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Hi there - The simplest thing to do is to:

1. choose a url variant (either with or without /) and apply it consistently across the site.

2. say you choose the "without /" version. Redirect all "with /" versions to the without version.

3. make sure the rel=canonical of each page points to the variant you choose (either the with or without traling slash variant).

4. when linking to a page on your site (from a banner for example) try to link to the variant you choose, otherwise Googlebot has to follow a url redirect unnecessarily, which is an inefficient use of your crawl budget.

I hope this is clear.

Thanks!

Hi Rand, Link explorer is a great improvement! I can already see the index is larger, and the "Linking Domains by DA" is really helpful (I previously had to make this graph myself when comparing domains).

One additional thing which I would find helpful would be if it would be possible to display anchor text in a pie chart (like majestic).

Thanks a lot,

Jack

Hi there,

In my experience it can take way longer than 3 weeks. If it's correct (as the testing tool says it is) then it will show up eventually.

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Hi there,

As these pages are just lists of links, they are not particularly valuable to users. So you could simply just apply a meta no-index to the tag pages, which should solve your duplicate content warning.

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Hi!

Google often ignores Meta descriptions and includes their own one based on text on the page. https://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

In many ways this is a good thing, as the meta description will be created to match the keyword searched for (and therefore makes your result look more attractive).

As long as the content is bringing you traffic and conversions, keep the content online. Maybe you could place a popup on the old content to explain to people that you have rebranded, just so they don't get confused.

Launch a green initiative in your business, and then tell news sites about it. Environmental initiates make great news stories.

Hi there,

If you 301 redirect one version of the url to the other (whichever version matches the rest of your urls), then it should solve this duplicate content issue.

thanks!