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Robots.txt Blocking Blog Tags?
Tags are causing duplicate content on my website and I want to make sure that I block them from being indexed. Is this the right syntax to use for blocking those Tags from being crawled?
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Does a plain vanilla site benefit from a “canonical” directive?
So I thought I knew what "canonical" was for.
As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing foo.htm and foo.htm?parameter=1 as duplicate ...
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Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages
I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages.
For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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Should rel=canonical point to page one of a set and still have rel=prev/next on the page as well?
I've got a page which displays search results and I've added rel=prev and rel=next meta tags to the page to cover the paging. However, someone is saying I should also add a rel=canonical tag to the ...
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Canonical url for filtered search results
I have a search function in my app that works like so:
example.com/united-states
example.com/united-states/california
example.com/united-states/california/san-diego
These three different searches ...
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Right canonical pages for encylopedia-style site
I have a website that contains a lot of short (150 word) descriptions of key concepts. The concepts are organised hierarchically so a description of Cheese will be a subsection under the heading "Milk ...
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Difference between canonical and base tag
I am a little bit confused regarding the usage of canonical tags and base tags.
I have placed canonical tag (rel="canonical") on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed ...
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Is it valid to have 2, 3, or more canonical tags?
I have seen a major website have more than 2 canonical tags on certain pages.
Here's the page URL:
http://www.example.com/en_GB/shop/details.cfm?R=PRODUCT23:en_GB
Here's the first canonical ...
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falling down Google ranking with canoncial tags and Google site verification
Recently I released this site live, which is a small brochure site for a local catering company.
I took the time to add a canonical <link> tag and also verify the site with Google, so the ...
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How should I handle two different routes to the same place in a website hierarchy? How will this affect SEO?
guys. I'm considering a complete overhaul of my site, and I have a dilemma. I have multiple ways of getting to the same place, i.e.:
Home > Page 1 > Page 2 > Page 3
and
Home > Page 3
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What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?
Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:
articles.php?page=18
What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?
articles.php?page=21 (page 21 is out of ...
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pagination for product listing. what to use? canonical or rel-prev-next or do nothing?
I want to make sure my product listing is 10 products per page which are not in a series.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1663744&topic=2371375&ctx=topic
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pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing
I have a module in my site which can be accessed like sitename.com/module/
This module has pagination.
In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all ...
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Should you rel=“nofollow” on links which go to non-canonical pages [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should <a> tags with href=“#” use rel=“noindex, nofollow”?
If I have a page
http://www.example.com/blog/mypost/?section=attractions
which has in it's HEAD
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How to prevent duplicate content in Google when using state and city in friendlyurl?
I want to provide friendlyurls to my visitors on my venue site.
Visitors should be able to easily type the name of a region to access the venues in that specific region.
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How to structure dynamic product browser for SEO?
I will be building a new website for a client of mine. SEO is very important.
This website will have a product browser for cars, in which visitors can set feature filters to search for products that ...
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How to resolve canonical issue of a website hosted in yahoo small business (Shared Hosting)
I have a website www.myapp.com hosted in yahoo small business, which is shared hosting and I don't have access to .htaccess file to modify. I called up yahoo team regarding the issue But It cannot be ...
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How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store
I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's ...
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Multiple URL's going to same page - Kosher for Google?
I hear conflicting answers from people about this, and I'm a developer by trade, and my SEO knowledge is not what it should be. Here's my situation:
I run a website that lists hotels, restaurants, ...
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Multilingual website URL & SEO
For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the hl query string, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
and compare the above URL with
http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
From the SEO ...
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Should I use nodindex, follow or rel canonical?
I have a site that lists offers, promotions from other websites.
Since the offers expire rather quickly I don't save them into my database. I see no point in having a page from 2010 about 30% ...
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rel=“Canonical”: Ranking Benefits ? & specifying for PDF?
I think I understand the basic case for using rel="canonical": to tell Google which is the preferred URI when the same page/content may be accessed via more than one URI.
This helps you avoid ...
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Canonical URL in blog post category post listing?
I have a set of categories that each list their own blog posts. I am afraid there might be a problem with duplicate content as the posts move down the pages.
Should these subpages include a canonical ...
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Using subdomains or directories for main categories?
I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries.
Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:
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can canonical links be used to make 'duplicate' pages unique?
