Hi everyone.
We used to use http:// www. domain-name . com (spaces are deliberate
because I want the link to be visible) on all of our marketing material
and so on. However, we now use http:// www. domainname . com (again
spaces are deliberate).
The hyphenated domain was doing better in Google for our main search
term although the new domain name is gradually working it's way up the
rankings. We have set up a 301 HTTP redirect from the old domain to the
new one but wondered if anyone here thinks I should request the
hyphenated URLs to be removed from Google's index? I suppose what I am
trying to ask is whether Google will think that the content is
duplicated because there are links to our home page in Google's index -
one for each domain?
Also, can anyone say whether it would be worth adding a list of all our
dynamic pages in our Sitemap. In other words, literally listing every
querystring combination so Google knows which pages to crawl? Some of
these may lead to a "no results found" type page so in this case, would
this be considered duplicate content by Google?
I look forward to hearing some views on these matters!
Many thanks
Max
