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They did come back after a couple days, I sure wish they would make up their minds. Thanks again for the responses.

For over the past month my site has received sitelinks from Google and they have been really helping out. All of a sudden this morning they are gone. We 301'ed and redirected (WBT) another one of our other sites to this one on monday. Could it be Google is just trying to figure out what we are doing? Has anyone else seen sitelinks come and go on their site without any other redirects?

I am assuming it is because of my sites combining but wanted to hear if anyone else saw sitelinks come and go on their own.

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I am moving content from one site to another and redirecting the DNS from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com/old-site. I have put the 301 in place but I wanted to make sure I have to also tell Webmaster Tools to change the old site to the new domain? We still want the old domain name to answer and redirect to www.newsite.com/old-site.

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Thanks, that is exactly what I thought. It had been a 302 for a while and I just came across it. Nobody knew exactly why they had it as a 302.

We have one of our sites that we got rid of and incorporated into our "main" site. We left a 302 redirect from the old sites URL to a landing page on the new site. It act as a branded stub page before registration.

We are currently using a 302 to redirect from www.oldsite.com -> www.newbigsite.com/old-site

Should I change this to a 301? I loose my google SERP ranking for www.oldsite.com if I do the 301 and it will be replaced by www.newbigsite.com/old-site correct?

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Just checked with our web team and they are using HTML5 Web Storage http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html

We have some list pages on our site that we would like to use a paywall for to get users to do a free registration. The first 2 times they view a "list" page (from anywhere) they see the content fine. If the user registers or logs in they can see all content.

My question is if a user hits our site and they look at 2 list pages. They leave the site and then via a google search result they find another one of our list pages. When they click on that they get to our site but the paywall pops up. Is this a problem? First Click Free documentation says that they must be able to get there on the first try.

Since we let people look at 2 lists free are we ok? Does googlebot have an issue crawling our site if we do that?

Without the paywall our conversion rate was about 1-2%.

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Well, to help the situation. I tried to use WBT to redirect and got this error message.

We couldn't verify oldsite.com. To submit a change of address, oldsite.com must be verified using the same method as www.oldsite.com. Add oldsite.com to your account and verify ownership, then try again.

I had www.oldsite.com in WBT and used it fine all the time. Is it because my DNS has already taken over and it cant find the verification file on the oldsite?

Update, I was able to add a site in WBT for oldsite.com and verify it. Then I was able to move www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com (oldsite.com is also moved to www.newsite.com)

To move a site you need both www.site.com and site.com in WBT and verified? I did not know that.

We are absorbing one of our sites into another and I want to make sure I am not missing anything. The site that is being absorbed will no longer exist as all the content has been replicated/duplicated on the main site.

About a month ago we added canonicals to all the duplicate content to point to the new site it will be a part of. That went very well and organic traffic continued to flow to those pages on the new site.

We recently (yesterday) used 301s on all the pages using mod_rewrites and redirected the domain name from the old site name to the new one.  Using mod_rewrites we redirect any other page linking to that domain to www.newsite.com?ref=oldsite.com. So far I dont see anything coming in on an unexpected link.

I still need to tell Google via Webmaster Tools that the oldsite is now on newsite.com correct?

Is there anything else I might bump into that we havent thought of?

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Thanks Andrew,  we do have a scholarship description unique for each but some are very short.  It might not be enough of a difference in text for the robot.