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Thanks for giving a summary of yesterday's G+ hangout Super informative. Frankly, I'm a little excited about this mobile update. Since it seems like desktop and mobile rankings will now begin to diverge, I imagine more tools will surface that tracks a site's mobile rankings (hint hint Moz

Hi Kingof5 - I know, it is bizarre. We inherited the new site and are now tasked with the challenge of cleaning everything up.

I don't know the background on why redirects weren't put in place but that's what I'm working toward now. Wish me luck.

Thanks for responding Andy and taking the time to share those links - I really appreciate it.

I've asked my client for access to the old site so I can take a look at GWT and see who's linking in. Then maybe I can convince him to do a 301 redirect if it has some strong backlinks. We've suggested this but he's afraid he will disappear from serp's completely.

Thanks again

My client has a "free" site he set-up years ago - www.montclairbariatricsurgery.com (We'll call this the old site) that consistently outranks his current "optimized" (new) website - http://www.njbariatricsurgery.com/

The client doesn't want to get rid of his old site, which is now a competitor, because it ranks so much better. But he's invested so much in the new site with no results.

A bit of background: We recently discovered the content on the new site was a direct copy of content on the old site. We had all copy on new site rewritten. This was back in April. The domain of the new site was changed on July 8th from www.Bariatrx.com to what you see now - www.njbariatricsurgery.com.

Any insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated!!!