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#1 2008-09-03 13:27:39
- beechy
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Google webmaster tools showing duplicate content not sure how to remov
I have just checked my google webmaster tools account for a website I run that uses textpattern, in the “Diagnostics” section under “Content analysis” it showing duplicate title tags and metatag for some of the articles I have posted on my site -
It would appear that google has indexed these articles twice.
i.e
http://www.mysitename/section/id-number/article-title
http://www.mysitename/section/id/index.php
- both these urls point to the same article
Is there a way to turn off this behaviour in textpattern or can I simply restrict the duplicate page http://www.mysitename/section/id/index.php with a robots.txt file if so how would I do this (what would I write in the robots file without totally restricting both urls.) – so that i dont have to update the robots file everytime I post an article
I have my urls setup in textpattern as – /section/id/title and dont really want to change this if at all possible
Last edited by beechy (2008-09-03 13:33:59)
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Re: Google webmaster tools showing duplicate content not sure how to remov
You can do it by redirecting or by restricting the URL by robots.txt.
In example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /section/id/index.phpMore info at robotstxt.org
Also be aware that you can view the content both by messy and clean URLs, so that can also cause dublicate content. rah_metas can redirect messy URLs to clean ones.
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