Then i m afraid that the answer to your question is yes. there is a risk of duplicate content between both sites
Posts made by wissamdandan
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RE: Optimising 2 ecommerce sites
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RE: Optimising 2 ecommerce sites
Hi Ben,
Its definitely a risk of duplicate content.
Potential fix:
the .co.uk is definitely a site that is targeting for the UK audience. and the shop.snowbusiness.com resides on a .com (obviously) so is the intent of that domain (other than b2b) is it to target the English speaking People in the world? if so i recommend, based on your current business plans and goals, to target this domain for the whole world. ie make all your currency in dollars, use href lang between the UK and the .com etc( you are providing signals to google that this website is my World website and this is only for my uk market)
Ps i see also duplication between your items and items listed on ebay. so make note of that.
Cheers
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RE: Strange Webmaster Tools Crawl Report
all link reported in the GWT is based on a crawl.( so there is either an external or internal link pointing to these.com/file.pdf)
So what i would do is fire up Screaming Frog or Xenu and do a full site crawl and check the reports. You might find some pages linking or using relative urls in the a href elements.
If you land into a situation where you have external links pointing to wrong URLS I would recommend either by contacting them or just 301 /file.pdf to /manuals/file.pdf
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RE: Multiple 301 Redirects on the same domain name
Hi Rob,
I do not recommend the second option (using htaccess) it's a worse abuse of Apache than described above as it would have to do that for every file request (gif|html|js|css|etc)
So my solution for you is to httpd.conf and RewriteMap either by using prg: map or txt: map.
my recommendation will of course be prg: map where you can query your database
For your help http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html
Cheers!
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RE: Link rel next previous VS duplicate page title
First you need to distinguish two things the SEOmoz Crawler and GoogleBot.
and there is algo in Googles algorithm that when ever they see rel prev next they will treat as a series and understands your pagination. SEOmoz Crawler dont do that.
adding page 2, 3 to the title will help you remove that warning in the dashboard.
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RE: Does the Crawl Diagnosis - Duplicate Page Content account for a canonical meta tags?
I hate to assume but I am pretty sure there is certain problem with the canonical url.
need to see the real example to provide you with right answer.
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RE: Hreflang and canonicalization
you can test it out and remove the canonical for the not fully equivalent pages ... and unfortunately there is no other solution than a canonical to fix the pages that have a fully equivalent content.
just test it out and keep a close eye on it and please do update this thread
thank u
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RE: Hreflang and canonicalization
Hi Simon
I think the implementation you did on the site is confusing and wrong.
you consolidated ur au to the .com domain without specifying which folder or subdomainis the au section is.
previously because you have the .com.au in the domain Google understood that signal that this website is relevant to au visitors. but when you consolidated to the .com you need now to TELL or HINT to Google (through Google Webmaster Tools) where the whole domain that was targeting this country went.
and HREFLANG is not about Geotargeting but about the Language.
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RE: Hreflang and canonicalization
Google has actually updated their Google webmaster help section of the hreflang and remove the reference of rel canonical because people tend to get confused and implemented incorrectly.
so my question to you are these pages informational pages? are they fully equivalent to the others ? in aus and us ?
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RE: Duplicate page content
Yes it is a common canonicalization problem
To fix this issue you need to consolidate all the version to one URL by implementing a Rel Canonical or 301 Redirect
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RE: Huge website Search Quality Team problem
did you test it by 404ing the page and move content and internal linking to a new URL? or not feasible?
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RE: Huge website Search Quality Team problem
your best bet is to go and sit on a google hangout done by John Mueller where you can take your case and explain it to him .
here is the info
https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts
he will be posting about it on monday and fridays. its a public hangout fyi
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RE: Tool to creat a good XML sitemap
here is a couple i use
- GsiteCrawler http://gsitecrawler.com/
- ScreamingFrog http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
Hope it helps
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RE: Parameters when deciding how to set up cross domain analytics?
Hi Sara,
The most important thing you need to ad the GA code is:
_setDomainName
and you reference the root domain for example
hope it helps
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RE: Should Site Search results be blocked from search engines?
Pbhatt
Think about crawl budget allocation that google gave to your website.
by blocking search pages from your robots.txt, your saving alot of budget to crawl and recrawl your important pages. and on the other hand, some instances where search pages might provide indexable URLs with Thin content and your site might be a Panda candidate.
So there is no potential you did a good job.
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RE: Google Analyitics Average Position for Queries
The position provided by SEOmoz is through a query in a unpersonalized search + using a specific tld.(.com/ca/uk)
What Google provide in the SEO reports in GA is an average of one query or multiple queries also and based on users which they may have personalized results on or off ( and this might affect your rankings )
hence the difference.
hope this helps
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RE: Training Recommendation for In House SEO
Market Motive SEO and Related Course do a pretty good job, its uniform and updated
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RE: Authorship and 50% Drop in Search Traffic
Hmmm pretty interesting.
can you go over here http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change and at the same time go to your Google Analytics and Match the day that your traffic dropped with the dates of these algo changes and see if anything matches.
awaiting your reply
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RE: Google indexing my website's Search Results pages. Should I block this?
well the simple answer for you is Google allocate a crawl budget based on multiple factors.
with your current setting the crawlers and wondering and going after these search page that add no value to the web. and losing alot of your budget on these search pages, where i would definitely direct these crawlers to crawl the content and update it whenever u add or update a page.
