Why is Coyscape showing content duplication error even after implementing 301 redirect ?

KDKini

We are maintaining the corporate website of one of our prestigious clients "FineTech Toolings" (http://www.finetechtoolings.in). Recently I had raised a question regarding "2 websites running paralley in 2 diferent domains, i.e. 1 organisation having 2 different websites on 2 different domains". Recently my domain changed from http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in to http://www.finetechtoolings.in via 301 redirect, but still I am facing content duplication issue as per Copyscape. Hence I am having a small doubt regarding the same. Please note the following question very carefully and provide me the exact problem and the solution for the same:

Even though I have implemented 301 redirect (http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in is redirected to http://www.finetechtoolings.in), which is completely ok as per the SEO rules, why is copyscape still showing that duplicate content exists in the former website?

I think I am clear enough with my question.

BlueprintMarketing

Was the change to the 301 redirects made and copyscape still provided that error?

BlueprintMarketing

okay you are still dealing with 302 redirects because you are using a old Windows server . & non Windows server move the redirects to the new server

copying paste the URL http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/featured-products below into the tool below

http://www.ragepank.com/redirect-check/

I know you're running Windows because of this your header

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/headers/test.php

I tried this tool as well

http://99webtools.com/url_redirect_checker.php#

I know you are using Joomla! and I do not know what you are using before so I would redirect page to page for the entire site.

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

http://99webtools.com/blog/htaccess-redirect-entire-site-to-new-domain/

or if your host Is managed or has 301's

https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1889/How+do+I+use+the+Redirect+Domains+tool%3F

your new server may not be the best setup either.

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.finetechtoolings.in

https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/204.11.58.237/information/

In Apache .htaccess - not Windows, Cold Fusion etc

It is normal practice to have domains linked and accessed via the www version. However, if you prefer the non www version, just reverse the following:

To redirect all traffic from http://finetechtoolings.co.in to http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in (and also redirect all other domains parked into the same webspace)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.finetechtoolings.co.in
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/$1 [R=301,L]

To redirect http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/index.html tohttp://www.finetechtoolings.co.in. Change to .htm or .shtml depending on your requirementsand http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/index.php tohttp://www.finetechtoolings.co.in

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/$1 [R=301,L]

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Cache-Control: max-age=900
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html
Location: http://www.finetechtoolings.in/featured-products
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:16:39 GMT
Age: 1
Connection: keep-alive

http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in/featured-products

302 Found

/featured-products

301 Moved Permanently

http://www.finetechtoolings.in/featured-products

200 OK

SEO friendly way

Another way to redirect is page by page. Following rule redirects each page on old domain to same page on new domain (eg: http://olddomain.com/page.html to http://newdomain.com/page.html).

This is the best way also recommended by Google

| 12 | RewriteEngine on``RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] |

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KDKini

Hi Thomas Zickell,

I would like to thank you for taking your valuable time to provide your insightful response.

Basis the points that you have mentioned, I just want to let you know that I haven't implemented the 301 redirect through '.htaccess' file, but I have done the same from the backend of the domain www.finetechtoolings.co.in (in my case it's Godaddy) and then I have changed my entire domain i.e. http://www.finetechtoolings.co.in to http://www.finetechtoolings.in in the hosting space.

I believe from the backend once the 301 redirect is implemented to the domain itself, it would also get applied for all the inside pages of the website. Right? Will that be enough or do I have to manually set the 301 redirect rule from the '.htaccess' file as well? Please help me clear my doubt.

Thanks in advance.

BlueprintMarketing

Google will have to index your entire site and update their side of it.

So all of the URLs in your website will have to be indexed and updated.

there is nothing wrong with copy scape if you go to Google and type in site:finetechtoolings.co.in You will see in Google's index cached there are two PDFs on the www. along with 22 other URLs still in Google's index

you will see 22 indexed pages this is not the end of the world Google simply has to catch-up to your 301. Did you 301 redirect every page?

I hope this helps,

Tom

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