Hi All - I need some techie help here for a real mess-up on my part. I have a website with an order form that is pointed to a secure server. For example: my website: http...www.widget-site.com and when I take orders, order page located at: https....www.so-secure.net/widget-site/orderform.html Well, one day I really messed up! On my order form, I put a link back to my home page using a relative link instead of an absolute link. The result was Google followed my relative link as follows: https....www.so-secure.net/widget-site/index.html. Even though I changed the relative link to an absolute link a few months ago, Google still had the initially spidered pages indexed under the "so-secure" domain name and has since continued to follow links, spidering almost 3000 of my pages now. Today, I discovered that I am #12 allinanchor for an important keyword, but under the https....www.so-secure.net/widget-site/ domain! So now I'm killing my own SERPS! Can anyone help me give Googlebot directions to ignore my pages under the address "https....www.so-secure.net/widget-site/"? Yikes and thanks!
Do a 301 permanent redirect from the 'wrong' page to the correct one. Also add a robot.txt file on the secure server if possible telling all bots to piss off.