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RE: Mobile alternates and redirects
"Actually, if you access with a mobile device userAgent to any desktop url you are redirected to the home of the mobile web. This is the only redirect implemented about mobile and desktop versions."
any URL from the desktop will be redirected to the homepage of the mobile site? if yes then you need to fix that ..
best practice is domain.com/sample.html to m.domain.com/sample.html ... if pages dont exist yet .. leave it alone and dont add any redirects
A) dont provide any "special" treatments to G Mobi bot . let it crawl your desktop and ur mobile version.
B) the better solution is to create a mobile sitemap and submit in in GWT m.domain.com/sitemap.xml http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34648&topic=8493&ctx=topic
C) because it resides in a subdomain you will need to do additional work
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RE: Sitemaps: Alternate hreflang
Hi Mariano
A)As you mentioned Google supports up to 50,000 URLs in a Sitemap, This limit applies only to the number of URLs referenced specifically in <loc>tags.</loc>
URLs referenced as hreflang don't count towards the 50k URLs.
B) Yes try to implement the sitemaps as they are different domains.
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RE: 301 redirect visible on Google.
your implementation of the 301 is correct and everything seems good.
as you can see here
u dnt have any results for the .com one So:
probably google will always show it for this specific query (theloanengine.com) think about intent and relevancy
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RE: Convert Oganic ranking into Local Search Results
Please note that the optimal solution is you need to appear in the Map Listings AND also in the Organic listing.
not everytime someone search for a lawyer in sacremento will trigger the local map.
to increase you rankings in Google+ Local you need more citations (here or sign up with Local Citation Finder by Darren)
and increase your review count.
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RE: 302 multiple domains...
if they have links pointing to them i would definitely add them to your server then add a .htaccess to 301 redirect them to the main site
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RE: Very, very confusing behaviour with 301s. Help needed!
Two problems you are experiencing and there is a common thing happening here.
your deleting/not implementing the "old" redirects.
as you know when you redirect page A... as long as there is a website on that domain. you have to always have that redirect. there is no threshold where if you implement a 301 redirect to a page for after a year for example there is no need for it.
This is a good video i posted in the references from matt cutts.
you can concluded "in a way" a 301 redirect will never be deleted especially "when Goog start receiving mix signals about this domain"
so the solution to your problem is you need to implement these old redirect you had before
hope this helps
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RE: Video Optimization (micro data)
I would definitely use schema.org
Google and other search are trying to move from rdfa and harmonizing everything to be under schema.org
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RE: HTTP headers
It does not hurt the site directly, these headers can help you optimize your website speed by allowing the "Expires" tag to register to a future time so the browser can cache and make your site faster to load and navigate. So it depends on your niche and competitors. if all variables are equal and the only difference between the both site is speed. than you better optimize your sites speed.
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RE: 301 redirect every pages?
one single redirect means
Old page.html ----> new page.html
multiple "chain" redirect
oldpage1.html--->oldpage2.html--->oldpage3.html-->newpage.html
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RE: 301 redirect every pages?
In your pass experience,have you seen that practice causing performance issue?
one single redirect No (its negligable)
Also what would you think about that answer I have found in one of the Q&A: (4) Be careful with a massive number of 301s. I would not 301 100s of pages at once. There's some evidence Google may view this as aggressive PR sculpting and devalue those 301s. In that case, I'd 301 selectively (based on page authority and back-links) and 404 the rest.' What do you think about that?
It never happened to me, we always had multiple experience renovating sites and implementing 301 (from small to 10000 page site) and no problem.
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RE: 301 redirect every pages?
Hello Nancy,
hmmm no let me explain why
true your inner pages have no inbound links to them but do remember that you have links pointing to your homepage.
That authority you have on you homepage are passed to your inner pages, either threw navigational links or contextual.
Currently, each page you have on your site have an actual Page authority that got inherited from the your homepage
so implementing a good 301 from page to page will partially preserver this authority and of course your rankings you have right now with each page.
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RE: How long will the 301 ranking swap-over take?
My Past experience finds that rel canonical will transfer faster. than a 301
put two sites online.
Site A add rel canonical from page to page, this will help you in the transition faster.
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RE: How long will the 301 ranking swap-over take?
Hi Anthony,
Are we talking 2 different domain names?
are the content from site a to site b are the same ?
Usually crawlers when they come to your website and notice the 301 they will keep visiting your site and they will swap the urls.
