mario91000
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well As I understand it , the two urls'shttp://sub.domain.tld/path/to/file.exthttp://sub.domain.tld/path/to/file.ext?var=valueare counted as two <b>different</b> pages by google. My site uses the GET variables to swap stylesheets and then refresh into the same page. The content is <b>exactly the same</b>, even though the url is different.Every page has links to the stylesheet switcher on it, so in theory, google is going to start seeing multiple duplicates of every single page on my site. So two questions:<ol><li>will I get penalised?</li><li>What is the best method of preventing google from reaching these pages?</li></ol>I was thinking of includingCode: [ Select ]From my understanding Google will only index one page if it sees duplicates. Since the content is the same ... and only the formatting has changed ... is this a bad thing?Lately google has been penalising sites for duplicate content. I would suggest using robots.txt to disallow the url with the ?stuff to robots. This should alleviate any issues you may have down the road.Thanks for the replies guys, I implimented the robots META tag last night, although I've got a little room to move a google has only just started indexing me, and I've got no chance of getting into serps yet lol. rtchar, I did think along those lines, but I figure it is better to be safe than sorry TBH Plus google could change it's mind about duplicates in the future.nuclei wrote:From: http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots ... torial.htmCode: [ Select ]nuclei wrote:I dont actually know if it is less effective or not to be honest. I DO know all the engines follow robots.txt, but I have never had to use the meta equiv. Some engines may ignore that.Quote:Another option might be to bury the offending links in Javascript which will not be followed by search engines .... document.write('<a href="http://www.ozzu.com/other-google-information-and-resources/?s=0'">');Might be a little more exact than banning robots from your site entirely.rtchar wrote:rtchar wrote:Quote: