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Does anybody have an idea? Its really freaking me out. A couple of days ago the redirected version had 32 indexed pages, and today it has 53. How come a redirected website is getting indexed? I thought the minute a 301'ed page would be crawled, it would automatically be removed from the index.

Fascinating... Thanks for the follow-up; it's good to hear, albeit troubling that it took Google so long.

Click on traffic sources, which source is dropping? A certain engine? PPC? Are the same keywords driving traffic?

This may make it a little easier to carry out. http://www.htaccessredirect.net/ A 301 redirect to the root domain should do the trick.

In this case site B is not a new site. I am not moving all traffic to site B only a portion which included duplicate urls that were software generated between domains.

Again, great resources, Daniel.  The first link provides some empirical evidence that ajax based links do get interpreted.  SEOmofo had a nice recommendation that should stop google from indexing your JS if need be.  He basically said put your JS in an external file that you disallow in robots.txt. From your second link The search appliance only executes scripts embedded inside a document. The search appliance does not support: DOM tracking to support calls, such as document.getElementById External scripts execution AJAX execution Not exactly sure what "AJAX execution" means.  However, if it means downloading JSON or JS and evaluating it that makes sense.  Perhaps not external JS gets executed by google? The third link discusses the "agreement" you can make with a crawler if you have an ajax based site using hash bang urls.  Not super relevant for me but good to know so thanks!

After comparing your links, I see that there are a few parameters that your ticketing platform added to the end of the URLs, like ReturnURL and CntPageID. You can go into your Google and Bing Webmaster Tools, and Yahoo Site Explorer as well, and tell these search engines to ignore those parameters on all URLs of your site. I'd also recommend canonical URLs if you have the option in your ticketing system. Now I'm not sure whether or not those parameter handling settings will be sent to SEOmoz when linking to Google WMT. Anybody?

I thought about a subdomain, but I think it would complicate things from an SEO standpoint. From what I've learned, a subdomain here would get treated as a separate domain and send link juice to an English page that wouldn't be accessible to visitors direct (only within another Chinese page as a lightbox). I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do this. What I'm looking for is ranking effects of using the Lang element or ATTLIST declaration with lang element to identify various languages on the same page. Or if there is any other way to let search engines know I'm using multiple languages on a single page, it'd be a super time saver. Thanks for all your input so far!

It's not really a duplicate content issue, mostly a reporting issue in GA due to some tracking features people choose to implement.  There's a discussion here that tells you how to filter the issue in your reports: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=65a45d4ad4f6871a&hl=en

Thanks Ryan.  So apparently it is OK to have relative links, as long as they are done correctly.  My developers insist that they HAVE done them correctly, but SEOmoz flags it anyway because for all it knows, the base link may not have been set to the right location.  I'm going to see if I can get the URLs changed to absolute.

If your goal is to "get a message out" then you want to syndicate that message to every website that will post it. However, if your goal is to "advance your own website" then syndication of verbatim articles will place your content on other websites.  That will give those websites an opportunity to rank above you for your own keywords.  It can also get your website filtered from the search results or considered as "low quality" by the search engines. Also, the links that you get from syndication are often removed by the website owner or nofollowed.  And, many of these websites really don't have links that will provide any useful ranking power - because they have no viable links of their own.

Paulo, you'll have to test the speed of your site yourself, but you can do so at a place like: http://www.uptrends.com/aspx/free-website-server-network-monitoring-tool.aspx It will display results from other countries and cities from around the world and help you decide whether or not you need a cdn.

thank you ! i will try it

Hi Erin - Is that a Google Webmaster file? Looking at those URLs in SERPS, it seems you have some content causing duplicates (although the file doesnt seem to represent it that way). Here's the URLs in Google search results for Term-Life-Insurance: http://www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/term-life-insurance http://www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/term-life-insurance/montreal/quebec (duplicate of previous) http://www.healthchoices.ca/video-link/insurance-and-disability-planning/Term-Life-Insurance http://www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/term-life-insurance/laval/quebec (duplicate of previous) Looking at the first two as an example, when you look at th pages themselves they are currently not exact duplicates. The first one is a video of a guy talking about term life insurance with some other video links, and the second page is a page that has an error "Error: Video Category Page is currently unavailable." where the page content should be. But that page had previously been an exact duplicate of the first URL the last time Google visited the page. Here is the first page again: http://www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/term-life-insurance Here is the cached version of the second (duplicate) page (as I'm currently seeing it, it was last cached on Apr 19, 2011): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lBiovAAyiF0J:www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/term-life-insurance/montreal/quebec+site:www.healthchoices.ca+inurl:Term-Life-Insurance&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com To see these pages (or any potential duplicate URL issues), do this search in Google: site:www.healthchoices.ca To find pages with a specific URL pattern (like the term life insurance pages) try "site:www.healthchoices.ca inurl:Term-Life-Insurance" (without the quotation marks) Then at the end of the URL you see in the address bar, add "&filter=0" (without the quoutes). So what is in your browser address bar would look like this (although it may have some additional thinkgs in your URL like your previous query and your browser and language for example - that's ok): http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.healthchoices.ca+inurl:Term-Life-Insurance&filter=0 I'm not sure what the URL issue is that you're referring to exactly based on the info you pasted and where you may have gotten it from - but I hope this is helpful.