GreyWing

Just been bitch slapped by Google on a major site over poor or duplicated content, there is some irony there isn't there I can still smile though

Anyway, I think the problem is that a lot of my pages according to google webmaster tools are showing as duplicates. However I think the problem is down to a submit review button at the bottom of each article. It is showing the same url but with "/submit-review" attached to the end of it. So google thinks they are two different url's and therefore have duplicate content on. Example below........

/category-a/134-the-name-of-the-article/submit-review
/category-a/134-the-name-of-the-article/

Does anyone know if you can write something to the robots file to stop it indexing anything with "submit-review" on the end of a url?

Cheers
Graeme

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murph

You want to use their rel=canonical tag on those pages and it should mean one page is indexed. I had the same!

Nick

I second Murph's response, am finding the canonical tag best for SEO purposes as doesn't harm if someone then links to a paginated/duplication version

GreyWing

I'm using joomla which generates the content, so I need to track down a solution for this.

Your help has pushed me in the right direction though, so many thanks.

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murph

Quick G search tells me that if you're using the sh404SEF component for your sef urls there's a plugin you can install to do the canonical tag

http://www.joomlablogger.net/joomla-...icate-content/

GreyWing

Using the other one mate acesef

I was considering an upgrade from 1.5 to 1.7 anyway, this may have just clinched it. Or may even just bite the bullet and do a full rebuild in some other format, maybe pay for a full build in html or something.

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murph

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.ph...b2888#p2562007

I ditched cms's a few years back... way too much hassle with all the updates and security nightmares

GreyWing

Very true mate, I had a big hacking attempt a few weeks ago. I had the software to repel it but still a pain in the butt.

I tend to probe a business idea with a Joomla site, see how it goes and then invest in a full build if it warrants it. This one as it happens was due to be handed over on a lease deal on the 1st of January for a lease of 2.5k -3k a month. Looks like that has been shot down now..... but more delayed rather than cancelled. The site will be back in a bit, from looking around a month or so. The new owners were planning on a new rebuild anyway, so could be worth doing that to start with rather than waiting.

But I deleted the offending link in each page that was giving the submit-review to be appended to the links. So in theory I just got rid of 320 of the 340 of the duplicate url's in google's webmaster tools.

Cheers for the link, I never knew anything about that and will certainly look for it in the future. It seems more important than I ever imagined.

All the best
Graeme

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