Christine Nyb wrote: > Hi, > > I have searched the forum to see if this has come up before. If it has > and I missed it I am sorry. > > I'm fairly new to Ruby on Rails and have converted an existing site. To > avoid annoying redirects and disrupting search engine results I updated > the routes.rb file so that the old file name renders the correct rhtml > file. For example, photos.html renders /photos. > > It works but the problem is that Google Webmaster Tools sees duplicate > meta data and titles for each page.
What's an example of what you're seeing, and how is it not what you want? > I would really appreciate > information on how to correct this. I have been trying to figure out how > to get google to ignore .html files or treat them as duplicate data but > have had no luck so far. This may be a Google Webmaster Tools question, not a Rails one. But...you could set things up so that instead of photos.html routing to the same place as photos, it simply makes a 301 or 302 redirect. Presumably Google will then understand that the two URLs are the same page, though you should check their docs to make sure. And for human users, the browsing experience will be essentially the same as before. > > Thanks, > > Christine Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
