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I'm not understanding. Is the URL Alias a canonical or a redirect? If it is canonical, then Google should not redirect but stay on the URL you've entered into the address bar. It may or may not show up in search results. The canonical is telling Google that your preference is to have only the Alias indexed but it's okay to have visitors land and stay on the original URL. Google treats it as a preference, not a directive, meaning it may or may not respect your wishes. If the alias is a redirect, then when you enter the first URL into the address bar you should be automatically redirected to the second. Only the 2nd will be indexed and show up in search results. If Google is finding those, perhaps they were indexed at one time and still haven't fallen out. I'd also check the sitemap to see if they're listed there. Hope that helps.

Hey! You can add a new one but it wouldn't make any sense as the data is still the same for the old site so you can just keep on going with this one and update a lot of stuff in there so your new site will validate better. Martijn.

So I would recommend you mod_rewrite to a SEO friendly search page for your docs results. e.g. newsites.com/resources/search/technical-documents/ and redirect to that If not possible, I would still simply redirect to the search results page. Users want to see those docs so redirecting them anywhere else will just cause them to bounce.

Hi Jenny Yes you can redirect to URLs with anchor tags, but to Gaston's point - now that you have everything on one page, they may not rank as well as before. It does depend a little on how much overlap there was across the different products to begin with. The new page might rank well for a little while, but as Google starts to take the new consolidated page into account, you may lose ranking. The root fix would be to maintain separate pages like before, it that's possible.

Your mistake is that you probably used relative URLs and not absolute ones (these are the ones like: http://www.domain.com/) So, the hreflang in sitemaps.xml for your home page should be this (please note that I put /it/ but you should put the real italian version home page, and that is valid for all URLs: <url><loc>http://www.domain.com/</loc></url> As for your second question - mixing matching and not matching URLs in the hreflang annotations - I would not suggest it.

Hi Jenny jStrong is correct. Subscript (_{) and superscript (^{) tags are not going to have any effect (positive or negative) on SEO.}}

Hi Jenni1, You are right to be concerned. Do not use the canonical tag like you have described above. I would recommend putting that content on it's own unique page. Then, pull in the content to your product pages via a an ajax request to pull that content into the tabbed area. This would make the content visible for the user but not a part of the page html for the search engines.

If you are using GWT, AdWords or AdSense they can work alongside Analytics to provide more accurate data.

Since you already released these out to the wild, I would analyze which search results pages are bringing in traffic and use that analysis to create new category pages on your site. I would certainly block the search parameter in the Webmaster tools and in robots.txt.. Most internal search results pages have little content value and the engines now look at your site as a whole and if a certain percentage of the site is low quality, the whole site will be penalized.