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#1 2006-07-05 17:11:15
- Cardston
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Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
It is generally accepted that Google applies a penalty to sites with content that is duplicated on multiple pages on the same site. Given the URL structure within textpattern, it appears that Google may penalize a site with commenting turned on.
Example:
domain.com/blog/article_title1
domain.com/blog/article_title1?commented=1
I have google ads on my site and because of this Google finds (and crawls) the second URL even though I don’t have a link to it anywhere on my site.
Does anybody have a suggestions on a fix for the problem to avoid the duplicate content penalty?
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Re: Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
How does the google bot comment? I guess you might have a problem if someone links to the ?commented=1 page, but that’s unlikely.
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#3 2006-07-05 20:13:51
- Cardston
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Re: Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
“I have google ads on my site and because of this Google finds (and crawls) the second URL even though I don’t have a link to it anywhere on my site.”
To further clarify-when somebody comments the page loads WITH google ads and google becomes aware of the page because of how Adsense works. Googlebot hits the page to look for important keywords so they can deliver targeted ads.
I then see these pages crawled in the daily crawl of my site by google for google search.
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#4 2006-07-05 23:16:01
- Mary
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Re: Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
Given the URL structure within textpattern, it appears that Google may penalize a site with commenting turned on.
I find it very unlikely. Why? Because the difference is only a query string. Query strings get used in urls all over the web, some causing actual different pages, some not.
Ask them. If they do, why and what we should do about it. Can’t fix a problem that “might” exist. :)
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#5 2006-07-05 23:17:16
- zem
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Re: Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
I’m doubtful Google would apply a duplicate penalty in this case. The URL’s are identical except for the query string. If Google did apply a penalty, any site that used “?print=1” for a printable page would be penalized.
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Re: Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
We did discuss this previously. The thing is: 1) As long as a page is not linked to, Google is relatively uinterested in those pages. 2) The pages are not identical/duplicates, since one offers a cmment form, and the other a message about a submitted comment. 3) The solution to the different url would be to have another “interlude” page, that loads after the comment is posted and then refreshes to the article-page (similar to hat happens when you post here). Given how much the preview-step is disklied, my guess is that most people prefer the current way to that solution.
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#7 2006-07-06 20:03:16
- NyteOwl
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Re: Duplicate content penalty and Comment URL
Every busyweb log on the planet would be peanlized considering the level of cross posting, quoting and trackbacks with exerpts that exists in the “blogsphere”
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