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Hi Amelia, while the link you mentioned covers it all, here you go for more insights while moving a domain:

http://moz.com/webinars/domain-migrations-lessons-from-the-moz-transition

and

http://moz.com/blog/domain-migration-lessons

Hope they help.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Sorina,

I can tell you that the index dates shown by Google are accurate but is not the case with the Cache date sometimes as the date shown in the Cache and the copy shown in the cache don't match many times but the index dates are accurate. Send me a private message with the actual URLs under discussion and I will be able to comment with more clarity.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Yes, with a correctly implemented 301 re-direction mechanism in place, your new domain will get all the link love inherited from the old domain within few weeks.

Here you go for more info:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

No problem my friend. Your re-direction setup works perfectly with an HTTP header status 301. It might take anywhere from 2 to 5 weeks for you to be able to see the effect. Please keep posting the updates in here. I wish you all the very best for all your endeavors.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Dear Jonathan,

Moosa and Kane have given nice insights. Here are my two cents. No matter what, an original piece of content which is unique, fresh, relevant and link worthy, always gets great traction online and goes viral with little to no help. So all that we need is try and come up with such content. All the SEO goodies will follow it after...

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi,

I 100% agree with FedeEinhorn.

roofrackworld.com.au seems penalized somewhere around November 2013 to December 2013.

Go here: http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

Give an offline access to the tool for your Google Analytics account. Select the date range from September 2013 till date. Look for any Google update related penalty.

Please post your observations here so that we can take it from there.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi there,

While it is ok to have substantially similar content reachable from different URLs intended for different geo-located audience, taking few precautions will minimize the confusion for both the search engines and the visitors. Here is what Google has to say in this regard:

"If you have several alternate URLs targeted at users with the same language but in different locales, it's a good idea to provide a generic URL for geographically unspecified users. For example, you may have specific URLs for English speakers in Ireland (en-ie), Canada (en-ca), and Australia (en-au), but want all other English speakers to see your generic English (en) page, and everyone else to see the homepage. In this case you should specify the generic English-language (en) page for searchers in, say, the UK. You can annotate this cluster of pages using a Sitemap file or using HTML link tags like this:

For language/country selectors or auto-redirecting homepages, you should add an annotation for the hreflang value "x-default" as well:
"

For more info:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077&topic=2370587&ctx=topic

&

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages.html

Hope the above help.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Richard,

PageRank differs from page to page and it depends on the inbound links for a particular page.

So, if you see different PR for your homepage and any other page, there is nothing to worry and its not that Google treats them two different domains. Coming to your query regarding the sub-domain for your news section, please go through the discussion given below:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-subdomains-my-worst-seo-mistake-now-what-should-i-do

Good luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi, those are sitelinks and are currently automated. There is no way you can force them at Google.

Here you go for more:https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Moz does not provide backlink indexing service.

Hi Ruchi,

As Tom addressed most of your queries, I would like to say something regarding your following enquiry:
"Also please elaborate best practices(Such as IP address, Physical address, look and feel etc.) if someone wants to run same business through more than one website?"

Here, your intent and goals matter. For example, a business entity intends to occupy multiple places in the SERPs using multiple websites for the same search terms. I would never recommend this practice to anyone. If you are targeting a set of keywords or phrases, do that using one single domain and put all your SEO efforts towards building it and try to make it an authority in the niche. This should be the long term goal.

In the past, I have had clients who had an SEO strategy like the following:

1. One target keyword.
2. Multiple websites targeting the same keyword.
3. Occupy multiple places in the top 10 Google search results.

This strategy is very hard to fly these days in Google. This strategy used to be lucrative for some seasonal sale kind of businesses, who did not care about their websites once the season ended or their stock cleared, it is not at all recommended if you are here for a long-haul.

Personally, I have seen such strategies working for quite a while and then either all of them or most of those websites (pack of websites from the same business entity) being thrown out of index or penalized. Please note that some of the clients used all the tactics under the Sun to erase the traces of association among these websites and tried to make them look as if they were being operated by different business entities.

Few such traces include but not limited to:
a. same IP
b. same whois info
c. same website templates
d. design and flow similarities
e. same analytics tracking info
f. logging or accessing these websites from same geo-location, systems
g. browsing history and access patterns.

h. no cross linking etc..

Though using methods like the above can buy you sometime before the axe comes down, we should refrain ourselves from all the unethical ways or loopholes to trick search engines and their algorithms. It is one of the daily tasks of a good SEO professioinal to set the right SEO perspective to his clients. He should learn to say, 'No' to any such proposals made by the client to trick the search engines.

