Consolidating Fragmented Viral

[Dan-Petrovic]

Hi guys, I've done something rather stupid... allowed Google to index two variations of a single viral piece therefore fragmenting the way it's being distributed and diluting its effect.

Here are the URLs:

1. http://analogik.com/acid_trip/ (68 Tweets, 254,000 stumbles)
2. http://analogik.com/acid_trip/acid_trip.html (24 Tweets, 155,000 stumbles)

If I 301, what happens to counters?

What can I do?

PS: I cannot update my post on Youmoz now that it's published but I cannot stress the importance of a single solid location of something you want to act as a linkbait.

[krissy-cca]

Hey,

Can't you add a canonical on one of the pages and still keep the page up instead of 301?

DD

[Dan-Petrovic]

Omg. Thanks. I will certainly implement rel="canonical" should have done that in the first place... any tips in terms of consolidating counters? I don't think either Twitter or Facebook have that (and neither does YouTube). To bad...

[krissy-cca]

I don't think you can, well, not that I know of anyway. If you could then you'd probably see people trying to consolodate counters for totally different pages in an attempt to make a certain page look more popular / get more authority behind it.

DD

[Dan-Petrovic]

Very good point.