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Hi Jeffrey, I think you'll see that most people are adverse to having some type of intermediate step to take before they see the home page. Can you explain to us a little more of how you envision this to happen technically, and what you're hoping to accomplish with it for your business?

Hi Erik, Everyone here has given you good advice, so let me just add my 2 cents. 301's using htaccess can be tricky, so if you get in over your head don't worry too much about it - the canonical tag should do the trick. Every time you use a canonical on your site, you'll see a notice in your crawl diagnostics dashboard. This is just a "notice", not a warning or an error. We just want you to know our spiders found a canonical in case you didn't intend to be there. Best of luck with your SEO!

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Appreciate the response, Keith. The integration would be ideal, I agree. It has to do more with the booking path of the properties and how they have that set up (proceeds for one booking goes to different organizations, and this is how they want to keep it ironed out). Your response was very helpful, though. Validated my hunch. Thanks...

I don't think the spam email has much to do with your positioning in Google - if they were to ban your page it wouldn't show anywhere. The more common results would be : someone has complained about the duplicate content found on other site site was using some illegal structure such as hidden text etc. There is obviously a connection between the email, website via IP address of the domain (that is if Email is hosted on the same server - MX records point to the same IP), but as already explained - if that was the case, you would most likely to be gone completely from SERP. I hope this answers your question.

Hi Guido, It seems none of the domains you mentioned are now working. You should return everything to the way it was before so that your client's sites are operable and then we can start over to resolve your problem. Incidentally, what just happened sounds slightly familiar to me. Are you using an Apache server? Sha

Hi Guys, Thanks for the responses I'm going to have a look at the issue again, with your suggestions in mind. And I'll keep you posted. Thanks again.

Thanks for the replies guys! Some really good answers. I know that it will be harder, but I'm going to give it a go! As they are already getting a company.com domain and will retain the company.co.uk page the only reason for the CLIENT-NAME.co.uk page is as a personal landing page / portfolio page. It is worth seeing if I can rank their name in the USA. The domain is set up to rank for this already and is already ranking close to page one. I have seen other name based domains rank in both countries. I think it is worth the risk as I doubt my clients UK rankings (for their name) will be altered. They have scores of links and the content is well targeted. Once more, thanks for the advice! Net66

Welcome Beth! So glad to have you here, and happy to hear about your experience in Q&A. Feel free to come back with any other questions you have!

To question #1, you will get a majority if not all of the link juice the old site had. Not sure if it will correctly record in open site explorer as 200 new root domain links though. As for #2, unrelated 301's are risky and not kosher with Google. If caught it could get you penalized.

I think I'll try eliminating a few direct match phrases on the page. Have a few more references to the company on it's own and the product on it's own. If that fails I'll re-write the content further. If it ends up being a duplicate content issue I'll be amazed, I just can't see passing for some keywords and failing for others because of duplicate content.

Bix, really appreciate you coming back to update this thread. Great that you had success! And, while we mustn't mix up correlation with causation, I'd say the effort you made is a very strong candidate for the causation of this. Well done! Again, thanks for taking the time to share your results. Could be very useful to others in the future who run into a problem like this. Miriam

Thanks, Thomas.

Are the pages blocked from crawling at all? I've seen that happen when Google can't crawl a page, but knows of it because of a followed link from elsewhere.

Nathan hello I think u solved my problem, the index of old sitemap seems to be the source of the problem kind regards michelle