Ok!  Then we have that cleared

If you already are using URL rewrite there shouldn't be any duplicated content in the manner the list shows.

• But since there is a problem I would check so that you're not using a sitemap that dynamically crawls and creates these urls for the pages.

If that's not the issue:

• We then come back to doing the 301:s by using .htaccess.

/ Gustav

hi again!

After reading you follow up question I know a better solution for you

Instead of going canonical which takes much manual labor or doing 301:s since both are simply just temporary fixes for the problem and not the cure.

The best way and what I always recommend our clients is working with URL rewrite. This takes care of this problem completely, however it takes some coding to implement.

If you can handle this yourself and only need hints and guides read below:

• I assume that you use Apache server?
• If so read this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Or:

• Contact the admin for the webshop and ask them to make an URL Rewrite based on the URL structure that you would want to use
• Good structure:  root/productcategory/Product

Hope this helped you

Hi!

Good question, one I often come across

I would say this is not a real issue for you in the serp. But if you want to fix it and competition is fierce in your field you should of course do it

Step one: Look up your index at google: simply with site:"youdomain.com" and see if there are any duplicated content in the index(chance is slim)

Step two: look up your webshop cms, perhaps there is a function for redirecting dynamic pages to a static page(usually there is)

Step three: If it's not possible to do the 301:s from webshop admin use the .htaccess file and implement 301:s with the url:s you have in the list.

Other comments:

If you would like to clean up these URLs work with 301:s and decide which structure is most important.(base it on the current index)

There are several ways to do an 301: but in this case I would say the easiest way since you have the list is to go to the .htacces and put the 301 redirect list there.

This way could of course be bad for you if the duplicated pages are somehow necessary for the webshop so start to look at the webshop to make certain that you don't mess up any critical part by doing it by .htaccess.

Best regards!

/ Gustav

Ok, now I understand what you meant

I agreee, In my opinion that's not a good way to use an H1 tag.

It would still work for rankings but I would also consider it as trying to cheat google.

It's always better to look at the sentence and restructure it and make it more of a selling copy text, for example:

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/ Gustav

As long as the 301 is from your old site to the new domain I don't see any harm or reason not to do that.

Main take away: do you get better links to the new domain than the previous?

Do the new  domain name makes better sense?

Answer: If above checks out you can do it safely.

Hope I answered your question?

More info:

You say the new domain have a better name then the old? if so use the new domain, it makes the user experience better and people are more likely to remember the site and come back.

It should improve your rankings for a period of time, however the risk is high that after a while your new domain will go back to the same results, perhaps with slightly better results than before but not much.

Remember a 301 is not linkbuilding it's simply a way to tell the searchengines and browsers that your site has moved.

You always loose a little linkjuice when doing a 301.

Also check if the links to the domain is to a subpage or if they're directed to the root.

Good luck! / Gustav

Hi! to specify: Yes, the words in the H1 tag matters

Hi!

The H1 is always important, I've tried several test with the h1 and title tag to see if the correlation still works and improve rankings. In my experience it does.

As long as you don't use css to modify the h1 so that another element of the text below is actually bigger or resemble an h1 it should be fine. Don't try to fool Google by changing the appeareance of the h1 to much(use common sense), remember you can always use an H2 tag below if it makes the content better.

Remember the H1 should always be unique for the page and should not be the same on several pages.

If I understand the question correctly you would like your content to be spread to other sites through rss feeds and then be indexed there with a backlink to your site?

Number 1: there must be a reason for the other site to index and create a backlink to your site.

Number 2: these links are almost always "no follow" and therefore need to reach a very high amount of links to be of any real use for you if you want to affect the serp.

eg: You submit your site to several "ping" sites of your choosing that index certain content and then when you publish a new story these sites get pinged from your cms and a nofollow backlink is created for you on that site,

Just make certain that these sites that you ping actually has good content and have fills a puropose for the visitors.

A better way though to keep control over the material is to create an own site running wordpress where you write about your site as a blog. Just put a news section in a sidebar and put your RSS feed in there. wordpress sites are indexed extremly fast and when you own the site you can choose to use follow links in the section on the blog site.

This should lead to a faster indexing and you create backlinks that have a function and furthermore you own the site linking to you primary site.

A short summary:

RSS feeds are good to spread content and attract visitors. They're not a quick way to get backlinks.

Thanks Anthony, I was going to try that approach from the start with a small script handling these listing thorugh an xml flow that's more easily controlled when it comes to layout. It seems like handling these listings as ads is the way forward.

Thnx!

Ps.

Do you think this will help the listings to become indexed on the smaller sites as well?

.Ds

The problem is that its not common "ads" but joblistings that's running on several sites with identical format and url structure, these listings are all in an own database that we use to pull the listings from. So the thing is: I want them to be indexed since it would drive a lot of longtail traffic to the nisched sites.

I've never used Doubleclick but know how it works. If this is a problem that's possible to solve by using an ad server please let me know

Usually duplicated content is a brief to fix.

I find myself in a little predicament:

I have a network of career oriented websites in several countries. the problem is that for each country we use a "master" site that aggregates all ads working as a portal.

The smaller nisched sites have some of the same info as the "master" sites since it is relevant for that site. The "master" sites have naturally gained the index for the majority of these ads.

So the main issue is how to maintain the ads on the master sites and still make the nische sites content become indexed in a way that doesn't break Google guide lines.

I can of course fix this in various ways ranging from iframes(no index though) and bullet listing and small adjustments to the headers and titles on the content on the nisched sites, but it feels like I'm cheating if I'm going down that path.

So the question is: Have someone else stumbled upon a similar problem?

If so...? How did you fix it.