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Discovered some really odd words ranking for us in WMT. Looked further and found  pages like this www.pdnseek.com/wll/canadian-24-hour-pharmacy. When you click it it redirects to the home page. The developers can't find /wll anywhere on the site. The pages are indexed and cached.

Looked at the back links in moz and found many backlinks to our site from other sites using URLs like this.  The host says there is nothing on the server, but where else could it be. We've run virus scans, nothing, looked through source code, nothing.

Anyone with some idea?  www.pdnseek.com is the URL

Soooooo, I did a crawl report on this site : www.greatwesternflooring.com and this was what was on the report. This is a dnn site. I'm guessing the site has a redirect loop given the http status code. Can anyone help me with a fix. (the developers have said there is no redirect on the site......clearly there is....)

| http://www.greatwesternflooring.com/ | 2015-01-07T21:32:25Z | 609 : Redirect to already-visited URL received for page request. | Error attempting to request page; see title for details. | 302 | http://www.greatwesternflooring.com |

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This is the page http://www.christoit.com/free-resources/articles. While this page isn't what I would consider to be a "resource page"  (there are no downloads or any other resources)  The question is, does a page like this that just has links to articles, hurt the overall ranking of the site.

If you have any examples to support your opinion that would be great!

Thanks so much for all awesome threads and answers on this site. There are some really smart people all in one place!

I think we can all be in agreement that one site with subdomain is the best option. Thank you all for confirming what I thought was probably the right direction, but just needed to hear it somewhere else

I have a client that sponsors  a couple of events during the year. They currently have pages within a single website for these events but are interested in creating a separate website so they can brand the events differently.  I'm not sure this is the most effective way to do it for fear of losing the "google juice" already there for these pages.Here's what I'm thinking is a better strategy: 1) Host the content both on the main domain and the sub-domain2) Make sure there is a tag on each page of the sub-domain version that points to the main version.That will give them the branding they are seeking while pushing all juice across to the main domain.What are your thoughts?

I don't currently know which one is linked to more often. I will look into that. Thanks for that little tip and your fast response.

I get that!!  Does this happen when a site is built?  Does it just happen by default, or was something not done correctly when the site was built?

Thanks for your quick response

I just put my site in moz analytics. The crawl results says I have duplicate content. When I look at the pages it is because one page is www.xyz.com and the duplicate is xyz.com.   What causes this and how can it be fixed. I'm not a developer, so be kind and speak a language I can understand.

Thanks for your help

See below and pls let us know what we have to do solve this :

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Joel Day (Moz Help)

Mar 07 05:03 PM

Hey Tracy,

It looks like there's a redirect loop on your site.

greatwesternflooring.com redirects to www.greatwesternflooring.com/ which in turn 302 redirects back into itself.

You'll likely need to fix the redirect before you can continue configuring the campaign.

Thanks!
Joel.

Moz
t: @HelpWizard

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Tracy

Mar 07 03:14 PM

I sent an email, and this is the response I got. The help forum sent me here, so here I am

An answer was posted to this question:
Question I have a valid URL greatwesternflooring.com, but when I try to add this campaign I get an "opps" message telling me it's not a valid URL. Can you help me?

Answer
This looks like a bug. Please reach out to us via support so that we can forward this along to our Developers for review. Thanks!(https://moz.com/help/contact)
See where this question was originally asked.

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