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If this solution works you have a lot of potential customers. Here is a thought... Since google is demoting sites that have lots of duplicate content if you use name="robots" content="noindex, follow" /> on all of the duplicate pages then the pages that remain in the index will have a better chance of ranking. There are also other ways to keep them out of the index.

I've reversed the domain migration and am waiting for results. Already the old site is starting to gain ranking after 3 days. How should I go about migrating this content in the future?

Hi Wayne, indexing and indexing speed may depend a bit on the total number of pages/URLs in the site combined with your current site authority, but basically the URL structure shouldn't give you any problems. Same as Istvan, I recommend installing the Yoast SEO plugin and also create an HTML sitemap (where all your clicks will be only 1 click away from home). Good luck!

We had spaces in the URL that browsers handled well but not spiders.  We replaced the spaces with dashes with dynamic code and...it's off to the next problem. Thanks

Yes, you could do multiple XML Sitemaps and then do a sitemap-index.xml referring to each of the individual sitemaps. I would also then add the URL to the XML Sitemap Index file in the robots.txt Something like: Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap-index.xml

Yes, if Google see's both it isn't good. Neither are search engine friendly URL structures either. I would at least set up a canonical tag pointing one to the other, or ideally modify the site so only one URL exists and 301 redirect the others.

Thanks for your help.

Does schema validate though?

I don't think it matters much which order if you're talking about the SEO benefit of where the keyword is. To me, it just makes more logical sense to choose www.companynamejobs.com from an English language standpoint. If my choice was between "SEOmozjobs.com" and "jobsSEOmoz.com" I would choose the first one (although they both look a little like spam to me, which is why I still think using a subfolder is better)

Hi Devin, many thanks for your reply. It does very much sense of what you are saying and you are right most competitors don't even have widgets in title. Good example Google is google not best search results.com I think I might go for it because it will bug me for years if I dont change it because all the long tails is all plural...ie cheap blue widgets rather then blue widget.... Is there an alternative to 301 what I planned to do is redirect each product to the new product so done correctly or is there a better way.. Many thanks again

That what I was afraid of - that both the table information and sitelinks were autogenerated from Google without any support from the website owner. I'm still really curious on how Google got to the sitelinks. Any suggestions?

Exact match on subdomains have very very low weight.  Anyone can create thousands of exact match subdomains without much effort and cost - in fact the exact match weight has been on the decline even on the root domain.

A 301 is the code returned by your web server, along with the address of the new page. htaccess (mod_rewrite) is the most powerful tool to do this because it uses regular expressions to filter (which, consequently, also makes it more difficult to use). You don't have to use htaccess, however. Virtually all server-side programming languages (like PHP, .NET, Ruby on Rails, etc) support telling Apache what headers to return. Here's a PHP example header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location:http://www.newsite.com"); exit();

This one's a bit weird - your main "Login" link is fine - this is happening down in the comments section (under "Leave a Reply") - that login link tags the source page, so that you can return to the post. In this case, I think I'd actually nofollow that and it's probably fine to block it in Robots.txt. This is where things get really situational, as normally I'd advise against that - see my recent post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/logic-meet-google-crawling-to-deindex In your situation, though, Google only seems to be indexing 2 of those URLs currently, so you can probably cut this off before it becomes a problem. Our crawler is being a bit more aggressive in this situation (and, honestly, these links could pose a problem long-term). If you had a ton of these pages indexed, I'd agree with Slava and recommend rel-canonical, because Robots.txt is pretty ineffective for de-indexing (plus, nofollow causes the problem in my post). Sorry, I'm making this clear as mud I think a nofollow and blocking are fine here, because basically the problem hasn't happened yet - you're trying to prevent future problems.  You could also monitor for these URLs in Google's index for a few weeks, using this command: site:irishdancingdress.com/wp-login.php ...if that number stays low (it's currently 2), then you're good to go.

Thanks Tim, great shout. Just checked and you were right. Bit slap on the wrists all round. Thanks again!

That works perfectly, thank you very much