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Hello Mr. Brett.  Thanks for taking the time to respond.

1.  I have two domains I am marketing for in adwords.  Both are the same type of business but different locations.  One is well known and the other is not.  The one that is well known I am doing the remarketing for.  I also do some social marketing for that location, but nothing else.  The lesser known location i have a pretty serious adwords campaign running with good results.

2.  The only remarketing I am doing is adwords\search.

3.  I am using google tag manager on the site, but still unable to get cross domain working.  On my site (domain1.com), its a simple widget (domain2.com) that opens up and completes the transaction then pushes them to a thank-you page (back to domain1.com).  I track all the thank-you landings, but they all show they are coming from domain2.com.

4. I am no way an expert, but I am pretty familiar with many of the technologies being deployed.

Thanks again for any help you may offer!

Doug

Hey guys.  My business consistently ranks 1-3 on SERP (google) and starting to wonder if my newly launched remarketing campaign is a waste of money.  My CTR has consistently been 10%.  However, I am unable to track actual conversions because of a cross domain\3rd party I am using.  I can see those clicks are decent Time on Site and page views.  Of course Google is telling my its capped because of budget.  What to do?  Am I competing with myself?  Would the visitors showed up anyways?

Anyone have some insight they would like to share?  I really don't wanna waste the $$ if I don't need to.

Thanks,
Doug

I know this is an old thread, but we are still having the same problem.  I finally got around to sending a note to flywheel about this problem and it came back that everything is fine.  I am not sure what to do here?  It's on a shared hosted, so I don't have console\audit log access, however Flywheel is one of the best wordpress hosting companies out there (only thing they do).

As far as accessing the robots.txt file, I can go directly to it without any problems?
https://southernil.com/robots.txt

So I wanted to answer this question if someone else has problems with URL redirecting in IIS and they don't have console level access.

I added the following to my web.config file and this took care of all my problems.

Basically it checks to see if https is being used, if not it redirects to the primary domain using https://www.domain1.com.  The second condition checks to see if it is the exact domain name.  If it is anything else, it redirects to the primary https://www.domain1.com

**This fixes HTTP to HTTPs, non-WWW to WWW, and other domain pointers to the correct one. **

<rewrite><rule name="Force canonical hostname and SSL" stopprocessing="true"><match url=".*"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAny"><add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off"><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.domain1.com$" negate="true"></add></add></conditions>
     <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.domain1.com{URL}" appendquerystring="true" redirecttype="Permanent"></action></match></rule></rewrite>

Thanks Nigel.

There are 3 domains setup and all point to the same website.  I checked with analytics and one of the domains is not even on the radar, but the other accounts for about 6% of traffic for the last year.  I think the problem is google is counting this as  duplicate content (same page, but 2 different domains to get there - i.e. domainone.com/page1, domaintwo.com/page1).

Domain one is the main one.

I am just super nervous about this as this is a real business that makes money and I do not want to screw it up.

My plan is to do the following:
1. Update to Https
2. Add rel=canonical to each page using absolutes (https://www.domainone.com/page1).
3. Add 301s using web.config file to point any request for the other domains to the primary.
4. Add 301 to non "WWW" request to point them to WWW version.
5. Update sitemap

Pray I don't make a mistake in my redirects and make the google gods mad

Hey all.  I setup some domain pointers for a client 8 years ago and now think they are hurting them.  I am afraid google thinks it duplicate content.  They are pointers so you can get to the same page using other domain names.  Is my best approach to do a 301 redirect on them?  The client is on a shared host so I have to use the web.config file.  The site is pretty small so doing it for the 10+ pages is not that big of a deal.  My question is this?  When should I drop those pointers from the website altogether?