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Hi Leonie-Kramer, Thanks for this, I was leaning the way of canonicals, but will try out the URL parameters first as I think this provides a great way of telling google that the content is filtering for users, but thanks for the answer, will go this route if Google still see to be struggling with Duplicates.

Have you done a back link analysis of the domain to see if the previous domain owner created an unnatural back link profile that still exists? Maybe the back links from the previous owner are about terms not related to your content and it is throwing off the site categorization. Sometimes it just takes time to get back up and running after a big change like that.  I see your old site still has 2,200 pages indexed in google - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS503US504&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=site%3Aaaholidays.co.za Did you add the new site to webmaster tools and submit a sitemap?

Just a very quick look for my penny's worth: The 'Read More' links on this page http://www.zulu.org.za/archive are then being 301 redirected rather than then new URL being used on the 'Read More' also some of the archive pages do not appear have any copy in such as http://www.zulu.org.za/index.php?view_page+180295 The sitemap link in the page footer 404's The contact us in the page footer (http://www.zulu.org.za/contact-us) is redirected to http://www.zulu.org.za/archive/contact-us-F30503

Hi, I have to agree with Devanur-Rafi.  If both of the sites are serving the exact content, although Google have the power to do whatever they want, they'll most likely take the rel=canonical into consideration and display the page the tag is pointing to over the second site. So, yes it is a dream to display both site with the same content in the search result and by using the canonical tag, Google won't penalize both sites and display the preferred site. That's my 2 cents. Thank you!

Hi Martijn, Thanks for the real quick response, I thought they were fishing there, I have been reading about SEO practices for the past 2 years and haven't heard of this issue at all, but wanted to be 100% before jumping to conclusions. Thanks very much for the response I appreciate it.

Thanks for the help guys! It is sad that you still get companies out there like this one... Have a good one! Shaun