I'd always hold out or test a few pages see if they benefit or get hammered.

Use Rel="no index, no follow" on the link and roger will ignore the link. Job done

You wouldn't get any advantage of seeing the added items in someones wishlist as it would be duplicate content I'm presuming.

No I'd leave them in as there may be other Indexes that link to them or even blogs, sites or even somebody may have sent an email with the original link in.

301 doesn't hurt your ranking and would continue to deliver those 404 results for you.

One thing you could try is answering questions which your customers are asking and have pages with the questions being the sole content of the page.

e.g. What can get traffic to my page?

Customers ask how we can get traffic to your pages. One idea would be to have page with answers to the most popular searched questions (Found by looking in Google Adwords Keyword Finder) or by starting to type a question about your product in Google and seeing what it suggests.

Then write an amazing page which gives the visitor his perfect answer, what has this achieved? They have seen your brand and they relate it back to the correct answer for their problem. (Ensuring it is the best answer!)

All of this is SEO Structured of course and therefore gets a high rank on Google and more traffic comes your way which Google will notice and also perhaps deter-main your a guru in your field.

This then has a knock on effect to your product pages and get them high ranking too. Of course inter linking between the pages is good too!

Miss Thumann,

My rule of thumb is to deem all content not to be yours, read up on your subject from more than one site and then write your own informed content.

I work for a large Industrial Products and Services Company and often carry out spot checks on content which doesn't rank highly on Google. I then send emails to anyone stealing our technical content and ask them politely to take the content down as we own the intellectual property rights to the articles. If nothing happens I send an email to our Intellectual property rights company who then proceed to get the domain withdrawn until the changes have been made.

In the eyes of Google new content is good content and it's clever algorithms can soon tell a clone page. Google doesn't care if it's public or not it cares if it's duplicate.

I hope this helps in some way.

canonical links is what you need, so that duplicate pages link to the most relevant page.

I'm afraid I'm no Woocommerce expert, but if it's worth it's weight in salt it will have canonical link capability.

A less important duplicate page should have the following in the header of the page to promote the more relevant page.

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.website.com/most-relevant-product" />

What this will do is promote your one page in Google and the like above the others which may not even get listed.

What it does mean is you will be seen above other sites. I dare say that the number of canonical links will add to your importance saying to google not only do I have this great page but lots of others which point to it, but I only want to take up your resource listing one.

Long complex URL will kill your site if they aren't relevant. Try to keep them as small and relevant to the content as possible.

For instance:

http://www.website.com/This-is-a-story-all-about-dragons-written-in-english-by-dave-nash/1sdfg/34  is terrible

http://www.website.com/Stories-About-Dragons would be much better. Dave Nash isn't known as an author and because your search would more than likely be localised English would be the default, and some systems add codes onto the end or middle of the url, middle is the worst!

As for Title this is what appears in the code as <title>Stories About Dragons</title> most good CMS systems will allow a different Meta Page Title than a Page Title which is usually encapsulated within a H1 tag.

Therefore the URL

http://www.website.com/Stories-About-Dragons (Note Google doesn't like spaces in URLS)

could have a meta title of <title>Stories About Dragons</title>

and a page title of

This is a story all about Dragons

This is not the full answer, but I'm guessing that the explanation you've already given may have some weight. But also Google doesn't use one database and they can often be out of sync. I've had examples where I say something is #1 anonymously and my boss checks in London and he says it's #2. I then check again and it's moved to #2.

Great to see if there is a more definitive answer on this subject.

Submit XML Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools for the new domain.

All old URL's need to be setup as 301 Permanent Redirects not just a re-direct.

Do a search for the old URL on other sites on Google and ask the owners of the sites to change links.

Hi We went from WYKO to ERIKS in 2008.

I created a new site with the new company name and had a banner pointing to the new company name on the homepage of the website for months before the big switch over.

I then began the task of re-pointing all of my pages to the new website using 301 redirect, the content was identical to start off with so that the task was easy http://www.wyko.co.uk/bearings was the same as http://www.eriks.co.uk/bearings

Then marketing made any changes to the new website pages only. (never changing the URL!) This could have been a re-direct to a relevant page. Any content which was no longer relevant also had a redirect setup to the homepage to ensure no old links where broken.