If you are moving to a different domain, you might see some drop in rankings due to the new domain low authority and it takes time for the main authority to move from one domain to another.
the higher the authority of site A the higher this will be a faster transition with out any interruption in rankings..
so in a summary if you are moving from a domain to a new domain, or the new site have some changes in content, i would wait till after the holidays(if you benefit from the holidays)
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RE: Track image searches on google analytics
Here is a Google Forum thread
Please read the Implementation of the hack to provide you with all image searchs
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=7731f9d0e198f11e&hl=en
Here is the revised script to track all Google Image Search in aggregate://handle google images referrervar ref = document.referrer; if ((ref.search(/google.imgres/) != -1)) { var regex = new RegExp(".google.([^/]+)(.)"); var match = regex.exec(ref); _gaq.push( ['_setReferrerOverride', 'http://images.google.' + match[1] + unescape(match[2])], ['_addOrganic', 'images.google', 'q', true] ); } Remember that this needs to be executed above the _trackPageview.If you want to track Google Image Search by country domain modify the addOrganic like this:['_addOrganic', 'images.google' + match[1], 'q', true]
Please refer to thread if you have any questions
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RE: CNAME instead of A-record: seo problem?
If i m not mistaken #1 will apply. it will fully resolve
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RE: CNAME instead of A-record: seo problem?
Olaf,
I dont think i understood your reply,
how he asks for a domain name?
your cname will be for example abc.olaf.com
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RE: Is there a way I can track Arabic keywords on the Arabic version of Google Qatar using SEOMOZ Rank checker?
I dont think is possible using Rank Checker tool.
Either you can scrap the search results and found your rankings threw a customized script.
or you can use google docs with importXML function
=ImportXML("http://www.google.com.qa/search?hl=ar&q={KEYWORD}&num=100", "//h3[@class='r']/a/@href")
use conditional formatting or a Vlookup ..ur choise
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RE: CNAME instead of A-record: seo problem?
Am pretty sure, There will be no problems if you are using either of them.
Search engines will never know if you were using A- or a CName record.
On quick check you need to know, is to have the company make sure that the search engines are not accessible to your content on their host (duplicate). (better to use HTTP auth)
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RE: Profile pic and Google profile appearing in search results
Its the Authorship Markup .
Now bloggers and Authors can enhance their snippet by adding rel= Author to their Author page.
The image is pull out from Rands G+ Profile.
the Way implemented is adding a rel="author" to link going to his author page
July 27th, 2011 - Posted by randfish to SEOmoz Tools
and when you go to Rand Profile you will see his G+ Profile with a rel=me.
to verify that rand is the an author on SEOmoz Blog ... Rand has linked to his Blog under links
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RE: Is there a penalty for too many 301 re-directs?
There is no penalty at all . on the contrary its a best practice while renovating your site or Reconstructing URLs is to use a 301 redirect to preserve the link equity to the new destination..
I added a video for your reference.
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RE: How best to optomise a .co.uk to rank on google.com.au
IMO,
I would acquire either a .com.au domain or a .com with a subfolder targeting Australia. why ? multiple reasons:
- Results that will appear on google.com.au will show relevant sites with .com.au and .com (very rarely a .co.uk)...
- a New site dedicated to a region will let you more control over its link building, content that is oriented to AU
- and its simply difficult for a .co.uk to compete with local and .com site for the niche you are in.
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RE: Magento URL Question
Did you have the time to reads Yoast SEO guide on Magento ? he have a nice SEO extension. where all products will have www.example.com/prpduct.html (good to resolve DC)
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RE: Duplicate Page Title
Go to web-snifer.net Add http://funky-lama.com And see if the status code is 301 and redirecting to http://www.funky-lama.com I checked it now and the redirection is correct
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RE: Duplicate Page Title
If you added this RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^funky-lama.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.funky-lama.com/$1 [L,R=301]
try to added it after "RewriteEngine on"
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RE: Duplicate Page Title
I did a header check on funky-lama.com and its showing a 200 OK . So there is no redirection to the www version.
Please make sure the Code in htaccess is right.
you can paste it here so we can see where the fault is.
Thank you
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RE: Google News Sitemaps
Yes Gareth,
There is no difference.
In Google News Guidelines it mentions that you can use minimum of 3 digits identifier OR you can use a News Sitemap.
and I would highly advise to go check the technical requirements for links, multimedia and others here http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/topic.py?hl=en-GB&topic=11665
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RE: Best Joomla SEO Extensions?
Hi Damon,
I have experience with two joomla components for SEO
- SH404sef, Its commercial http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/10134
- Joomsef its Free http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/1063
The most important thing with these components, its to double check compatibility between these components and other components that you have installed. For example Joomsef might not rewrite the urls for Jevents components for example. (this is an example, might not be true)
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RE: Hiring an SEO company
There is some great UK SEOs That i do actually follow on Twitter
- David Naylor
- Rishi Lakhani
- seoptimise.com
- seogadget.co.uk
And of course distilled.co.uk
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RE: Farmer update Netherlands
iwebdevnl
The Panda/Farmer update (currently) are only for English language Sites.