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Hello,

What are the best approaches to ranking locally. Ie a user in Dallas googles "mechanics" and local results return.

I understand Google+ local pages to be an important factor for the location based listings on maps.

What about about location specific pages on the site? Meaning if we have a page on the site talking about areas we serve in Dallas.

Other suggestions?

Everyone,

Thanks for the quick responses! Unfortunately we cannot do a 301 in this case so the rel canonical is probably going to be the option to take.

To verify what I'm reading/understanding. Although both pages are very similar sans the logo color and some verbiage, if we do the rel canonical from GoCentrix->CallRingTalk.com then CallRingTalk.com will be the preferred site for indexing?

Lastly, will having had the duplicate content for some time now have any sort of lasting effect on our potential ranking once we implement the canonicalization?

Thanks!

Hello!

We are new to SEO and have a problem we have caused ourselves. We own two domains GoCentrix.com (old domain) and CallRingTalk.com (new domain that we want to SEO). The content was updated on both domains at about the same time. Both are identical with a few exceptions. Now that we are getting into SEO we now understand this to be a big issue.

Is this a resolvable matter?

At this point what is the best approach to handle this? So far we have considered a couple of options.

1. Change the copy, but on which site? Is one flagged as the original and the other duplicate?

2. Robots.txt noindex, nofollow on the old one.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!