Hi All,

I had a product page that ranked well for a particular search and unfortunately because of my own stupidity I was displaying the same product in a "Popular Products" section of my site with a different page name but the same text and image. Well of course you know what happened; Google nuked one of the pages. I'll let you guess which one :(

So my question is: What is the best way to fix the problem? Do I nuke the new page and just let Google 404 on it? Do I 301 the new page to the old? What is the best way to handle this?

Thank you for your help.

I would suggest a 301 from the page you do not want ranked to the one that you do.

Alternately you could either:

Restrict spidering of the page you do not want ranked in your robots.txt file.
Remove the page you do not want to rank f rom your site and submit a request to Google to remove the page from its index.

best option IMO. It's done within 24 hours when the others take months.

Remove the page you do not want to rank f rom your site and submit a request to Google to remove the page from its index.

So you are saying that I should delete the page and restrict access via robots.txt and then submit a delete request and then just leave the original page as is and they will reindex it, right?

Thank you both for your replies.