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Interesting question.  I've never dealt with a problem like this, so you should probably take my advice with a grain of salt.  The issue has come up in the forum before: http://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-from-multiple-sources-cross-domain.   Matt Cutts also posted about this last year. I imagine that your clients want all of their domains to rank, and to pull in traffic, so using NOINDEX is not an option.  The simplest option would be to find a way to add some unique content to the pages - although again, at scale this might be a significant amount of work. More billable hours, that's all. So, my plan of action would be to determine if this is really an issue in terms of ranking for the client (it might not be), and if it is, use the backend of their sites to display unique content on each site.  It probably wouldn't hurt if the sites looked a little bit different from each other. Hope that helps. watch?v=Vi-wkEeOKxM

Commerce shops are hard to rank especially when they are in very competitive markets. Most of this falls back to alot of flash little substance. That may sound harsh, but let us think it through. Anybody with $100 or less and very rudimentary web building skills can make an e-commerce site. What are the search engines actually looking for? Unique content! Does this site sell, inform, or offer any information that is not available on another site? Actually only one thing, a brand. If you search here in the US for that brand this site is #1 (google.com). When you get into what people are likely searching for "e-cig", "e-cigarettes", they are lacking. My guess is because despite having a very attractive looking site, they are offering very little textual information about e-cigarettes and a lack of inbound links. I sure others may have some opinions but I hope my thoughts help, Don

My personal rule of thumb - as few redirect jumps as possible. Three main reasons: 1. User journey + Browsers - Sometimes when there are too many redirects taking place, some browsers find it difficult to follow through and would simply not load the page.  Also, even if there were only 2-3, the browser may load, but users on slower connections may find it tiresome waiting for content to load. 2. As ThompsonPaul highlights, you COULD lose some link value due to dilution through 301 redirects. 3. Multiple 301 redirects are often used by spammers and I foresee in the near future these causing a lot of ranking headaches. The older the site, the longer the chain might end up - for example, imagine you had a product at: https://domain.com/product1 Links to that page exist at domain.com/product1 The journey would be: domain.com/product1 >http://domain.com/product1 > https://domain.com/product1 Now imagine a year down the line, product 1 is discontinued and you decide to redirect https://domain.com/product1 to domain.com/product2 Imagine your journey now: domain.com/product1 >http://domain.com/product1 > https://domain.com/product1 > domain.com/product2 >http://domain.com/product2 > https://domain.com/product2 This could carry on indefinitely in the lifetime of the site... Best solution: Decide what version of the site you want to use and simply try and use only one redirect, not a chain. Periodically check for chained redirects and resolve as you go along. (I try and do this bi annually).

Hi Jason I've never had this problem yet (touch wood) but what I find works is verifying the actual business via phone or postcard, which you have done, linking the web URL in the 'Contact Us' section and then creating a Google+ button on your webpage which links to the URL that you have entered. E.g. http:www.russkellfurniture.co.uk https://plus.google.com/106174762290348981656 Sometimes it takes a couple of days for Google to recognise that they are linked, but this is the way I usually find works. If you're still struggling in a couple of days time I suggest you try https://support.google.com/places/contact/c2c_places (they are online from 2pm UK time). I've spoke to these guys a couple of times regarding issues with Google Places and Local accounts and they always sort the problem for me. Let me know if you're still having trouble! Luke Gilrane

Well explained @Jane , that's what i tried to say. But u made it simpler to understand for newbies. Good

No, attribute order is irrelevant.

That's what I suspected! Sorry then, can't help as I don't have too much experience with mention.net.