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[Jill]

Any suggestion?

Stop spamming the search engines and redirect all of the sites just to one main one?

[Marchy]

Stop spamming the search engines and redirect all of the sites just to one main one?

I am not spamming anymore Jill!

This is why I am asking for advice so I take the best clean decision possible!

[ABAR]

I am not spamming anymore Jill!

This is why I am asking for advice so I take the best clean decision possible!

I think she means instead of taking the top 3 listings. Redirect all of your pages to one single site. That way you don't confuse your customers.

[Marchy]

Absolutely, it is already in motion!

[chrishirst]

Permanent redirects will merge all the sites.

[Marchy]

Gotta a question. I am redirecting all my pages to my current website. I have pages which are the same subjects like let say "Boston gizmo" on both sites. So I am taking the content of the site that was penalized and adding it to the other (The content are different and relevant even tough the same subject) and I am redirecting the page.

Now in looking at my Google webmaster tool from the site that I am redirecting from. I saw that I had in the past another page that was on "Boston Gizmo". That page is now a 404 but has 6 good backlinks to it. It is probably a good move to redirect it also right?

[chrishirst]

Yeah why not, though how do you know they are "good" links?

[Marchy]

Yeah why not, though how do you know they are "good" links?

I checked them out. There was not a ton of them but legitimate links that were put by the different sites. Not me asking them and any other ways. I have a few pages like that so I will be careful and open them all. The webmaster tool shows all the links that point to the pages.

[qwerty]

The webmaster tool shows all the links that point to the pages.

Don't count on that. Google shows a lot more backlinks in Webmaster Tools than they do in the results of a link: query, but I don't think they even claim that the links listed in WMT are all of the links they know about, and all of the links they know about aren't necessarily all of the links.

If you want to know about all of your backlinks -- or really, about more of them, check Yahoo Site Explorer and see if it has anything WMT doesn't list, and also go through your site logs to see how people are reaching your site. It's not going to be 100% from search engines. Some will obviously be direct (either typed in or via a bookmark), but some will be from pages linking to you, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if you found that someone had clicked a link that neither Google nor Yahoo tell you is there.

[Marchy]

Good idea. I diod not have any attention on this site for more than a year so I am discovering some stuff. I think that it worth redirecting these pages if they have a some links to it.

[Marchy]

So I have redirected all the pages from the old site to my current site. I was wondering ifI should use the option of "change of address" in the webmaster tool ?

[Jill]

If the site is the same as it was before you could do that, but I'm not sure if you're supposed to do that if it's a different site. I suppose it does make sense though.

[Marchy]

I re-read the "change of address" documentation and it totally make sense. It is really there to tell Google that the "old site" became the new one.

When I redirected my index page I was a little hesitant to what page redirecting it.

would it be:
redirect 301 /index.php www.newsite.com/index.php

redirect 301 /index.php www.newsite.com/

[chrishirst]

If index.php is a default/index page, a redirect like that will create a closed loop

Use THE_REQUEST directive.

http://www.highranki...showtopic=42402

[Marchy]

Thanks Chris, I am not a programmer. Is there anyways I can check that it is properly set up?