Domain "Forwarded"?

[DerekM88]

Hi SEOMoz!

The company I work for has a website, www.accupos.com, but they also have an old domain which is not used anymore called http://accuposretail.com/

These two sites had duplicate content so I requested the OLD site (http://accuposretail.com/) be redirected to accupos.com to eliminate the dupe content. Unfortunately, I do not understand completely what happened but when they performed this forwarding the accuposretail.com URL is still in use. Now it just displays EXACTLY what accupos.com displays and not something similar. The tech team told me it is forwarded but I can't help but see the URL still in the search box on top.

Is this unacceptable? The actual URL has to forward and change to the accupos.com URL in order to not be duplicate content, correct? I have limited experience in this. Please let me know if we are good to go, or if I need to tell them more action is required.

Thanks!

Derek M

[PracticeFusion]

More action is definitely required :).

There currently is no redirect set up. When I visit http://accuposretail.com/ I receive a status of 200. If there was a redirect then I'd be able to see either a 301 or 302 redirect.

This is definitely a BIG duplicate content issue that you'll want to jump on fast. Have them 301 redirect the old domain to the new.

Best of luck!

[Copstead]

I agree with Phil.  The site isn't being redirected to the new one.  Most likely what they setup is a rewrite instead of a redirect.

Tell the tech team that the url of the old site should never be visible.

And you can use tools like this to verify that it is actually redirecting.  (you should see a 301 redirect)

http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/