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    • georgetsn
      georgetsn last edited by

      Wordpress website.

      The client's website is http://www.denenapoints.com/

      The URL that we purchase so that we could setup the hosting account is http://houston-injury-lawyers.com, which shows 1 page indexed in Google when I search for site:http://houston-injury-lawyers.com

      On http://www.denenapoints.com/ there is <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://houston-injury-lawyers.com/">

      But on http://houston-injury-lawyers.com it says the same thing, <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://houston-injury-lawyers.com/" />

      Is this how it should be setup, assuming that we want everything to point to http://denenapoints.com/?

      Maybe we should do a 301 redirect to be 100% Sure? Hopefully I explained this well enough. Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts, thanks!

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      • davebuts
        davebuts last edited by

        The canonical tag should point to the URL of the site that you want indexed.

        If you want denenapoints.com to be the indexed site the canonical tag on denenapoints.com must point to itself: http://www.denenapoints.com/

        NOT http://houston-injury-lawyers.com/

        I would 301 redirect the http://houston-injury-lawyers.com/ domain to prevent possible duplicate issues.

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        • georgetsn
          georgetsn last edited by

          Which I totally knew the entire time, I just wanted to show off their awesome website. (Runs and hides in corner)

          That makes sense, we'll implement the 301 redirect. We imported over 2500 pages for this project and we did a 310 redirect for each one. I guess one more won't hurt 🙂

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