Recently I moved a couple of Joomla sites over to new domains using 301 redirects. This has confused Google a bit, and both the new site and the old site are ranking for the targeted keywords.
I’ve already done the normal things required to make this type of move work properly: set up a proper 301 redirect for all pages and notify Google Webmaster Tools of the “change of address”, etc.
But thing thing I didn’t do right away was to add canonical meta tags to my pages.
The easiest way to add canonical meta tags to all the pages of your Joomla site is to use the Auto Canonical URL plugin. It’s free. Just install it and enable it on a module that is displayed on your site (it won’t “display”, but it will work).
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