Hi, you could try putting a canonical tag into your view. Saying google that /photos is the same content as /photos.html.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html Greets, Max. Am 06.10.2010 16:49, schrieb Christine Nyb: > 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. 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. > > Thanks, > > Christine -- 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.

