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That's what I thought. I need to find someone in the company who knows cold fusion and go through it.

Thanks for your help though. I appreciate it.

Farris

Here's a spreadsheet sample. I did what Roberto suggested. I have a column with the ready for every duplicate content URL.

The site is dynamic. That was the main problem I was facing, I'm not sure how to set the canonicals on each page without having to go into the html and copy the tag from the spreadsheet to the manually.

I added the screenshot of builtwith.com in the main question hoping it would give anyone insight as to how I would code rules to set the canonicals.

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Just to understand this better. If using a 301 redirect loses 1-10% of the link juice, wouldn't it be better to use the same url for one of them and redirect the other?

Roberto, Thank you for your answer. I just realized that I was unclear when I asked the question. I already have the link containing the canonical tag for each of the URLs ready. That is what column A already contains. I need to add that into the section of the pages in column 2,3, and 4. I'm just unsure how to do this for 1800 rows each containing the correct URL in column A, and in column 2,3, and 4 the URLs of the duplicate content pages that need the link added to the section. Check the image below to see what I mean. I appreciate the effort though Farris

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Hello,

Check this guide out. I found it to be extremely useful, it takes you step by step over the most common issues faced during a website migration.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos

Farris

Hi,

Our CMS generates a lot of duplicate content, (Different versions of every page for 3 different font sizes). There are many other reasons why we should drop this current CMS and go with something else, and we are in the process of doing that. But for now, does anyone know how would I do the following:

I've created a spreadsheet that contains the following:

Column 1: rel="canonical" tag for URL

Column 2: Duplicate Content URL # 1

Column 3: Duplicate Content URL # 2

Column 4: Duplicate Content URL # 3

I want to add the tag from column 1 into the head of every page from column 2,3, and 4.

What would be a fast way to do this considering that I have around 1800 rows.

Check the screenshot of the builtwith.com result to see more information about the website if that helps.

Farris

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Hi David,

I've asked myself that question so many times. Whatever I seem to do, the quality score just seems to be random. Google has this relatively new page explaining the quality score. Check it out, they've included more factors than before. http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2454010.

I called them last week to get a clearer idea of what could be causing a low quality score, and the support person told me (from what I understood) that the keyword itself might be causing the low score, independently of how you use it (whether you have good ad copy, landing page, etc.) Some keywords are just more specific and relevant than others and have a higher click through rate across all advertisers' accounts, not just your click through rate. So in your case, maybe one part number is more popular, and has a higher click through rate with you and all other advertisers than the others. That could possibly be the reason.

I hope this helps

An external company is redesigning our website. They have a draft version active in a folder on their website to enable us to view it (example: www.externalcompanywebsite.com/ourwebsite/). There is no permission required to view the website, anyone with the url could just go there.

I am not sure if they're using the robots.txt to block crawlers, or if they're blocking specific ip addresses.

If the engines are allowed to crawl their website and they index pages of our draft website, does that affect our website negatively in the future once we host it on our domain?