Something else I did which may or may not be a possibility, I created a History Page which contains names of all of our acquisitions and old company names, this way Google picks these up and when people still type in "WYKO" of "WYKO Industrial Services" they still find ERIKS. Old habits die hard we still get allot of traffic from the old company name.

Something else I would consider is getting websites to change the domain listing they may have. We still have allot of sites linking to www.wyko.co.uk today, whilst they 301 Permanent Re-Direct it's much better to get the Google Juice with a direct link, so get those emails sent out.

3 months later the traffic on the new site was greater than the old site and that's when the old domain was redirected and is still in place today,

Good Luck

Dave

I'm using a tool called GSiteCrawler at the moment, I'm new to it, however it will list all crawlable pages and create a sitemap.xml for you too!

Hi,

I think if you look into the duplicate titles problem you may find that it's nothing to do with your brand being in the title, it may be that your domain is being seen with and without the WWW as 2 separate pages.

You will need to make a descision wether to go with www or not.

A simple redirect on one to the other should fix this.

Regards

301 Redirect, so that the old URL disappears from existence.

Google will still love you as you have fixed a duplication error, the URL on Pinterest will still be valid because it resolves to 301 not 404 and everyone will start seeing the new page instead of the old and so are less likely to Pinterest the old page.

Hi,

Install the Moz Toolbar (Chrome Extension) this is a great indicator for the structure of your website.

The <title>for instance is too long and not to the point. The alt text behind your images is a little vague.</p> <p>15 second load time needs obliterating! Mine loads in 2 seconds when it's slow! avg 1.3 seconds.</p> <p>The homepage is returning a 403 Error too! WOW that's not good Forbidden! This could be some external code which cannot load. That would kick you right off the top!</p> <p>Then think about implementing Schema, backed by Google, Yahoo, Bing and Yandex!</p> <p>I hope this goes someway to helping you Good Luck.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dave</p> <p> </p> <p> </p></title>

SEO Experts should only have one client in an industry sector.

Unless the client is focused in one Geo location, when you may want to allow 2 or more.

For instance if I search Hotel in Chesterfield, it would be OK to work with a client site to make them #1 in Chesterfield for the search term "Chesterfield Hotels"

However if it's a term like "Spa Hotels" then they may want to be #1 in the UK or even the world.

It all depends on their requirements, however as Matthew says you don't want to be conflicting interests.

Hi Erin,

I have a similar problem with HubSpot they have Page Titles all the same which we an only set once for Blog Topics. So all the Blog Topics are "Know-How Makes the Difference" (Marketing!).

Hubspot then set each Topic page's canonical link to point to the main blog page, however Moz picks up that all of the topic pages have duplicate titles.

Does this effect ranking in any way? and is it right that Moz points this out since the canonical link is set?

Any clarity here would be much appreciated.

Dave

How many pages do you have on the site, also how many URL's are duplicate content i.e.

• www.eriks.co.uk/
• www.eriks.co.uk
• www.eriks.co.uk/index.aspx
• eriks.co.uk
• eriks.co.uk/
• eriks.co.uk/index..aspx

All go to the same page, however the URL should be just www.eriks.co.uk in my case. It may be that your linking to the same pages in diffferent ways, you may need to check that

Usually this is where someone has paid for back links and yes they can destroy your site rather than make it better.Try to build up site links manually.

Use the command links:www.nile-cruises-4u.co.uk to dig them all out of Google. This may then be a manual task of getting them removed from the sites.

Good Luck

William,

Welcome to the world of SEO, it's a journey which switches paths and takes you down dark alleys!

What are you trying to accomplish? The main rules of SEO

Domain, Structure of Site & URLs, W3C, Unique Content, Relevant Content, Easy to Read Content, Direct Content, New Content and More Content.

Lack of Errors, Monitoring, Analysis, Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Still up for it? Good luck, let me know if I can help.

Under No Circumstances do I see this to be something you should do. I often advise clients to get any link which isn't giving value to the user off the site ASAP.

Often that includes "Site created by ..." Lowest of the low I'm afraid.

So that's a No from me!