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I've seen similar things happen...what I try to do is one of two things...

1. If I can, I come up with a creative(and natural) way to work both into the title and then work both variations naturally into the content. I don't tend to repeat a string of singulars and plurals in the url. I just pick whichever is the better traffic keyword.

2. If I cant come up with a way to work the singular and plural into the title, I pick whichever is the better of the two options(let's say the singular) and use that one in the title. Then I'll make sure to work the secondary term(the plural) into the content of the page. I'll try to incorporate it into an

or

tag too if it makes sense.

I've seen people saying that Google treated the singular and the plural versions of search terms the same...but I've seen evidence to the contrary in my experience.

Weird...I just checked out both in OSE. Everything seems like you did it the right way at first glance. I had a site that I was working on do something similar...only for one redirect but it was a high traffic word that we ranked well for. It sucks to say the least. It's taken about 6 weeks for the new page to start showing a page authority close to the previous page. If you don't mind me asking, why change from the .com to the .net?

Hey Rob,

Sounds awful. When you say site wide 301 redirect, is every page getting redirected to the corresponding page on the new URL? Or are all your old pages redirecting to your new domain's home page?

There was a related topic(url below) and the first response is similar to what I have seen.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/lost-all-ranking-after-site-wide-301-redirect

If that doesn't help, feel free to post the url's(old and new) and I'll take a look.

Shane

Yeah...if you're using a plugin like all in one seo or yoast, there are options in their settings that allow you to set tags and categories to no-index. That should make those duplicate content issues go away.

Yeah...if you're using a plugin like all in one seo or yoast, there are options in their settings that allow you to set tags and categories to no-index. That should make those duplicate content issues go away.