The recommended strategy would be:

1. One business
2. One informative and useful website
3. Rich content. By all possible means, include useful videos, pdfs and infographics.
3. Strong link profile acquired through editorial, natural, voluntary backlink, citations, ethical link building activities   using share worthy and link worthy content.
4. Strong social media presence.
5. Solid search engine presence and ranking.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Ali, my friend it seems someone is trying to do some negative SEO. First of all, by all means try and stop the guy/s from doing this. Next, try to contact the respective webmasters to have those rogue links removed. Then, use the Disavow tool in Google webmaster tools account and submit a request with proper documentation and details.

For more info about disavow: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2648487

Good luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

You are welcome my friend. A good website navigation can really help in this regard. The more easier for the Google bot to crawl your site, the better for Google to show site links in SERPs.

Wish you good luck.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

If you can then, by all means you should get a link from the homepage. This would be far more powerful back link compared links from internal pages. Higher the PR, higher the link juice passed. By the way, a back link from an internal page with PR 2 is not bad either as most of the time, your back links from an internal page would have a PR of 0.

Hi, before doing anything, I would recommend you to please wait for 2 to 3 weeks if you have not already done so. After any update, it is quite common to see a fluctuation in positions. If you have already waited for more than 3 weeks and still see heading South, the first thing (if there were no changes made to the website recently) to check would be the link profile of your website to make sure there are no spammy links in there.

The link evaluation flow chart from Bruceclay can be of great help in this regard:

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2012/06/link-removal-flowchart/

You can go ahead accordingly. Assuming that the drop in rankings is because of recent Penguin update, you will have to initiate the process of getting rid of all those bad links, document them properly and submit them to Google and request for reconsideration. Here you go for more in this regard:

http://moz.com/ugc/googles-disavow-tool-works-penalty-removal

Please go through the article as it has links to everything that you might need in this regard.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi Carla,

Thanks for stopping by and asking a question. While there are many great websites that implemented parallax scrolling, only few of them were able to strike a balance between both, SEO and UX. Please accept my sincere apology for not being able to name them here for many obvious reasons. However, let me tell you few things about your project at hand. If your website is not in to creative niches like, design (can be website design also), art, e-commerce (catalogue websites), studio etc..

1. you should be giving more emphasis to the quality of the content and its size on the homepage especially if you want to rank for any keyword /phrase using with your homepage.

2. Good content of about 600 words should be great with a keyword density of around 1% (this is excluding the keyword presence in other indexable content on the page like the meta information, heading tags, image alt text, image titles).

3. Good code to text ratio, though this is not a hard and fast rule. Personally, I like it to be around 25%.

4. Sizeable content in the first fold and this does not mean to dump all your content in the first fold.

5. Other on-page SEO factors.

If you are into the creative niche, you can lean a bit more towards the UX side.

Hope the above help and again please accept my apology if my response has not lived up to your expectation.

I wish you all the very best for your up-coming project.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi there, this is definitely not a good idea from an SEO stand point. I strongly recommend to you to have the content written uniquely for each of those pages. I have seen methods like these making websites vanish from the index as well as making websites safely pass under the Google's radar. But, we should stick to the best practices and see to it that all the pages on our websites have substantially unique content so as to find and secure their place into the SERPs. Quality content that is unique, fresh, highly relevant, interesting, link and share worthy can literally spell magic for your SEO efforts. Just my two cents my friend.

Best of luck to you,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi Mark,

Your concerns are very much true and unfortunately there is no absolute solution for this issue.However, the following might help you face and handle the issue:

1. Use Google authorship.

This will help the search engines recognize the correct or the rightful owner of the content. Here you go for more:

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html

2. Have the copyright notices published along with the content. Give clear syndication guidelines like, an attribution in the form of a link pointing to your webpage (that the content resides on) if someone wants to publish on their website.

3. You can always file DMCA complaints right from the Google webmaster tools account.

4. You can use Google Alerts to watch out for any of your content being stolen and published elsewhere.

Here you go for more in this regard:

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/find-remove-stolen-content/

Hope the above help.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi there,

Technically, with parallax scrolling, you are dealing with a single page. Ideally, from an SEO stand point, it is highly recommended to target one keyword /phrase per page. So if you are targeting one keyword with your parallax scrolling page, provided you have good content on it, then you are good. Especially after the page layout algorithm from Google, it is good to have sizeable content in the top fold. This holds good for any type of websites.

There is no doubt that with a technique like parallax scrolling you will definitely grab a lot of attention and love from your visitors, in fact this can heighten the site engagement times to a great extent. So the user experience is taken care of as long as the page serves the purpose of its visitors. So SEO is all about striking a balance between pleasing the visitors and search engines. You can take care of finicky search engine spiders by giving them what they love and that is great content with right keywords taking the right places on the page.

