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Maybe explain to the client it's not going to rank as well without text and has less chance of getting found by searches (generally speaking...).

I get duplicate content flagging as well sometimes, I check the pages manually when it happens.

Brian, it's the same thing just a different method both 301.

No it would not cover the issues site wide only for the home page.

CMS = Content Management System (an example would be Wordpress or Drupal).

You should still do the rel="canonical" site wide (on each page).

All make sense ?

Just an idea, if you are part of the same company why don't you redirect the pages from the larger site and point them at your newly designed smaller site?

That way you won't get stung for duplicate content.

If that's not possible I would rewrite all the content from scratch, the problem with rehashing is that sometimes it's often harder, also you can write optimised SEO copy for your new site to help increase rankings and traffic

The location of the server should not matter, obviously latency will be reduced if you host the site in the country your targeting.

You can assign the target country in Google web master tools also.

Those pages are very similar so it's probably throwing the duplicate content switch in SEOmoz, you might want to ignore it in this case.

I would add some more text to those pages personally to aid with ranking, you can position the text over the images with CSS.

Your site probably has a bot running on it creating those pages, being controlled from another location online.

Do you have shell access to your server?

If you have a backup you are better off cutting your losses and restoring from your last backup.

Yes Google will flag this as duplicate content eventually, chances are one will rank and the other wont.

Unless both of the sites are on the same server and of poor quality, in which case I doubt any of them will rank well.

The only way to not get penalized would be to create unique content on each site.

Why not just integrate both of the sites and create a promotion page?

Bryan, you need to redirect the page http://www.mobilemowermedicsinc.com/index.html and point it at http://www.mobilemowermedicsinc.com

To do this create a 301 redirect using a .htaccess file.

Connect to your server and look in the root of your web server for a file called .htaccess - if it does not exist then create one (make sure it's called .htaccess).

Add the following line to the .htaccess file:

301 redirect /index.html http://www.mobilemowermedicsinc.com

This will fix the duplicate content problem on your home page.

Brian, if you 301 the example.com to www.example.com that will get rid of the duplicate URL issue server side. (this will resolve your current duplicate content issue).

Additionally I recommend you add the rel=canonical it will prevent other potential duplicate content issues that may arise and is considered good practice to implement.

The tag looks correct, note the space after the domain in quotes:

Are you using a CMS ?

The rewrite rule above is not bad practice, it will fix the issue with your URL's

However it is good practice to use the rel=canonical tag on your site additionally to prevent any other duplicate content issues.

In short the rel=canonical tag tells Google which URL you wish to use, preventing Google from thinking you have duplicate content if multiple URL's exist for the same page.

An easy way is to use RedirectMatch, example:

RedirectMatch 301 /-c-25.html http://www.domain.com/new-category

Drop the above in a .htaccess file, test it works how you expect first

I always use rel="canonical"

Personally I would do the following:

• Set rel="canonical" as Brent says below
• 301 redirect the preferred URL, so if you are using www.example.com redirect example.com, that way if anyone points links at example.com "most" of the juice will pass over (this will probably fix the issue you have posted about)
• Set the referred URL in Google web master tools

If you are using  CMS like Wordpress rel="canonical" will probably already be taken care of for your website, you can check this by viewing the source or using SEO Moz's on-page keyword optimization tool.

It depends, if it's a .com you are going to be waiting a month at least probably 2, same for a .co.uk

You can use godaddy to back register domains then as soon as the domain is available it will register it for you, I think it costs around $10 per domain.

If you have links to dead pages on your site remove them from the HTML.

301 redirects are used when you are moving pages / changing URL's.

Quite simply, is it best to allow index of category / tag pages on a Wordpress blog or no index them? My thought is Google will / might see it as duplicate content? Thanks, K

If the pages you are redirecting have links pointing at them and you 301 them to your home page, chances are your home page will rank higher and DA will increase.

Whatever plan you decide on, my advice would be to do it a few pages at a time and see what happens.

That seo engine is far too complex for my clients

Cheers Paul,

I have found Woo Rank, hmm It's a little flakey looking?

Maybe I am just too fussy

I have a lot of SEO reports to send out, SEO Moz is awesome but it's not designed for this kind of work.

I would like an automated report that does an on page optimization report on the potential client's site, finding errors etc it does not have to include fixes for each. This is just a basic report but it must look nice and be user friendly.

I have looked at Raven and it looks ok however it does not have any decent On Page Optimization reports.

I know I could crawl and then delete the campaign in SEO Moz but that is very time consuming and far from ideal.

If anyone knows of a solution please let me know