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Hello Jeff, Thanks for your response as well!  Like you said, I think we have to customize some things in our CMS system (Composite C1).  I found some very helpfull documents which will help us with this. With a few tweaks I hope we can leave everything the same during the migration and change things later in small steps. Thanks a lot Jeff, Regards, Jorg

Thanks for the hint. Basically I'd always use the local language for the Urls, but I wonder if the japanese symbols are in any kind problematic to read for the search engines.

Thanks, I will check that out. I have been good with the links I have created myself. Some backlinks are spam, and we are working hard to break the link with those, but its tricky when it comes to Wordpress sites. I have actually checked out the recent links on high domain authority wordpress sites and they are having the same issue, but due to healthy amounts of good backlinks, it does not seem to be causing them an issue.

Makes sense to me. Thank you Peter!

Thank you for these answers. They provide a lot of insight. One comment about the translations though, is that there could be different countries using the same language (English is the obvious example here). While we can identify the pages through the use of different country subdomains, each country would still want to publish content on their own sites.

Hello Erez, You can follow a solved thread here http://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-and-http-and-https Thanks

I am comparing PRbuzz and PR web as I write this and will be making my decision within the next few days. PRBuzz has the annual unlimited distributions for $299 and PRweb is 4 or 5 monthly releases for about $1,500+. A little high for my budget, so probably going with PRbuzz will decide within the next day or so. They have good distribution, but not a recognized as the PRweb.

I think that now a days, with many sites using reverse proxies (such as CloudFlare) Google has stopped looking at the IPs as it is no longer a factor to rank sites. Jeff's point on the e-mail problem is right, however, you can simply host your email on a third party IP, like Google Apps, and never get blocked. Something that even dedicated IPs get the punch. I have a few dedicated servers, some of them with multiple IP addresses and I found myself trying to clean new IP addresses that just were to new or "abused" by previous owners. Switching hosting provider, however, while changing the IP address may increase/decrease rankings not because of the IP but most likely because of the site speed, which IS something that Google considers to rank sites.

I think you did the right thing. Engines will take a while until they re-crawl your robots.txt and actually following what you commanded. Extra steps I would take: 302 the redirect, probably is just a line of code doing the redirect after setting some cookies or session variables. Try to edit the affiliate codes to work with Javascript instead of naked URLs ( could be something like <ins class="affiliate">that is later switched to a text link or banner using JS). This will not only allow you to set a nofollow for those links, but you could be able to remove/block specific affiliates or pages where you don't want your links/banners.</ins> PS: have you tried fetching your robots.txt from Google WT (Crawl -> Blocked URLs) to see when was it downloaded and id the contents are ok?

Thank you Federico

I haven't found standard shipping info text to be much of a problem in terms of duplicate content on product pages, but if you're concerned about it I would consider an iframe. While hiding the content in a non-crawlable .js file might work, it isn't advisable. First, Google PreviewBot can parse javascript on the page and see the content in many cases, as is necessary to generate the site preview and visual cache of a page. Second, anything that keeps Google from being able to properly render the page may be considered suspect. Please view this video by Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BWbruCiDc Essentially, he says "Don't block Google bot from css or javascript".

Hi there, I'm just checking in to see what the current status of this issue is. Please let us know, thanks! Christy

Thanks for the good info Chris !

Hi, it's possible that the 301 redirect that you think is handling this URL is not that redirect. It may be worth checking your .htaccess file to see if this URL path  /industry-sectors/equine is being managed by another redirect. Check your .htaccess file for anything that might be overriding your URL path and taking it to the wrong URL. Peter

A three letter, brandable EMD-- Sounds like the kind of thing someone would want to keep and use or sell for a bunch of money. But then when you add the "6K junk links" it sound like the kind of thing someone would just want to sell and hope to get a bunch of money.  Playing games with the registrar isn't going to help help you in the matter.  Did you try offering them half price?  It still may not be worth it.

I agree with the others about using a description tag properly to avoid your donations showing up in the Meta Description for the page.  If you want to post a link to the site, I'd be happy to take a look at the page and see if there's a quick fix / work around for you... Thanks, Jeff

Saijo- Ideally, a sitemap has a list of all of the pages on a site in a flattened out structure, so that a search engine is able to view all of the pages quickly and easily. Typically an eCommerce site will have a structure like this: Home Page About Page Other content pages Main Category Page (with pagination), lists sub-categories    - Sub Category Page (with pagination), lists products (or perhaps another sub-category). Individual Product Pages Best practice seems to be: Make sure that all of the content and individual pages on the site are on the sitemap. For any page with pagination, link to the "View All" version of the category page (or any page with pagination), where instead of listing 9, 25 or 50 items, it lists all of the information on the page.  That way you don't have to list the paginated pages in the sitemap. (Note: if you have thousands of items on one of these "view all" pages, this might not be a viable option because the page load time might be too long and/or contain too many links). Hope this helps... Jeff

ahref.com and majesticseo.com both keep historical linking data. You could use these tools as well to determine if you have any inbound links that are not being redirected.

Don't worry too much about the sitemap.  When your new URLs are up, upload your sitemaps with the new urls and you're good. Between your redirects and sitemap, Google won't have a problem knowing about the new URLs--how long it takes to crawl all of them may be a different story.

Axial Dev, Thanks for responding I have considered the Robots disallow however my worry has been several Videos by Matt Cutts talking about how now that the Google Bot can make AJAX requests that the best practice is to allow it to do so. So that is why I have not thrown on all around disallow addition to our robots.txt file, but It is clearly having issues on our site distinguishing the difference between a server side AJAX request on our site vs an actual real URL that should be indexed Below is Matt Cutts plea to allow Java script to be allowed to be crawled there are a few others out there as well. Does anyone else have experience with AJAX server side requests being indexed and how they combated the issue? watch?v=B9BWbruCiDc