As far as SEO is concerned, targeting multiple keywords /phrases on a page leads to keyword dilution and we should ideally target a single keyword /phrase per page.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi,

You can try the following tool:

Llogin to your Google Analytics account and visit this URL:

http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

Give read-only access to the application and check if this website has been hit by any of the Google updates like Panda or Penguin. That's a quick way to see if you were hit by a Google penalty.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Keri got it right. With multiple websites all your SEO efforts are scattered and with all other operational overheads. Here is my take on this. One website, very stable, high and wide that will become an authority in the niche going forward. Let that one website  target all those keywords/phrases. There is really no need to come up with new keyword specific domains. There might be some level of keyword cannibalization with multiple domains targeting the same niche.

If at all you want to cross-link the domains you own, you should ideally make those links no-follow.

I conclude by saying, one big website with loads of quality content will always win over multiple small websites in many respects. Those were my two cents.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

You are most welcome Mark. At some point or the other, we all (at least people who come up with original content) would have faced the content scraping or stealing issue. Its all the part of the game. Being the rightful owners of the content, we should not leave any stone unturned while trying to protect our rights for our content. Personally, I have seen the copyright notice work well with manual content stealers but, for those who use automated tools to scrape and publish content, there is no definite method to stop them. Wish you all the very best for all your endeavors.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi there,

Its still a highly debated question whether or not if search engines like Google use WHOIS info while ranking a website. Even if you make your WHOIS info private, Google being an accredited ICANN registrar, they can access your WHOIS info.

Now coming back to the question at hand, if search engines use WHOIS info while ranking.

There was an instance in my experience where a client's websites were penalized because they had multiple domains that targeted the same set of keywords /phrases and were ranking in the first page. While the client took all the care to keep those websites look different in all possible respects  like the design, look and feel, navigation, content and even the link profiles of these domains, separate webmaster tools accounts and none of them were interlinked or cross-linked etc., the one obvious thing that was not changed was  the WHOIS info behind these domains which was same. So this incidence in particular made me believe that the search engines like Google might not leave any stone unturned in an effort to put a check on the quality of their search results and also to minimize the chance of any one individual or company trying to grab multiple positions in the first page of their results pages.

That was my experience but I would suggest you to be honest and complete while filling the WHOIS info.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Pete,

Please don't block access to foreigners. You can set the geo-target in Google webmaster tools account, if you have not already done so. It is completely normal with country-specific websites getting traffic from all over the World. A small or probably 1 in a thousand foreign visits might come from UK people traveling abroad. So to conclude, its my honest opinion not to block access to foreigners even the bounce rates might be alarming. Its common and natural and search engine like Google know about this pretty well and there won't be any issue to your website from their end.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Brad, my take on this would be to remove the site-wides, leave the link only on homepages and no-follow them. In the past and recently I have seen few instances where a web design firm left its link on the websites built by them. Later, some of those websites were never developed and left as it is with very thin content providing no value to the visitors and the Internet. In cases like these, you will be left with a low quality link pointing to your site. The other case would be what if those websites built by you will never get good content and moreover turn out to other shady businesses, you will have a big problem here too. Just not to take a chance, I would always recommend to no-follow your link on the homepages of websites that you build unless you are very sure about the credibility of the website or its owners. But as far as site-wides are concerned, big NO.NO.

Hope that help my friend

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

I would like to address the following part of your original query without even going to the article that you referred to:

"everyone seems to agree that you shouldn't canonicalize all pages in a series to the first page"

The reason for this is, if you canonicalize all the pages in a series to the first page, you are giving a hint to Google that only the first page is what you are concerned of and it should be indexed. With this, all the non-canonical pages will be taken out from the index which you would not want to happen especially when the content of these pages is unique.

So depending on your requirement you can opt for either a 'view all method' or 'rel=prev/next' method for your pagination requirements.

Good luck.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi there,

Here are my two cents in this regard. Instead of showing 10 or 15 reviews on the root domain, show no more than 2 and for more reviews you can send the visitors to the reviews sub-domain (using a 'view more reviews' button as you currently have). This will mitigate duplicate content issues to a great extent if at all any. I do not recommend blocking the sub-domain from the search engines. However, you can move the content of the sub-domain to something like a reviews sub-folder as follows:

bannerbuzz.com/reviews

From an SEO stand point, sub-folder is a safe bet compared to a sub-domain. Here is what Rand Fishkin has to say in this regard (http://www.seomoz.org/q/subdomains-vs-subfolders

_ “All the testing, research and examples I've seen in the past few years (and even the past few months) strongly suggest that the same principles still hold true._

Subdomains SOMETIMES inherit and pass link/trust/quality/ranking metrics between one another.

