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Thanks for the response! I checked and they are indexed. For a group of duplicate pages that have a rel canonical tag pointing to a master page, will those duplicate pages still rank if one searches the one thing that makes them unique? Such as a color, or certain product feature? I'm thinking that it makes sense to use the canonical tag but I would like those pages to continue to rank if someone searches for a particular product feature.

I've got a lot of duplicate pages, especially products, and some are new but most have been like this for a long time; up to several years. Does it makes sense to use a canonical tag pointing to one master page for each product. Each page is slightly different with a different feature and includes maybe a sentence or two that is unique but everything else is the same.

Our ecommerce company has acquired a former competitor which has similar content & largely sells the same set of products. Both domains run on the same ecommerce platform version and do well organically on an overlapping set of keywords. Currently the websites are separate instances which are hosted separately. There is no interlinking or cross branding between the sites.

Since each brand has strong equity & SEO, there are no plans to combine brands or domains.

For several reasons, it would be ideal to combine platform instances and hosting, but we are concerned about potential SEO impact of shared IP addresses.

Is it likely that moving the sites to the same IP/C-Block could have a negative SEO impact since they rank  on the same keywords. Would Google devalue one site if they were seen to be connected or owned by the same company?

I know this issue has been addressed for domains with more variance between products and content, but since there is a large overlap (but not duplicate content) between our two domains, we wanted additional insight.

Obviously there are other SEO factors when you move a site, but we are currently trying to understand this specific factor.

Thanks Community for your help!

-Amber

Sounds good. Thank you David!!

Yes, MozCon was definitely amazing. Will be coming back next year for sure.

Have a good day.

I thought all Mozcon attendees were going to get access to Moz Analytics even after the convention was over. I can't seem to find were to access it from my campaigns manager dashboard and the Analytics landing page says im on queue to get access.

I have an issue with one of my sites where the SEOMoz crawler is following some form action links.  It is my understanding that the crawler will ignore these links.  Why would it not be ignoring them in certain cases.  If you need more detail, please ask.  Thanks.