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I have an ecommerce website with 4 departments, that share the same categories,

For example a bicycle shop would have different products for mountain biking and road cycling, but they would both share the same 'tyres' category.

I get around this by having the department as a filter, that changes the products on show, and adds a URL parameter of ?department=1.

When this filter is applied, i have a canonical link setup to the non-filtered category. Any filter links are nofollowed.

My top menu has 4 different sections, one for each department, and links to these URLs with the department parameter already on, these links are set to allow robots to follow.

As i am actively pointing Google at these pages, and it is my main navigation, should the page they go to be noindexed? As its the canonical i want to rank.

Hopefully this makes sense.

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I have two websites, eg:

widgets.com - sells expensive widgets as gifts

everydaywidgets.com - sells cheap widgets for everyday use.

I would like to combine them both under the widgets.com domain name, because its easier to run the SEO campaign for one rather than two. But i still want two different product collections, and two different sites.

widgets.com is by far the larger of the two sites so my current thought is to have that the main landing site, and have a button at the top to take the user to widgets.com/everydaywidgets where they have a similar but different site, and different products.

I can set this all up no problem with the correct 301 redirects from everydaywidgets.com, but is it SEO friendly? Does anyone know of a real world example of a business doing this?

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I am looking at moving my site from HTTP to full HTTPS, so i will 301 redirect any HTTP requests to their HTTPS counterpart.

All my pages in the Google index are HTTP, so will that 301 redirect reduce the value of the pages?

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I have a div on my website with around 500 words of unique content in, automatically when the page is first visited the div has a fixed height of 100px, showing a couple of hundred words and fading out to white, with a show more button, which when clicked, increases the height to show the full content.

My question is, does Google crawl the content in that div when it renders the page? Or disregard it? Its all in the source code.

Or worse, do they consider this cloaking or hidden content?

It is only there to make the site more useable for customers, so i don't want to get penalised for it.

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