Dirty Butter Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I've taken a new look at the website data Google has for us and noticed a list of duplicate meta data for some pages on our site. A few were definitely my fault, and I've corrected those. But several are puzzling, such as this one: http://dirtybutter.c...es-giraffe.html All appears to be OK on the listing, but here's the other link they show with the same meta data: http://dirtybutter.com/plushcatalog/index.php?_g=sw&r=%2Fplushcatalog%2Findex.php%3F_a%3DviewProd%26amp%3BproductId%3D2708&lang=nb That sends you to the front page of the site. This is the only product that is on Google's list that behaves this way. Was it just some kind of temporary computer glitch, or does this point to something I need to fix? The other more common issue comes from the meta data for a category showing up on every page of products in that category. Is there any way to stop this from showing as duplicate meta data, or is it even something to be concerned about? http://dirtybutter.com/plushcatalog/plush-dolls.html?page%3D15&a=AIYkKU_OXsGc7adimnXRSFWbZPjeTujnpA">/plushcatalog/plush-dolls.html?page=15 http://dirtybutter.com/plushcatalog/plush-dolls.html?page%3Dall&a=AIYkKU_POpFpuCdaumr99CW_sJJkPawniA">/plushcatalog/plush-dolls.html?page=all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 As for the first code sample you gave, this is the link for where someone can switch languages (_g=sw is switch, r=zzz is the address to return to, and lang=nb is the language to switch to, but I think there isn't an 'nb' language). The next two are supposed to be links found in the pagination display element. But these are malformed. I don't recognize what could have caused this, but the third-party skin is a variable that needs discussing with the skin developer in order to eliminate it as a suspect. What I think you can do is rely exclusively on the sitemap you submit to the search engines, and code the templates and robots file to not follow any links on the page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 I'll check with the skin developer on the category page links. What I think you can do is rely exclusively on the sitemap you submit to the search engines, and code the templates and robots file to not follow any links on the page. I'm sorry, but I need more detail on how to "code the templates and robots file to not follow any links on the page". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 In a (stock) skin's main.php template, you will see this: <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> Change that to content="noindex, nofollow" Then please read this nofollow discussion in Google's Webmaster Q&A. The robots.txt file, located at http://dirtybutter.com/robots.txt might have (because I'm not 100% familiar): user-agent: * disallow: /plushcatalog/ sitemap: http://dirtybutter.com/plushcatalog/sitemap.xml.gz sitemap: http://dirtybutter.com/plushcatalog/sitemap.xml Please read this robots.txt discussion in Googles Q&A and Google's documentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Thank you, as always, for your patient help!! I would have thought if the main.php said noindex, nofollow that our site would not be seen by Google - oh well, so much for MY logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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