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Hi Matt. I have one more question in regards to your initial reply. I am on board with redirecting the .co.uk site to .com/UK/ but what would you then suggest we do with the new .com homepage? I originally thought from your answer that you was suggesting to redirect the new .com homepage to .com/UK now I don't believe this to be the case. Would you suggest having a location selector page on the .com homepage with ? We currently only have 3 main locations (although we are expanding rapidly) so I am not sure this is really required. Or would you have it set in GWT as targeting no specific location, and again set . Would this give us the best chance to try and grow in areas we do not currently have a regional website for? Thanks again for all your assistance so far. Much appreciated!

Hi Sandeep! If Russ answered your question, mind marking his response as a "Good Answer?" It helps us keep track of things, and it'll give him a few extra MozPoints (less important since he works here, but still).

Hi Faisal, I'm so sorry that Moz Local doesn't support Canada at this time. For citation assistance in Canada, Whitespark.ca is probably the most high-regarded service. You might want to check out their offerings, and nice to know they are fellow Canadians.

Two servers? The existing one to process the redirects and a new one to handle the reverse proxy. Or vice versa. So the DNS for the old domain would point to a server that does the redirects. However, the server that hosts the site will be set to reverse proxy. Another way of looking at this concept would be to take down and redirect the old site, and to start a new site, with the exact same files/database, that will be used to serve the content in the subdirectory/folder. Ask what they think of that idea. I certainly don't have all the answers to every situations, but will do my best to help you find a workable solution.

Thank you Erica, that confirms my suspicions.

The static page examples are now 404 so I can't see those ones - I didn't notice a redirect before. But the parameter pages redirect. The parameter page is still being found by Google though and if it continues can easily be fixed in the Search Console settings.

What about the on page SEO for the blank page? Anything there? I agree with the other guys, sounds like this blank page has some signals going to it ... possibly a really powerful link (even by accident) that could be pushing it's PA up.

Hey Robert! Though I don't know the complete details of your scenario, you've done a good job providing some clues. Here is what I'd suggest: These do sound like two distinct businesses. There is no obvious connection between a roofing contractor and a window washing company. So, good on this. I am assuming the 2 companies are fully differentiated with different names, phone numbers, separate websites that don't interlink and totally unique content on the two websites. Any other approach would be problematic. However, both of your business models are likely SABs (service area businesses) unless customers are actually visiting either company at the place of business. That seems unlikely for either a roofing contractor or a window washer. If both are SABs, you should be hiding the Google My Business listing address for both. Providing you are doing everything in point #2 correctly, there is no reason not to include complete NAP on each website for the company. You don't need to hide the address on the website or on other citations. You only need to do that on Google, because it's their unique requirement. Hope this helps and please let me know if you have any further questions!

Thanks John! I checked a few Etsy category and item pages and found the og: tag. Great answer and I'm glad you found this interesting and useful.

Is the blog on a separate domain or subdomain? Can you share the URLs? Most likely you'll want to add rel="nofollow" to the links rather than disavow them, but it's hard to say definitively without understanding the site architecture as a whole and what you hope to accomplish. Regardless, you might want to dig deeper to find out why those links are being flagged.

Hi Ramendra, To my knowledge, you can only provide directives in the robots.txt file for the domain on which it lives. This goes for both http/https and www/non-www versions of domains. This is why it's important to handle all preferred domain formatting with redirects, that point to your canonicalized version. So if you want http://www to index, all other versions redirect to that. There might be a work around of some sort, but honestly, what I described above with redirection towards preferred versions is the direction you should take. Then you can manage one robots.txt file and your indexing will align with what you want better.

That's great. Thanks Tim.

Thank you for taking the time out Dirk you have put my mind to rest.

When I visit the duplicate URLs, for example http://www.ebids.com.pk/store/fashion-point/?category_name=spare-parts-accessories&parent_id=3708&page=store_about, I don't get redirected - the URL stays the same. It looks like these are different tabs within the section of the seller Fashion Point - and both the title tag and content looks the same for all of them. For the URLs that are top-level tabs, like &page=store_about, or &page=company_policies, etc, I would do 2 things: Update the title tag to say something like "About Fashion Point" or "Fashion Point's Company Policies." This will take care of a duplicate title tag problem. Encourage, the people behind the Fashion Point account, (and probably all accounts), to fill out all of the tabs, so there's actual About, Company Policy, etc. content there - then the content will actually be different, so you won't get duplicate content problems. It might be a good idea to require that those sections are filled out before making the storefront public for a user, that way potential buyers will have more information about who they're buying from, and and the empty sections won't cause duplicate content problems.

Hi Anirban, Can you tell me a bit more about this page? Why is it only on the mobile site and not the desktop? I wouldn't expect this to be an issue for SEO (especially not with a single page - maybe if you were doing this for lots and lots of pages we could see an issue). But I would suggest asking yourself whether it makes sense for this page to be mobile only. If so, how likely is it for a desktop user to even find this page? It likely won't rank for desktop but that's a good thing because it's not really available to desktop searchers (since you've implemented a redirect).

Hi Anoop! I agree with VERBInteractive—this is one of those questions that requires us to be able to see the site and the pages that aren't being indexed.

That's really helpful Paddy - Thanks!