Re: [nyphp-talk] Google Rank Amateur

2011-07-11 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Rob Marscher wrote: > On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >> Meaning Google was indexing the same exact page >> through two slightly different URLs. >> >> I now generate the pages separately with one containing > name="robots" content="noindex"/> (

Re: [nyphp-talk] Google Rank Amateur

2011-07-10 Thread John Campbell
Your "solution" will make things worse with google. There is no "duplicate" content pentalty, but there is a "scraper" penalty, and I doubt that is being applied in your case. "noindex" tells google that you have a page that customers can and should see, but the googlebot specifically doesn't hav

Re: [nyphp-talk] Google Rank Amateur

2011-07-10 Thread Rob Marscher
On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > Meaning Google was indexing the same exact page > through two slightly different URLs. > > I now generate the pages separately with one containing name="robots" content="noindex"/> (which unfortunately has to be > index.html because the other

[nyphp-talk] Google Rank Amateur

2011-07-10 Thread Michael B Allen
I just found a major mistake in one of my websites. The Google rank for the primary page has always been inexplicably horrible. Then I found out that Google decreases the ranking of a page if it contains content that is largely duplicated elsewhere such as on an adjacent page. Turns out that index.