| New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 10:05 AM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL (web address) is: http://www.ironwoodelectronics.com Description (including timeline of any changes made): New web site went live last Friday. Hi. I just created a new web site for my c |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | anonyrat | 6/24/10 10:31 AM | I have no idea if the script will help the users, the bot typically is not influenced by scripting. You are using a microsoft server, consider canonical links to point the bot at the new content. |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 11:29 AM | Do I need to put the canonical code on all the pages that are kind of duplicates? Or can I just put it on the home page? |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 11:42 AM | These pages are not exactly the same. Does that matter? Do I need to do this canonical code then? For instance, we used to have index.html and now it's index.cfm. We created a new site and so not all the same info. from the old home page is on the ne |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 11:58 AM | I just thought of something else too. I have template pages that I created using Dreamweaver that controls more than 1 page. For instance, the main_layout.cfm page is a template for the home page here: http://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/index.cfm and |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | anonyrat | 6/24/10 11:59 AM | When content is duplicate / similar the canonical link will point the bot at the page you would prefer as the authoritative page. Any page which you do not help persuade the choice, the bot will decide (and consider one of them as duplication). If t |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | anonyrat | 6/24/10 12:03 PM | Two head tags on a page does not work. |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 12:23 PM | How do I put the canonical code or meta tags into the head tags if they are on the template pages then? When I open the index.cfm page, the head tags are locked and I cannot add anything to them because they are part of the template page. Or should I |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 2:20 PM | I did figure out how to add the canonical code and meta tags to my pages. Do I put the canonical code only on my old pages and direct the bot to the new pages with the canonical code? |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | anonyrat | 6/24/10 3:28 PM | That would work, anything helps. |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | gassmann56560 | 6/24/10 3:32 PM | Do we need to add meta tags such as the description and keywords to our pages anymore? Or does Google not look at meta tags anymore? Are they irrelevant? If not, do they help to get us listed higher at all or not? |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | anonyrat | 6/24/10 5:13 PM | Described in many other posts here on the forum and in the help articles, try searching for each as a topic. The only one that appears to be obviously archaic is the keyword meta tag. |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | opt_golfer | 6/24/10 5:38 PM | |
| Re: New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages | JohnMu | 6/25/10 5:19 AM | Hi gassmann56560 and welcome to the forum! I would strongly recommend not using meta refresh-type or JavaScript redirects like that if you have changed your URLs. Instead of using those kinds of redirects, try to have your server do a normal 301 red |