful - thank you for your thoughtful ideas!! I will get right on it!

Yes there is but there was an update this weekend that lowered the value of exact match domains (emd) and partial match domains (pmd)

In general, you should either have the tag OR categories OR archives page indexed, the others noindexed. Having all 3 creates duplicate content issues (usually they have the same post content snippets in different order/page #s). If you choose not to noindex them, you should mod_rewrite those URLs to looks like.com sacma.com/blog/tag/inbound-marketing/. And the /blog/ page should have a canonical set to itself to avoid dupe content.

Hi everyone, I know this thread hasn't been active for a while but i'm looking for an answer relating to a similar issue. Our infrastructure team had issues a few weeks ago and were routing bot traffic to a slave server. This obviously flagged up 403 errors in webmaster tools. Having removed the traffic diversion our site hasn't been indexed in the three weeks since serving Googlebot with a 403 response. Does anyone have experience of Google delaying reindexing of a site after experiencing a 403 response? Thanks

My suggestion is not different from others so i think i will also advice and recommends you to use ‘/’instead of default.aspx and more... I know you want to get better results and traffic from search engine but to be very honest...with ASP websites it’s a real pain (if you are using ASP platform...) I think following things should be considered as more important than adding keywords in the URL... There should be a proper navigational structure and pages should be 301 redirected instead of 302 (if any) Use single version of URL Add kick ass content Get quality links to it Keep a check of functionality and load time of the website so that things can stay under control And more... I think adding too many keywords that does not add value to user will hurt from search engine point of view as search engines are trying hard to come as nearer as possible to how human brain thinks...

Hi Andrea Are you all set with this? The transfer may have had to do with it, but the main importance now is to follow Adam's good advice - find the source of the 404 links and change them on your site. If they're indexed or backlinked to from elsewhere on the web, you need to 301 them to an existing page. Let us know if you still need help! -Dan

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