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More options Sep 12 2007, 11:18 am

From: JLH

Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:18:29 -0000

Local: Wed, Sep 12 2007 11:18 am

Subject: Re: Helping webmasters with duplicate content

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1) whatever swedish-fish.jpg is, it's not being shown.

2) I'm encouraged to see Maile say, "When tracking visitor
information, use 301 redirects to redirect URLs with parameters such
as affiliateID, trackingID, etc. to the canonical version." I've been
tempted to do this since I've got affiliate links that have caused
some of those links to be seen in the search results (I got some
newspapers that carry a lot of PageRank to be affiliates and their
links are more powerful than the stores themselves), but I didn't want
to appear like I was doing anything too sneaky. I must admit however,
as the stores have aged Google has gotten the correct URLs listed more
and more.

Off to modify some shopping cart code...

On Sep 12, 10:05 am, OME UK wrote:

> I would second this and I was going to say something similar myself -
> transparency is important here and it would be really good if this
> could be added into the Webmaster Tools reports. Trusting Google to
> "consolidate properties of the URLs in the cluster, such as link
> popularity, to the representative URL" could easily breed complacency
> that the the original problem doesn't need to be fixed and could mean
> the number of inadvertant duplicates increases.

> BTW - excellently detailed post that helps website owners understand
> the true situation, rather than have to rely upon SEO agencies - would
> rather hear it direct from you guy's...please keep these type of
> updates coming!

> Regards,
> Paul

> On Sep 12, 11:47 am, Red Cardinal wrote:

> > Perhaps if dupe content was reported so that we could find the
> > problematic URLs or parameters? And some report of what the algo
> > believes is the canonical URL so that if this is incorrect we can
> > apply additional resources to fixing this on our sides.

> > As the size of sites grow dealing with dupe content becomes a less
> > trivial issue.

> > Nice to see you engaging the community via group.

> > Best rgds
> > Richard

> > On Sep 12, 9:17 am, Maile Ohye wrote:

> > > Hi everyone,

> > > You may have seen our post on the Webmaster Central Blog:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-duplicate-c...

> > > We welcome suggestions for helping you with duplicate content caused
> > > by URL parameters.

> > > Thanks!
> > > Maile and all of the Webmaster Central Team- Hide quoted text -

> > - Show quoted text -

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