Subfolders ALWAYS inherit and pass link/trust/quality/ranking metrics across the same subdomain.

Thus, having a single subdomain (even just domainname.tld with no subdomain extension) with all of your content is absolutely ideal from an SEO perspective. It's also more usable and brandable, too IMO.”

Here is an interesting discussion about the same here on Moz.com:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-subdomains-my-worst-seo-mistake-now-what-should-i-do

Hope these help.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi Andrew,

The server on which your website is hosted is throwing a 500 server-side error. You better contact the hosting provider and get the issue fixed. You can use the HTTP header status checkers online like, web-sniffer.net and put the URL, http://www.interconnect.org.uk

All the other tools like W3C validator, http://builtwith.com/interconnect.org.uk etc gave the same result:

500 Internal Server Error

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, its time to check your titles and descriptions. With all respect for Yoast plugin, I would still recommend to write the page titles and descriptions manually at least for the most important pages on your website. Google changing the titles and descriptions is not new and all that we can do is try and test different titles and descriptions.

Here you go for more on this..

1. https://yoast.com/google-page-title/

2. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2342232/Why-Google-Changes-Your-Titles-in-Search-Results

3. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-title-changes-to-individual-pages-categories-tags-posts-is-not-working

and here..

4. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/K6D14caef7U

Hope they help.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, this is against Google's double serving policy. Here you go for more:

https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/2600168?hl=en

and here: www.interactually.com/blurry-lines-of-adwords-double-serving/

Hope that helps.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

No problem my friend. You are most welcome.

So if you are using 3rd party services to fill in the reviews content on the sub-domain, you can the following:

1. Stop using the sub-domain henceforth for the reviews content and use the new reviews sub-folder to get the reviews content filled in.

2. Redirect the old reviews content on the sub-domain to the new reviews sub-folder via 301.

This will make sure that you don't loose the SEO goodies that the sub-domain has acquired till date and also all (almost all) of those goodies will be passed on to the new sub-folder.

Please feel free to post any or all of your queries if you have any in this regard.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi, here you go.....

RewriteRule ^(.)/(?.)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]

Please note that the thing which looks like a capital V in the above rule is actually the backward slash and forward slash together.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, there is no added advantage or disadvantage with www in the URL. You can go either way, with or without www but be consistent throughout the website. You also set your preferred version in Google Webmaster Tools account. Make sure only one version, either www or without www returns an HTTP header status code 200 and not both. If suppose, http://www.abc.com is your preferred version, then only http://www.abc.com should return 200 and not both (http://abc.com). In this case, http://abc.com should be redirected to http://www.abc.com via a server-side 301 permanent redirection. This way, you can take care of your URL canonicalization issues.

One more thing, while doing any link building/earning activities, please make sure to use the preferred version for backlinking purposes. Please feel free to post any queries that you may have in this regard.

Good luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Dan,

Duplicate content can hurt your websites' ranking. My two cents in this regard would be to make the content on the other website unique no matter how closely related they both are. As you need both these sites to be able to rank high in search engines for their respective set of keywords/phrases, we cannot go in for "rel=canonical" implementation. Making minor changes to the content (with an intent to make the content on the new website unique) will not help to safely pass under Google's radar. So, please come up with substantially unique content for the new website.

Hope the following page from Google webmaster support will be of help to you in this case:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

It should have been something like this: RewriteRule ^(.)/(?.)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]

But no where to be seen. So no idea.

Yes, of course my friend, Google has to crawl the page to see the page-level meta robots tag but till date I have not seen any page in Google's index that has been blocked using the robots.txt file and page-level meta robots tag. Password protecting your .htaccess file would be an overkill if you just want Google not to index a page. If you want Google to remove any particular page from its index, you can get it done from webmaster tools account. Here you go for more: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

Good Luck to you my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

When we make sizeable changes to the websites, there could be some fluctuations in the traffic levels and if we don't do anything wrong, the traffic should be back to normal if not increased in couple of weeks. As you have been changing the anchor text, please be careful not to have high percentage of same anchor text. Make sure you have anchor text diversity even when dealing with internal links. 100 internal links with same anchor text pointing to a page can be frowned upon by the search engines. You can have contextual linking structure with diversified anchors texts that look natural. It is good to have a small percentage of links with generic anchors like, 'click here', 'download now' etc. Just my two cents. Hope it helps.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

I am sorry my friend. Somehow I missed your response.