We have a website that allows users to list items for sale. Think ebay - except we don't actually deal with selling the item, we just list it for sale and provide a way to contact the seller.
Anyhow, ...
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How should I fix the problem of duplicate content created by my CMS system's manual page alias feature?
My site’s CMS has a manual page alias feature which is in wide use. I recently noticed that the aliased pages and the original pages are showing up in GA with separate traffic.
For example:
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how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)
I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog.
I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes ...
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Canonical url for a home page and trailing slashes
My home page could be potentially linked as:
http://example.com
http://example.com/
http://example.com/?ref=1
http://example.com/index.html
http://example.com/index.html?ref=2
(the same page is ...
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Does URL encoding create duplicate content?
An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character :. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing : as two ...
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Preview content on website linking to full page, SEO strikes for duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?
I have a press section on a website i'm developing. It has about 10 ...
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When the canonical page itself changes url
This is a continuation of the question: How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow.
Say I have the canon url:
questions/11/car <---canonically-linked-from--- questions/11/
What ...
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Canonical links and best way to use parameters with url rewriting
I use my own custom routing module in PHP and mod_rewrite. A typical main page URL looks like this:
http://www.example.com/services
There's a large part of the website that displays the products on ...
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Canonical link to a different domain?
I've got the same page and data available on multiple sites (on different domains), but only one of those sites is really that data's "home" and I want that "home" site to show up in search results ...
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SEO and duplicate content for default document
SEO experts sometimes demand that default document, e.g. www.site.com/index.html redirects with 301 to www.site.com, so:
Is that really necessary?
Does Google really penalize that?
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How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow sites all have pretty urls which include the question title. In the HTML it also have canonical url for that page.
I just found out that when I change the question title, the url is ...
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multiple urls serving same content - how to handle better?
Urls go like
domain/approved/education/kids/female
but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this
domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on
which means ...
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Republishing blog posts on a popular website
I started my blog about programming yesterday and in order to promote and increase traffic I submitted my rss to Codeproject which pulls my posts and publishes them at Codeproject.
While it increases ...
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Should I use a canonical URL?
I'm currently in the process of building a charts website with music from Soundcloud.
The charts will be 'cleared' every week.
My base URL will be: http://example.com/
Which will contain the charts ...
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Having google index canonicals but users using parameters - correct?
I'm working on a site that has a search facility with multiple parameters that look up property listings. The possible parameters are:
City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, ...
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Canonicalization of single, small pages like reviews or product categories [closed]
In general I pretty much like the idea of canonicalization. And in most cases, Google explains possible procedures in a clear way.
For example: If I have duplicates because of parameters (eg: ...
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www and non www can suffer duplicated content
Do you know if i should use canonical tag, or 301 redirection from
http://mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com
To avoid duplicated content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without ...
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Blocking URLs and canonical questions
We are running a Magento store set up and was looking to block all pages with the exception of a select few.
It seems the only way we can do this is with blocking direct paths to files that are in ...
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Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent.
Which is the ...
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How do I hide a 301 redirect from my root domain?
I was analyzing my webpage SEO using an online tool where I saw that my http status for my root domain name www.caliberequipment.com was resulting in a 301 redirect to ...
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Should I use nofollow on internal links that don't need to be crawled?
We have a product navigation engine that allow our customers to filter products based on attributes (size, color, etc.). We are implementing an upgrade that allows them to use "multi-select" ...
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Google ranking - difference between example.com and example.com/?ref=id
Does it impact a site's Google ranking if I link to the site with a "referrer" query-string? e.g: example.com/?ref=mysite instead of example.com ?
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Similar URLs for same page
I'm working with a site that uses slightly different URLs for the same content. The sitemap lists the pages as:
www.website.com/webpage.html
If you surf through the site the same page is found at:
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How to tackle this duplicate content issue? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I've a new website coming up with 1000's of page which will contain some city codes. I'd ...
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Multilingual sites SEO and canonical
I'm in the process of improving the SEO in one of our client's multilingual sites. Currently the site passes a user the site in their preferred language by checking for a language cookie set by the ...
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Canonical Tag Not Being Recognized
I'm puzzled by the first Google search result in this list.
The first result has the following rel="canonical" tag:
<link rel="canonical" ...
