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aschneid
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Posted: 01/29/2008 06:41 pm
Google traffic is dropping off to my companies primary web site (www.abc.com) due to some confusion with another site we have (www.def.com). Crows.com redirects to a page on risiinfo.com and has been this way for a number of months.
About 2 weeks ago, we noticed a drop off in traffic and after some research we noticed that link:def.com and link:crows.com are matching. In addition, we are also noticing that cache:www.abc.com is matching crows.com.
Would the following apache configuration create this type of confusion - if so - how would you recommend we now change it?
<VirtualHost>
....
ServerName www.abc.com
ServerAlias www.def.com def.com
...
HostNameLookups off
RedirectMatch permanent /.* [link]
</VirtualHost>
Thanks for any assistance
[ Message was edited by: aschneid 01/31/2008 06:55 am ]
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 01/30/2008 04:49 am
What is there to confuse?
One redirects to the other, so now they are classed as "related", and the backlink and cache data has been merged to reflect that.
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aschneid
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Posted: 01/30/2008 05:55 am
Any configuration recommendations on how I can avoid them being treated them same? My apache configuration skills are a bit limited and I would simply like these 2 sites treated distinctly.
All I'm looking to achieve here is to have one site stand on it's own - risiinfo.com and another simply redirect to a section within the master site.
I certainly don't want the two to be view identically.
Thanks again for your assistance
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Quadrille
Joined: Nov 15, 2000
# Posts: 1064
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Posted: 01/30/2008 06:09 am
As G1 has explained, you have chosen to make both sites appear to be one - Google isn't confusing anything.
If you want the two sites to be treated as two sites, then YOU must treat them as two sites.
Currently, Google is doing exactly as a human being ... it is following your redirection. If you do not wish Google to be redirected, then remove the redirection.
Your choice!
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g1smd
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Posted: 01/30/2008 06:33 am
The redirect says "there is no site here; it is over there".
What were you expecting to happen by using a redirect?
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Hampstead
Joined: Feb 20, 2001
# Posts: 1996
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Posted: 01/30/2008 06:46 am
I see why you have done this. Your crows website had 15 pages indexed in Google which would bring in traffic relevant to the reports you are selling on the other site.
The redirect tells Google to scrub the pages from that site and to use the site in the redirect.
A better way to have done this would have been to leave the crows site intact and then have clickable links to the other site.
That way you would have retained the visitors to the crow site and added to the deep link ratio of the redirected site and most likely improved the ranking for the very product you are wishing to sell.
It's not too late to do this but Google will take some time to sort itself out and re-index both sites.
One thing you must also look out for is duplicate content penalties. The page you are linking to must have distinctly unique content.
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