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Hi Tom Many thanks for the quick reply, it's much appreciated. All very clear, thank you! Cheers Richard

Hi Richard, It sounds like the best way to answer your question would be to use an example and think about it from a user point of view. Let's say you own a hotel site with the following URL structure: www.example.com/hotels/london  - (in your case this would be your www.example.com/venue/paris page) If I was a user and I now want to see all hotels, it would make sense that the page www.example.com/hotels/ would show me that. If it doesn't and I get redirected to a less important page I would find that strange. Forgetting Google for a minute it's also not good to put users through an internal redirect as it's slower and if users see the URL change it can confuse them. To summarize, I would remove the 301 redirect and create a category page as it's better for your users and can have a chance of ranking for a category keyword. I hope this helps, Craig

Thank you Peter, very clear information All the best! Richard

No Problem Richard - Glad I could help - as you say two sites is twice the work to manage and market so it dilutes your effort. Good luck with your new project

Yeah, sorry, would get rid of the 1-to-1s (can't think of a work around just now). See if you can find out why they can't do it. If it is something like MX records then change those and put the 301 in normally. You could also put a meta refresh in to take customers to the new page; no real SEO value though.

Many thanks Neil All the best, Nigel

Your a star! Many thanks Mike Nigel

Hi Martijn & Matt Many thanks for your quick replies, good stuff! All the best Nigel

Hi Artaviaseo, many thanks for the quick reply. That is great! Have a good weekend Nigel

No problem my friend. You are most welcome. Best regards, Devanur Rafi.

**should do the job, checkout** http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html if you are unsure

Hi Nigel You only need to 301 one of the pages, 301 is indicating a permanent move, so in the case you outlined above, I would 301, A to B the decisions to use B was based soly off the value of the url you indicated.  If for any reason you prefer the url's not use trailing slash then use A. It also would not hurt to add a canonical tag to B To be clear here, whether you use website.com/index.php/dog/walk or website.com/index.php/dog/walk/ Does not matter as far as SEO is concerned, I would make my decision based off of which url has the highest position in Google, and be consistent with this method throughout my site. Hope that helps,

I'm not 100% sure how google treats subdomains these days, but normally i would think it would be best to use a folder within existing site to be able to profit from existing SERP.

Many thanks everybody, thats great.... All the best Richard

Hi  Ben & Robert Many thanks again. I have now found at least two more websites the big company has done this on ie ditched the original small company web pages and content for a copy of the Big company web pages content. In each case the small company sitemap.xml lists the big company pages BUT many of those are wrong URLS. I think I'll take my time on this.... Cheers Richard

Many thanks for the quick replies guys. That's a great help! All the best Richard