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Ok Thanks guys for the information, cheers John

I'd like to get an SEO point of view on Redirecting Level 1 Pages (ie: main pages) to Level 3. I am thinking (hoping) you may not be using the proper verbiage. If you have a link from your home page to a page within your site, whether that page is 1 level or 10 levels deep, it is referred to as a "link". A redirect happens when the target page automatically bounces you to another page. Links are a good thing for your site as they help users and crawlers locate pages quickly and easily. If a user didn't have the link, they would need to navigate from your home page to the motorcycles page, then to the bandit page, then finally to the cb600-hornet page which would take 3 clicks. The link offers the ability to get to the page in 1 click. Redirects are great when required, but they also do not pass the full amount of link juice on to the target page, so they should be avoided when possible. Is there any point adding in title and description tags for these 2 levels seems as there is no content? If the pages have no content, you should add a "noindex, follow" tag to these pages so they do not get indexed. Then there would be no need to add a title nor description tag. Of course, the best option would be to add quality content to these pages, but the choice is yours.

If both of your sites have a mixture of original and duplicated content (and also when dynamically generated urls are creating duplicate content) the surest thing to do is to declare the original source of the duplicate content using the rel=canonical tag. Now, if you are using duplicate content across domains you would use the cross domain rel canonical: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html This will prevent the .ie version showing up in the SERPS. See also this link for info on the rel canonical tag: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394 And this article on duplicate content: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

Hi Guys, thanks for the information. some valid points there, cheers.