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If you site has a high domain authority, then most likely your site is crawled by google bot everyday.  I would give it two or three days.

George, I don't think the 301 redirects are going to help you in any way, unless you have a substantial number of backlinks to the 2 extra domains. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.

Start by checking the number of indexed URL's. This can be accomplished by using the **site:yourdomainname.com **command within a Google search window. If no URL's are indexed then there is a high probability of a penalty, especially if your site used to be indexed.

Also search for your exact company name and domain name. If you no longer rank for these terms, where previously you ranked well for your own brand name, a penalty is likely.

Lastly check Google Webmaster Tools. Hope this helps.

this is a great idea. I think that the view all is most likely my best option.

thanks for your response. No the second or third pages do not bring any added benefit to a user visiting via SE. This should remove over 100 errors, so thank you.

I have a directory on my website, paginated in groups of 10. On page 2 of the results, the title tag is the same as the first page, as it is on the 3rd page and so on. This is giving me duplicate page title errors. If i use rel=canonical tags on the subsequent pages and href the first page of my results, will my duplicate page title warnings go away?

thanks.

i just read something about this actually. According to google, an impression only counts if the visitor presses enter or clicks off of the search bar or sees the results for no less than 3 full seconds. To google that counts as a search.

So "windo" could be a number of things. it could be that people typed that in and then pressed the search button or enter. Or it could mean people started typing "window" and clicked off after "windo". Or it could mean that they startted typeing "window" and before finishing they started to look at the results and stayed on the SERP for longer than 3 seconds.

hope that helps.

as far as i can see josh, the canonical URLs on your site are doing what they should be doing. I havn't looked to deep into it, but it seems like your products all refer back to product category pages, so that is the right way to use them.

page A has content about apples. page B has content about bubblegum. Canonical tag states that page B should refer to page A. What is the point of that? all link juice, all ranking potential is passed to page A, even though page B has very different content. So page A MIGHT appear in search results about bubblegum, but page B will not because it is passing all link juice and rank potential to page A about apples. People stop going to page A when looking for bubblegum because it is irrelevant, and bounce rates increase.

Dont think you need documentation to get this. If you have all pages redirecting bots via canonical urls to the SAME page, it is pointless. If you have several article about apples and point them all to page A that is a different story.

wordpress ALL THE WAY. unless its a specific or unique situation where sitefinity might be more useful (which i can't think of).

Wordpress is by far the best CMS to code/design for AND it is the most user friendly for our clients. The learning curve is much smaller on WP than on any other CMS i have used. and i have use A LOT of horrbile ones before.

i agree wit the sentiments above. Bolded keywords is said to be a best practice, but in moderation. if all the words are bolded, then the crawler must assume that no one word is more important than the next.

If you are looking for that bolded look, a simple

tag will help you achieve the same aesthetic.

hope that helps you, and good luck.

rel=canonical just passes all link juice from one page to the next, it tells bots to use the page specified in the tag to assess link value and page authority. Having canonical tags on pages that don't have any duplicate content is pointless, as it may actually stop you for ranking on keywords specific to pages not relative to the tag. I would look at it closely or ask the last SEO why they did this before removing them. But by the sounds of it, you dont really need them.

leave the breadcrumbs, set canonical urls, and remove any duplicate links. Breadcrumbs provide easy navigation for users, and are great anchor text links. I would maybe try to limit the numbers of products per page, and do some pagination with canonical urls?

hope that helps.

Either way i would redirect one of them. You could also use canonical urls to send juice back to the first page if the content is slightly different and still viable. Either way will work.

ive had the same problem before. It is only a matter of time before OSE picks up on them, but unfortunately there is nothing you can to do expedite the process.  If you are looking to build a report Google Webmaster tools or yahoo site explorer has a more complete link profile available for most websites. If you want to pull an SEOmoz report for a client though, your domain authority is derived from links that OSE gathers (from what i can tell), so you may want to explain that to your client and also show them the link profile from the sites suggested above.

Hope that helps!

have you had the same type of problem before?

Hi there, i'm having some trouble understanding why I'm still getting duplicate page title warnings on pages that have the rel=canonical attribute.

For example:

this page is the relative url

http://www.resnet.us/directory/auditor/az/89/home-energy-raters-hers-raters/1

and

http://www.resnet.us/directory/auditor/az/89/home-energy-raters-hers-raters/2

is the second page of this parsed list which is linking back to the first page using rel=canonical.

i have over 300 pages like this!! what should i do SEOmoz GURUS?

how do i remedy this problem?

is it a problem?

hey ryan, thanks for your quick response. I am looking at the crawl report for one of my campaigns in the campaign manager. It is for our client RESNET. thanks for any help. Hope this helps clarify.

Hi there,

i am trying to clean up some duplicate content issues on a website. The crawl diagnostics says that one of the pages has 8 other URLS with the same content. When i click on the number "8" to see the pages with duplicate content, i get to a page that says "no urls with duplicate content to report".

Why is this happening? How do i fix it?

where is that little button next to my crawl warnings that lets me open urls, or explore links to that url using OSE?