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Just a quick note: these forums are indexed by Google, so you'll want to make sure it's OK with your client to be posting their site here.

I'd opt for the single site, both of the duplicate content issues and for your sanity. You'll have one site to maintain instead of two, one site to build links to, only one entry instead of two if something changes for a card, one place to make price changes, etc.

Hello Salman,

Moz staff does not step in to delete questions unless there has been obvious spam or someone's privacy has been violated. Deleting a question is unfair to everyone who volunteered their time to write an answer, only to have their work (and moz points) removed.

It's best to be cautious and only say as much as you are comfortable with saying in the first place.

Sorry for the delay in responding. The holidays caught up with me! I'm not sure why OSE would still include those links so long after the site was taken down. Could you email help@moz.com and give our help team the details, so we can investigate and see if there's a bug?

Thanks!

I'm searching for that anchor text with a site:sexualproblems.net, and once the site comes up (it takes a while), I'm not seeing that anchor text on the site itself, though Google did see it at one point. I wonder if their site got hacked?

Travis, it'd be great if you told us which tool you used. Thanks!

In cases like this, it may be advisable to go ahead and pay a professional for an audit/evaluation of the site. This is the type of thing that takes some time to examine, especially with so many moving parts. Q&A is great for some questions, but some of the larger ones like this (especially with a foreign language and different version of Google) are better suited to someone who can spend a few hours devoted to your site and your competitors and figure out what is happening and give you some advice as to the next steps.

Hi Conor,

Welcome to the Q&A forum! Since this is an old topic, it may not get too much visibility. You may want to start a new question in its own thread.

If you don't want the second page showing at all, exclude it in robots.txt.

Are the URLs gone? Or you just don't want them to be indexed? It's better to set things up in Wordpress (if that's your CMS) to not index tags and categories than to go and tell GWT to remove them.

If you nofollow a link, the PR just evaporates. Google changed this in 2008 or before, according to Matt Cutt's post at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/.

This type of structure also fits in nicely with your analytics package. You can look at all the visits to /toyota/ to see how popular that is compared with all the visits to /ford/, for example.

What happens when you go into GWT and fetch fancydiamonds.net as googlebot? Is there some reason that perhaps googlebot isn't seeing the redirects correctly?

It's not a penalty as much as it is Google doesn't want to show searchers lots of identical content in the results, and just won't show what they consider duplicate.

Do you mean that you have a blog on your site, and on wordpress.com? Is there a reason for having both? Perhaps we could help you figure out a better overall solution.

Upload the file with all of your backlinks you want disavowed, including the old links.

Is there a reason the panoramic images would need anything different than regular images?

Someone also asked about this a year ago at http://moz.com/community/q/spam-link-links-from-linguee, if you want a few more opinions, or want to contact anyone to see how it ended up for them.

I would personally vote for having the pages live and either not being able to place an order (with a message), or have them be able to place an order but have a message saying things will be delayed. Totally depending on your client's type of business and customers, they could also do an email or blog post or note on their home page warning people in advance of the downtime.

My husband runs a small business, and many things are custom-manufactured by us. It's a small, niche industry, and many of the people know each other. There are only a handful of forums devoted to the hobby. We had a period where we were effectively shut down for a couple of months, due to a fire at the location we were using, followed by moving. We did a blog post on our site, and then posted on all the forums letting people know what was up and that orders would be delayed. I did take the shopping cart icons off the site at that point so that people couldn't order. Thankfully, people were fairly understanding.

We'll also be posting more info about this on the Moz blog later this month.

Google is getting much better at reading javascript, however.

I'll let Miriam respond as to the effectiveness, as I don't have as much data about that. I was more giving my thoughts as a user and what I come across, especially having lived in the SF area and having seen lots of sites like that.