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Hi Pashmina, How does Website A is a redirect to Website B and can it has one page indexed? If Website A has a 301 PERMANENT redirection to Website B, then I think it should stay permanent. If Website A has a page indexed, then I presume it is not a 301 redirection.  In that case, moving the content and making a 301 redirect from Website B to Website A would be a good idea in term of SEO. But, you shouldn't only think in term of SEO, you should also think in term of branding and usability. What is the domain name that reflects your brand? relates to your products? is easier to remember? Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Technically no, Google will only crawl pages that are publically available. However, you could use their first click free feature - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74536 - depends how much you think you would gain from doing that or what sort of non-payment abuse it opens you up to.

WordPress does it automatically if you've got your permalinks set up. WordPress .htaccess should look like this: BEGIN WordPress <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule> END WordPress And it should be .php not .html anyway in WP Is WMT finding links to .html pages from pages on your site or from external links?

Thank you everybody. I will give whitespark a shot.

Thanks Wissam. I was thinking this was the way to go, and I appreciate your input. I do use the Yoast SEO plugin for Wordpress on another site, but the blog in question is through BlogEngine. I will do what you have suggested. Cheers!

Chang ethings so A to C B to C I am not sure that 2 redirects is really that bad, i saw a matt cutts video where he made it sould like i or 2 was not the problem.

Yeah - htaccess is the way to go for rewrite rules. Check out http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection for more depth/detail, too.

If that's the timeframe, it's most likely not the recent Farmer Update. I'd guess it's most likely to be a penalty of some kind (manipulative linking practices, cloaking, thin/duplicate/scraped content are the most likely culprits). You might check out these posts for more detail: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-handle-a-google-penalty-and-an-example-from-the-field-of-real-estate http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google

Hi Oxygenretreat, Singulars and plurals should be treated the same, so your main page should be targeting both "exotic vacations" and "exotic vacation" because Google sees them as the same in most instances.  As for internal linking, it doesn't hold near the weight with Google as it has in the past.  My suggestion would be to make sure that your anchor text is related to the page and thats about it.  If you have a page about exotic vacations make sure that the internal anchor text links to it with some form of exotic vacations and not some term like "home".  Since internal anchor text is easily manipulated Google has reduced it's role in their ranking models over the past years. Casey

The mozBar treats com.ua as a top level domain.  The confusion seems to be between the root domain google.com.ua and the subdomain www.google.com.ua.  For a more complete explination of root domains vs. subdomains, here's a helpful article:  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

Thank you to both for replies. Gianluca that was exactly the answer I was looking for I guess which showed that I was on the right lines with my own thinking and learning but I also think I wasn't confident enough to assert that to someone developing an ecommerce site themselves from within their own limited resources. But my initial spot of duplicate content on their site was right, their view is to fix it with robots.txt and no index tags so your excellent second link, Gianluca, and JoelHit's response has enabled me to give them to explain their situation and confidently recommend a solution appropriate to their needs. Many thanks

In the example you've presented, I don't see a duplicate title tag. Product name A is different from product name B, which makes title page A different from title page B. If you want those titles to be even more unique, you could consider sometimes such as: Title page (A): Product name A | Unique Selling Point for product A with Good Keywords Title page (B): Product name B | Different Selling Point for Product B with Different Keywords