: Parts of pages not indexing on Google I have a site I'm in the process of migrating and remaking from the old site at a new address: healthstart.nz The old site is still up at the old

@Murray155

What you are describing is less duplicate content and more bad content. Here is how you fix this:

Google for your sites address. site:someurlhere.com

Then you will see the index for the DC that is closest to you. You can try applying the filters to find the date range around corrections and bad content.

Once you find a page, click the "cached" to see the version google thinks exists.

Make a list of these pages (your url, not googles cached url)

Log into WMT. Click on fetch as google. Enter your URL. Click "fetch and render"

After it grabs a new copy, check it on the rendered page. Look correct? Go back to the list of fetch as google URLS that you have. CLICK SUBMIT TO INDEX. Chose to only use that URL and not crawl linked pages.

I would only submit the offending URL. 500 for single url/month vs 10 for crawl linked/month.

Rinse and repeat. You can do this 500 times per month.

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@Angela700

I'm gonna clear the confusion.

You have an old site you want to spruce up and get indexed and then you want to host it at a new address.

Your best bet is to simply issue permanent redirects from the old page to the new one. This can be done many ways. If your old server runs on apache with mod_rewrite installed, you can use .htaccess with the following contents (provided the difference between the new urls and old urls are only the domain name):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldurl.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.newurl.com/ [R=301,L]


Simply replace oldurl with the old domain name without the www and com, and replace newurl the same way with the new domain. For example, if your old domain name is example.com and your new one is example2.com, then you would use this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.example2.com/ [R=301,L]


The RewriteCond is optional if the new server does not host the old domain name, but it is mandatory if both domains are managed on the same server and you're just moving website contents from folder to folder.

As for what is displayed in google, just make sure you create an excellent title (put rich content that is between roughly 40 and 65 characters between <title> and </title> in your html). Also, add a good description thats between roughly 100 and 150 characters in your meta tag like so:

<meta name="description" content="whatever">


Of course, replace "whatever" with the content you expect search engines to display. In the tag, the content must be quoted as shown, but the search engines will remove the quotes for you when they index the page.

Just make sure you don't use keyword stuffing in the title or content or you might not get your pages indexed.

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