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Anyone know of a good CMS or website provider that is specialized for the Auto Sales industry?

develop WordPress websites, but the ecommerce plugins area not great for searching inventory for an Auto Dealership.

My client needs a simple solution for presenting inventory without all the whistle and bells that most auto systems try to bundle.  (our goal is to be modular/flexable and simple for the visitor and the dealership)

Our plan is to create WordPress Sites for the Brick-and-mortar locations, then link to the inventory site when visitors want to search for a particular Make / Model / Year, etc.

Open to any suggestions or referrals.

Thanks!

I have a similar issue and found this thread - if the previous url has identical content to the new url, does the redirect solve problems that might arise with duplicate content?

I'm working on a site with a parent page and two minor pages all dealing with the primary/root keyword "log siding"  -  How do I optimize all three pages without bastardization of the primary keyword?

Parent page - keyword: half-log-siding and log-siding

Child Pages (linking from the parent)  cedar-log-siding  and Pine-log-siding.

They all feature "log-siding" and grade well for that keyword (as well as their own long-tail keywords), yet I think based on my rank tracking that Google is unhappy with the multiple pages all (seemingly focused) on log-siding.

Any ideas how I can effectively target all the long-tail keywords within their respective landing pages and not draw a penalty from Google towards my parent page and the root keyword?

Thanks,

Bill

I have a situation where a site that was ASP.net has been replaced with a WordPress site.  I've performed a Open Site Explorer analysis and found that most of the old pages, ie

www.i3bus.com/ProductCategorySummary.aspx?ProductCategoryId=63

are returning a HTTP Status = NO DATA ... when followed ends up at the 404 catch-all page.

Can I code the standard 301 Redirects in the .htaccess file for these ASP URLs?

If not, I'm open to suggestions.... Thanks

Bill

Follow up question --- not sure if I understand the entire situation discussed above, but I have a situation where a site that was ASP.net has been replaced with a WordPress site.  I've performed a Open Link analysis and found that most of the old pages, ie

www.i3bus.com/ProductCategorySummary.aspx?ProductCategoryId=63

are returning a HTTP Status = NO DATA ... when followed ends up at the 404 catch-all page.

I'd like to perform 301 redirects and wondering if your solution above applies?

Thanks for any help.

Thanks for the info.

I'll dig in and see what I can find.

I'm getting access to the FTP and Host Server.

If they have a cPanel I'll look for that.  May need your help later, once I know more what I'm dealing with.

Thanks so far

not sure... this site belongs to a friend.  Can I tell from just looking at the html or do I need to access the server/host?

I was setting up a new campaign and received the following error from Roger Robot.

"We have detected that the domain www.sitename.com and the domain sitename.com both respond to web requests and do not redirect. Having two "twin" domains that both resolve forces them to battle for SERP positions, making your SEO efforts less effective. We suggest redirecting one, then entering the other here."

I know about redirecting a PAGE using 301 Redirects and how to specify the www. canonical in Google webmaster tools, but is there a "DOMAIN" redirect that I'm missing.

What would you suggest doing given the error message above.

Thanks,

Bill

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Thank you very much for the clear answer and the time it took you look at the site and write your post.

I will follow the instructions and see if things clear up.  I have this site set up on Campaign mode, so tomorrow it should get a full crawl and then we'll know if the Duplicate Page error goes away (which is the reason for this whole exercise).

Have a blessed day.

If the old pages are NOINDEX, are the old inbound links still passed on to the new page via the 301's. and is the google juice passed?  I've wanted to do exactly what you suggest, but was afraid of severing the Linking credit from those old inbounds.