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Ryan,

You were spot on, hired a chap to do just that.  If anyone in the future is interested in the solution it was just this...

RedirectMatch 301 ^(.)/(.)/(.)/(.).id([\d]+).html$ myurl.com/vertigo/dl/product.php?p=$5

Afternoon All!

Question, I am having trouble getting my head around redirects and I am wondering if someone could help me on this....

We recently changed our website and although were using the same database, were using a different URL structure.  So for example...

Old URL siteurl.com/products/product/moredetails/merlin.id1553.html
New URL siteurl.com//vertigo/dl/product.php?p=1553

As you can see the product has the same ID number, just in a different directory.  What I'd like to happen is....

If you go too siteurl.com////.idXXXX.html then you are 301'd too siteurl.com//vertigo/do/product.php?p=XXXX

Obviously XXXX is the ID number of the product in our database.

Any thoughts?  I need help!

Thanks in advance.

Hi Linda,

Thanks for the advice, I was doing some reading of canonical URL's and your suggest does appear to be exactly what they are suggesting.  Looks like Ill have a bit of work in store for me!

Morning All,

First post, be gentle!

So I had Moz crawl our website with 2500 high priority issues of duplicate content, not good.  However if I just do a simple site:www.myurl.com in Google, I cannot see these duplicate pages....very odd.

Here is an example....
http://goo.gl/GXTE0I
http://goo.gl/dcAqdU

So the same page has a different URL, Moz brings this up as an issue, I would agree with that.  However if I google both URL's in Google, they will both bring up the same page but with the original URL of http://goo.gl/zDzI7j ...in other words, two different URL's bring up the same indexed page in Google....weird

I thought about using a wildcard in the robots.txt to disallow these duplicate pages with poor URL's....something like....

Disallow: /*display.php?product_id

However, I read various posts that it might not help our issues?  Don't want to make things worse.

On another note, my colleague paid for a "SEO service" and they just dumped 1000's of back-links to our website, of course that's come back to bite us in the behind.  Anyone have any recommendations for a good service to remove these back-links?

Thanks in advance!!