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When you say you are not getting crawled, are you judging that by the cache date in Google, or by looking at the log files of your server? When I do the following search in Google: site:www.mediaxpress.net october The blog does pop up, with the October blog post in the snippet. The cached version of the page is still from late September, but information from yesterday IS being indexed.

Hello CommercePundit, I'm going to recommend Justin Taylor's first reply as the best solution here. You want your cake and you want to eat it too, but unfortunately that is against several of Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Either give each of those sites their own content, which would mean not using the same database, which would mean investing a LOT of money, which is probably not scalable or doable - OR - Give up the idea of having a mirror-site on multiple geotargeted domains and instead 301 redirect those to the primary / canonical domain at www.lilyanncabinets.com . You could also use the cross-domain rel canonical tag as suggested by Justin, but I find that does best on content websites. Due to the nature of an eCommerce site (e.g. secure shopping carts, etc...) I think just redirecting the domains would be best. You can put up a landing page for each location if you have a good reason to, such as having office or warehouse locations in those areas. But if you have no presence in those areas and are just trying to get traffic because they are big markets I wouldn't do that either. Go for the national market instead. I see on the Orlando site that the contact address is in Toledo, Ohio. You don't have to take our advice, but you asked for it and despite your other sites getting traffic I think getting rid of, and redirecting, all of those mirror sites is the best long-term option if you want to continue getting business from search engines. Let's assume that you can get local traffic with those other domains and business does really well for a few months or even a year or two. You hire more people and buy a bigger house/warehouse/infrastructure... only to have Google wipe out every one of your sites completely with a single algorithm update. Now you're firing people, selling your house and looking for a job. It's not worth it, IMO.

Hi, There are a few different ways to answer your question... First, those pages are technically duplicated. If you go to either URL they return the same content with a status 200. That should be easy enough for your programmers to correct. They need to detect if the URL contains "php"  and, if so, 301 redirect to the ".html" version. Remember though that it isn't just the extension that is different. In the HTML version you have dashes and underscores in the PHP version. However... Second, the real question for duplicate content isn't "do I have it?" but "where are the multiple URLs?" You want to know how SEOmoz found that ".php" version if you haven't linked to it internally. The way to do that is to download the CSV file in the upper right hand corner of the duplicate content page. Column L (the duplicate page content column) tells you "TRUE" if that page is duplicated and column AM contains the referral. You want to check that referral source to see how they found the link. Finally, check to see if Google and Bing have indexed these PHP pages. Also, check to see if you've gotten traffic to the PHP pages. If they haven't been indexed and you don't have any traffic, you probably are okay. But, I'd still investigate to find the source and then redirect the PHP version to the HTML version. (Edit: check external links to...is anybody else linking to these ".php" pages?) I hope that helps. Thanks, Matthew

I don't like to set canonical tag on my eCommerce website. Because, I have already set up canonical tag on my previous version. I want to open my pages for crawling, indexing and ranking.

You can't force the rate at which your site's old content is de-indexed and accounted for using the new pages. Leave that to Google and have some fresh juice to lighten up. Cheers, Rajesh Dhawan

I wouldn't worry about it. Your site is indexed in Google and is, likely, cached. Just because Google's cache: operator isn't working properly for you at the moment isn't a real cause of concern.

Hi, if you really want Google to notice the change making a 301 redirect isn't enough. You should tell Google that all sites are yours through Webmaster Tools, all versions with www. and without w's. Then in each one of them you have to tell google via WMT (Change adress tool) that you are going to change url to a new one. All this must be done after making 301's. You can have more info here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en I hope you solve the issue, at least this is how I've done it before but I don't consider myself an expert. Ciao.

This is good for me... Let me drill down more on that article.... I'll check in Google webmaster tools before make it live on server... So, It may help me more to achieve 100% perfection in task!

If you just allow the link to go 404, google will notice that you have a fault on your site - and no juice will be passed from the linking part. If Google is the one ranking your page, sending you customers and perhaps (as in our case) gives you 30% of your customers online -Then you dont want them to see any faults on your site! If you 301, juice will be passed and you have the chance to present interesting stuff for the users (potential customers) that have clicked the link ... Good links are hard to get, so you should nurture them. Make sure they reach a related page/product - add a 301-text message serverside, telling the potential customer that this merchandise is out of stock, not produced anymore or whatever reason. Depending on your company-type, make it personal: "Hi. Sorry we're aout of stock on this product. Sorry. Regards Tina, Salesmanager (add image)" Google gave you GWT for a reason. Make sure you weekly take care of faults listed in there, and take them serious. Dont bite the hand that feeds you ;o) I dont know the structure of your site, but we did some serverside-301-automatics, redirecting old product-pages to nearest avaiable product: /travel/spain/mallorca/alcudia/non-existing-hotel --> /travel/spain/mallorca/alcudia On single info-pages we found relevant pages. All redirects came with a 301-message displayed on page, telling customers why we send them somewhere else.

Google is most likely following links on other sites pointing to your old site and then 301'ing to the new site so you're seeing activity in WMT looking here is still see two pages in the index: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:http%3A%2F%2Flampslightingandmore.com%2F&oq=site:http%3A%2F%2Flampslightingandmore.com%2F&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.1146.2239.0.2363.6.6.0.0.0.0.309.1495.2-3j2.5.0...0.0...1c.gwNTMFHM_dQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=13df23ca690bfc6f&biw=1920&bih=968 you can go in and remove the site in WMT using the remove URL tool and see if that stops activity in that old WMT account. Crawling or not crawling, reporting or not reporting, there is not an issue here though - the 301's appear to be properly set up.

Just give it some time, if you use a 301 from the old url to the new one and report the changes via google webmasters tools it should update fairly quick. Should be no need to fix the links. Edit (Fixing link instead of text): See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-move-your-content-to-new.html

Ideally you would look at which sales pitches have historically driven the best results for your products and test these online (are these prices, benefits of the product etc). If you have any tactical campaigns surrounding the products, I would include these within the description and change accordingly to when they start/finish

Good to know! I will follow The hard way or Another way... Thanks for prompt reply!

Sorry for confusions. By search results I thought you might have been specifically talking about putting keywords into a site search and getting the results page. I've noindexed that page. What you've said makes sense. Thanks Peter.

I always use a 301 redirect. 2K is a lot of pages.  If I can redirect them with a couple lines of htaccess code I would do it.  If I had to code 2K lines and have that huge file scanned for thousands of visitors I might not do it if I am pretty sure that there is very little traffic. I use lots of folders on my site and that makes these problems easy to solve.