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    • DarwinChinaSEO
      DarwinChinaSEO last edited by

      hi guys, a question please. if site:112.65.247.14 , you can see google index our website IP address, this could duplicate with our darwinmarketing.com content pages. i am not quite sure why google index my IP pages while index domain pages, i understand this could because of backlink, internal link and etc, but i don't see obvious issues there, also i have submit request to google team to remove ip address index, but seems no luck. Please do you have any other suggestion on this? i was trying to do change of address setting in Google Webmaster Tools, but didn't allow as it said "Restricted to root level domains only", any ideas? Thank you!

      boson

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      • DarwinChinaSEO
        DarwinChinaSEO @DarwinChinaSEO last edited by

        thanks Roger, yes I did submit sitemap and i agree that is TIME Length issue.

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        • greghard
          greghard @DarwinChinaSEO last edited by

          That's normal. I'd strongly suggest implementing a 301 in this case, as others have suggested.

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          • BlinkWeb
            BlinkWeb @DarwinChinaSEO last edited by

            That is normal i think. You have to fix this. It is a dup content nightmare. It wouldn't hurt to add rel canonical also although it shouldn't matter if you 301.

            Google will eventually stop crawling the IP urls once they realize the correct URL.

            Did you submit a sitemap too?

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            • DarwinChinaSEO
              DarwinChinaSEO @saibose last edited by

              thanks, saibose, i tried 301 before, but i found a problem that log showed Googlebot receive 2 times http response on the same page, 1st is 301, then 200, eg:

              www.darwinmarketing.com/seo/    http code: 301
              www.darwinmarketing.com/seo/    http code: 200

              then I think this is not good, as each page google crawled produce 2 http response and seemed crawl quantity reduced, then i gave up 301 redirection.

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              • saibose
                saibose last edited by

                Google removal requests take a while to get answered (considering the volumes they have to handle). Its best to wait out for sometime. In the meatime, you could add a 301 to your IP to your root domain name from your .htaccess file.

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