It should have been: RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [R,L]

So, you missed the /

And it is also used to remove the trailing slash from URLs just like the one that I gave you earlier.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

I agree with Dennis here.

One question that you can ask yourself:

"Why should Google have two websites with substantially similar content in their index?"

So, the answer would be to come up with substantially unique content on both the websites so that both of them can pass Google's radar safely  and justify their presence in their index.

In the past, I worked with a client who had multiple websites operating in the same niche but catering to different states in the US. With almost identical content on many of them, they were not at all ranking good in the search engines overall. We had the content rewritten in such a way that all of them had unique content (please note that all these domains still operated in the same niche but with slightly different keywords/phrases based on the differences in naming conventions in different states). This worked wonders. The results exceeded all the expectations of the client. There was a dramatic increase in the total number of pages from these domains in Google's index along with a whopping increase in overall ranking for many of the competitive terms in the search engines.

With substantially unique, updated, highly relevant and useful content, you will see a healthy and steady growth in your SEO ROI. Those were my two cents my friend. Good Luck to you.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Shailendra,

Here you go for a solution right from the horse's mouth:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Hope it helps my friend.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi friend,

Yes, the code you mentioned should work the way you expect without any issues.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

Having multiple pages with similar or identical content confuses the search engines and the outcomes in SERPs will be undesirable. Here is the deal: No two unique URLs should serve substantially similar or identical content. If it is the case, you should decide the URL that you would like to rank in the search engines, make others point to it via rel=canonical attribute. In general, the page that targets the most search keyword/phrase can be made the canonical URL or the preferred URL.

If I were you, I would have added unique content to the existing pages targeting the main keyword for the page.

For example, if the page talks about, 'used cars', this would become my target term for the page:

abc.com/cars/used-cars.html

I would also go ahead with a thorough keyword research & analysis to find which keywords/phrases are being searched more in your geo-location or target market, add corresponding pages with highly targeted content for each of these keywords/phrases (if not added already).

The key here is, content that is unique, up-to-date, highly relevant and useful to the visitors. Such content would bring in dramatic improvements to your overall SEO ROI and search engines like Google love such content and these pages will be awarded good positions in the SERPs going forward. As you know, high quality content is a natural link magnet.

Here is an action plan, if I were you:

1. Make these pages unique by adding unique content

2. Do a thorough keyword research & analysis to find new content opportunities in your niche

3. Add new pages with unique content based on the outcome of step 2.

4. Update the Sitemap.xml file and submit it to webmaster tools

5. Repeat steps from 2 to 4 once in 6 months based on the results or as and when required.

Those were my two cents my friend. Good Luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Agree with Chris. You need to wait for 3 to 4 weeks. I would suggest you not to make any changes in the meanwhile. Wait and watch for the things to settle. If you do not see any improvement, you can get in to digging what actually went wrong and other SEO forensics.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, while thousands of lines in the .htaccess file is not recommended, here you go for more info about the question at hand:

http://moz.com/community/q/thousands-of-301-redirections-htaccess-alternatives

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, even if you use robots.txt file to block these pages, Google can still pick the references of these pages from third-party websites and can crawl from there. Such pages will not have the description snippet in the search results and instead will show text that reads:

A description of this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt.

So, to fully stop Google from crawling these pages, you can go in for the page-level meta robots tag along with the robots.txt method. The page-level robots meta tag complements robots.txt method.By the way, robots.txt file can definitely save you some crawl budget. I don't think you should be thinking much about crawl budget though, as long as your website is super-easy to crawl with simple text-based internal links and stuff like, super-fast servers etc.,

Those my my two cents my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Chris, I second Jarno's opinion in this regard. If it is going to be a huge overhead to add the page level blocking, you can rely on your current robots.txt setup. There is a small catch here though. Even if you block using robots.txt file, if Google finds a reference to the blocked content elsewhere on the Internet, then it would index the blocked content. In situations like this, page level content blocking is the way forward. So to fully restrict Google bot indexing your content, you should ideally be using the page level robots meta tag or x-robots-tag.

Here you go for more: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156449?hl=en

Hope it helps.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

Hi Bob,

Hope this tool will be of great help if you want to check whether the drop is because of Panda or Penguin or any other updates from Google:

http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

Please use it and post back the findings so that we can take it from there.

Best,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

While its not recommended to have duplicate content on your pages that is found else where, it is also not a good thing to de-index pages from Google. If I were you, I would have tried to beef-up these duplicate pages a little bit with unique content or at least rewritten the existing content so that it becomes unique.

Please go ahead and initiate the task of rewriting the product descriptions in phases starting with the ones that get the most traffic as per your web analytics data. Those were my two cents my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi