Can I Use Cross Domain Canonical For Duplicate Categories & Product Pages?
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I want to fix issue regarding duplicate categories & product pages on my multiple eCommerce websites.
http://www.vistastores.com/patio-umbrellas-fiberbuilt-umbrellas-llc-7gcrw-teal.html - Want to rank with this...
http://www.vistapatioumbrellas.com/patio-umbrellas-fiberbuilt-umbrellas-llc-7gcrw-teal.html - Duplicate one!
http://www.vistastores.com/patio-umbrellas - Want to rank with this...
http://www.vistapatioumbrellas.com/patio-umbrellas - Duplicate one!
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Can you give me any reference article which may help me to understand more about it.
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They weant to keep both even though they are duplicates? i would not do that.
but if they have to then i would use a canonical
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Yeah, I know that: 301 redirect is best solution for me. But, client does not want to remove old website. They want to make it live as current one. Now, we are focusing more on our main domain & want to rank with new one.
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The best is to 301 redirect, but a canonuical will transfer links to new one. so new page will rank better, old page will rank worse.
Why not 301 redirect.
A canopnical is like a 301 redirect but does not move the user to the new page.
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So, It will not work for me. I want to rank for new one. I have done lot of link building on old one for good ranking.
Now, client does not want to promote old one & want to rank with new one. That's why I was thinking for cross domain canonical.
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The credit given to the old pages will be redirected to the new pages, you will avoid any duplicate content issues, but the old pages will still exist but will low rankings
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Thanks Alan,
So, What about ranking of Vista Patio Umbrellas domain. Will Google disappear that result from search result?
I am not sure but, have idea that, Google may replace Vista Patio Umbrellas result with Vista Stores...
Is it right?
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Yes as far as google goes you can cross domain canonical, Bing Toolkit picks it up as a violation, but i have heard from somone on this group that they were told by a Bing employee that they have since changed the way the handle them, and now also allow cross domain canonicals
So the answer is yes.
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