Duplicate stale content problem in Google Please Help

[WORDSWORTH]

Hi,

I was advised to add other domains to the hosting root path in my control panel to point them to my main URL. I now know that this was really bad advice. I have subsequently removed them from the hosting root and forwarded them to the main URL.

Trouble is, the other domains were indexed by Google and they remain as originally indexed in 2006, i.e. stale and ugly. This is causing me real headaches with optimizing my main site.

What's the easiest, least disruptive and most effective way of getting rid of these stale pages? I hoped that the pages would drop from Google's index, but it has been over 4 months now and they are still there.

Rep will be given to all that assist.

Many thanks,
Matt.

 

[Damion]

I'm not exactly sure what you have done but where you aware of this solution that may help you in achieving your goals?

 

[dan_Vt]

Damion's suggestion was a good one, go right to the source. But, how did you direct them? That can make a difference (positive or negative). 301 is a lot different from parking, as an example.

 

[WORDSWORTH]

I'm not exactly sure what you have done but where you aware of this solution that may help you in achieving your goals?

Thank you for providing this link. I should now be able to deal with the problem. Rep added

Matt

Damion's suggestion was a good one, go right to the source. But, how did you direct them? That can make a difference (positive or negative). 301 is a lot different from parking, as an example.

At the time, GoDaddy did not provide an option to select a 301 or 302 redirect when forwarding URL's. They do now though. I imagine they would be 301 redirects but I will check. Rep added for your assistance

Matt.

 

[gmtfan]

Thank you for providing this link. I should now be able to deal with the problem. Rep added

Matt

Yup, Use google webmaster tools, they just have URL removals

At the time, GoDaddy did not provide an option to select a 301 or 302 redirect when forwarding URL's. They do now though. I imagine they would be 301 redirects but I will check. Rep added for your assistance

Matt.

You don't have to Forward your URL, just host this domain in the same host (or another) then use 301 redirect by coding.

 

[WORDSWORTH]

then use 301 redirect by coding.

Please provide more information. I have little experience with coding.

Many thanks,
Matt.

 

[shockie]

http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/

 

[gmtfan]

Basically, put this code to index.php or whatever:

<?
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.yoursite.com/" );
exit(0); 
?>

If you have many pages indexed by google or get linked from or site, you may play a little more with PHP, something like 404 ERROR or Search engine friendly URL.

 

[WORDSWORTH]

http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/

Thanks for this excellent link . Rep added.

Basically, put this code to index.php or whatever:

<?
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.yoursite.com/" );
exit(0); 
?>

If you have many pages indexed by google or get linked from or site, you may play a little more with PHP, something like 404 ERROR or Search engine friendly URL.

Thanks very much . Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[dan_Vt]

At the time, GoDaddy did not provide an option to select a 301 or 302 redirect when forwarding URL's. They do now though. I imagine they would be 301 redirects but I will check. Rep added for your assistance

Matt.

Interesting, I didn't know GoDaddy offered that...