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 have permission to view it. That is not likely to help your cause with google.
The best solution, is to 301 redirect to the canonical page. If you can't do that, then use Rob's suggestion of <link rel="canonical"... -jc On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Michael B Allen <iop...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.html was just a symbolic link to the page > with a bad rank. Meaning Google was indexing the same exact page > through two slightly different URLs. > > I now generate the pages separately with one containing <meta > name="robots" content="noindex"/> (which unfortunately has to be > index.html because the other page has good external links) so > hopefully that will clear up any penalty for duplicate content. > > Anyway, if anyone knows of other Google rank pitfalls to avoid, I > would be delighted to hear about them. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >
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