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"I'm not sure what my actual urls should look like and what the canonical should be set to." - Your "actual" URLs and your canonicals should both be the #! version. In your example, I'm guessing that'd be "http:app.tikimaster.com#!v=1", as opposed to "http:app.tikimaster.com?escaped_fragment=v=1". The canonicals (and other directives) need to be placed on the ?escaped_fragment= version, because that's the only version Google will crawl. "how I should be setting up my meta information for Google so 1) pages are indexed timely 2) pages are indexed with the correct information." - You need to ensure that the ?escaped_fragment= version of the page contains the appropriate meta tags. Your sitemap and webmaster tools submissions should use the #! versions. This is a good resource to get started: http://seogadget.com/javascript-framework-seo/

http://www.froggysfog.com/robots.txt Does not control a separate domain name. You actually have to modify robots.txt file inside the other host name You should be able to request the URL is no index & no follow That's should take care of all these issues. dont block https or your sight will not be found. Tom

Okay I'm kind of rushing through this due to time constraints but wanted to lend some advice so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding or not complete in my thoughts.. Onwards: 1.a) Best way to control your dupe content is with canonical tags on each of the duplicated pages. Pick which site you want to come up in Google's SERPs and add a canonical tag pointing to said page from each of the three duplicated pages. In this example you seem to want the app.domain page (which I'm confused by the reasoning of..?) but whatever it may be just be sure your canonical tag points to one from all 3. 1.b) Don't worry so much about the sitemaps for any but your main domain. Especially if the other two domains are entirely canonicalled. side note: I understand the mobile site, but what's with the other two? Why aren't they just redirecting? I think I just don't get "app sites" which leads me to 2.) Loading times. THIS IS A PROBLEM. Figure for every 1 second of loading time you are losing a large chunk of your potential users. I'm not sure how/why/what you guys are up to but I can tell you if this is a website that has a loading screen then you're in trouble. Fix this. It is DEFINITELY without a doubt leading to a higher bounce/abandonment rate. Guaranteed. Hope this helps even a tiny bit. Good luck!

Thanks for your response Irving Weiss. Our webmaster made a couple of changes since this post, which I'll list at the end. First a) Prior, the robots.txt file was.. User-agent: * Robot-version: 2.0.0 Crawl-delay: 2 Request-rate: 1/4* Sitemap: http://www.888knivesrus.com/sitemap.xml Disallow: /c=/ b) No and unfortunately the edit/add button is missing from the parameters section in our account. c) not that we've found d) It dropped from 5.7 to 5 million on 1/1, and has remained there. Some updates: Our webmaster made a couple of changes yesterday to address this issue. Some of research we found said blocking the session id parameter in robots.txt file was preventing Googlebot from seeing the rel=canonical in place and it should be removed. They made an update to the robots.txt  removing it. An x-robots tags of noindex and nosnippet was also added to the pages The webaddress is www.888knivesrus.com Thanks again!

I think you're saying you have mainwebsitethatsellsstuff.com securesubdomainof.mainwebsitethatsellsstuff.com and that you want to keep the main domain, and remove the subdomain, and that it's not a case of http vs https with the URL otherwise being the same, right? You can verify a subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools and remove the entire subdomain. I've had to do this for a dev subdomain that accidentally got indexed. I was able to keep the main domain, and remove the subdomain. The key is to verify that subdomain, and leave the main domain alone, provided I'm understanding your question correctly.

As Barry's blog post title says, you're not alone with Google not always listening to your title tag. He has a post about it on Search Engine Roundtable at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. In short, it's Google, it's not you.