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I may be missing the point here, but why do you need two pages at all? Google understands synonyms so surely as boat / ferry are essentially the same thing, you could probably get away with just writing one... Especially as the message would be the same for both topics.

If you feel you need two pages, then definitely make them unique!

As for URLs - if you can, make sure your keyword is in the url.

Hope this helps

Hi,

I'm going to have to give you a little bit of a back story here...

In July last year we launched a brand new website, www.turnkeylandlords.co.uk. It was on a new domain.

The IT department set it live, and unfortunately messed up the DNS settings so that the site was launched under the wrong domain, smartloan.co.uk.

This error was rectified within hours.

Unfortunately in those few hours, Google indexed it!

I then had to set up webmaster tools for both domains, so I could use the 'remove URLs' tool in there, to remove all the URLs from the smartloan domain.

That all worked fine, the Landlords site was probably set back a bit, but we're now achieving some quite good results for it.

2 weeks ago we launched Smartloan as a product, and of course launched the website we've been working on for months...

You guessed it! Google is now looking for all those old Landlords pages under Smartloan.

My first thought is that we should do 301s. Would that be the best course of action, do you think? Webmaster tools has found 25 of them so far, but I know there are more - the Landlords site launched with about 90 pages...

And where should I send the 301's? To the Landlords site, or to the smartloan root?

Is there anything else I should do?

Thanks for your help!

Amelia

Thank you Marcus!

I didn't even think of deleting the original 301! What a bloomin' obvious solution

I really appreciate you taking the time to answer this for me.

Amelia

Hi - This is the first time I've asked a question!

My site, www.turnkeylandlords.co.uk is going through a bit of a redesign (for the 2nd time since it launched in July 2012...)

First redesign meant we needed to move a page (https://www.turnkeylandlords.co.uk/about-turnkey-mortgages/conveyancing/) from the root to the 'about-us' section. We implemented a 301 redirect and everything went fine.

I found out yesterday that the plan is to move this page (and another one as well, but it's the same issue so no point in sharing the URL) back to the root.

What do I do? A new 301? Wouldn't this create a loop?

Or just delete the original 301?

Thanks in advance,

Amelia