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301 it to the original and noindex it. That should do the trick for both users & google.

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In this case, yes. You shouldn't have content that would be deemed as "duplicate content" by google in your sidebar if it's a sitewide one.

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Hey there. Google doesn't care you're running WP, HTML, Joomla or a standard HTML site. It cares even less if something is in the main page or in the sidebar (as long as it's not a sidebar that's common on each page). If this sidebar is on each page the proposition changes a bit Otherwise - long story short - it doesn't matter!

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Heya! A great tool to "follow" your redirects is http://wheregoes.com/ . Simply insert your url in there and see how/where/from it hops.

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Hey there,

One thing is for sure - js and css files have no value to your site's SEO. If your site is looking good and working well under the new design there's no point in worrying about this.

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Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean by that Why would you redirect them? What exactly are you looking to acieve?

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You forgot the most important thing. You're disallowing a lot of things but not allowing access in the first place.

Allow: /

add this on line 2 of your robots.txt file.

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Have you tested with some brand url's like moz for example? Perhaps it's that website's technical problem and not something relating to your own url.

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You're very welcome! Do feel free to reach out if you need any more help.

301 A 404 can be harmful.

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Hey,

Since anybody on the web could basically copy your content and post it on their own site without you knowing, I'm pretty sure that Google knows this and has something built in their algorythm. where there's a "first come first serve" kind of rule. If your content was the first one, it's pretty clear that it will be the one taken into account, since you won't be able to continuously track your content and make sure it's not being copied.

That being said - if you can tell them to change it - you probably should at least try.

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Definitely fix! If this is true than it means that some of your actual bisitors also encounter this, which means pretty poor page analytics, which can be very harmful for SaeO ofc.

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Hey.

Rand had a recent whiteboard friday about this topic which I think will answer your question back 2 front. Here's the link: https://moz.com/blog/ranking-fluctuations

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Is he using relevant anchor text kwds? If not, they might be ignored I think. not an expert thiugh, i'm curious to see what others say.

Hey there,

You always need to make sure that your pages don't try to rank for the same keyword otherwise you're basically competing against yourself. One thing you could try is dial down this keyword on your homepage to help boost your target page, or start sending more links towards the target page with the target keyword so that G knows that there's where the most valuable info is.

Also make sure that you have enough internal links from your own site telling G that this is the page where this content is best addressed.

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Have you tested with some brand url's like moz for example? Perhaps it's that website's technical problem and not something relating to your own url.

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Hi there,

You forgot the most important thing. You're disallowing a lot of things but not allowing access in the first place.

Allow: /

add this on line 2 of your robots.txt file.

Good luck

Hey Frank,

Long story short - it's never too late to hop on and compete unless you're going against something like Levi's. The thing is - at first you can target long-tailed keywords and rank really well for those, and earn a decent buck out of that until you can start growing your DA, backlinks, reputation, etc.

The way I see this - it's a question of..."will this domain get bigger at a faster rate than mine or not?". Per-se...if this domain gets 3-5-10 quality backlinks due to the quality of its content every day or two, then you probably shouldn't bother unless you have the team / skills / money needed to really come in with a bang and invest massively in your SEO.

If you think the content is average like you say - this might be worth a try.

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It's unlikely that they'll stop counting at all. I think that at least part of the value should still flow to the domain. i think it would be better if you could create a better version of those pages with good links and canonicalize the old ones.

I Wouldn't bet on that working. Why not use the exact same code in .htaccess format, or even PHP? Javascript is a coding language that is parsed after the window starts loading, it's not like PHP where it gets parsed before the load.

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