[pmwiki-users] Group home pages indexed twice in search engines

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Oct 27 17:12:48 CDT 2006


On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:07:53AM +0200, Roman wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:43:57PM +0200, Roman wrote:
> >> I've noticed that group home pages of my site are indexed twice in
> >> search engines - as http://server/Group/HomePage and
> >> http://server/Group. SEO and search engine guidelines don't recommend
> >> it (for example Google says in webmaster guidelines: "Don't create
> >> multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate
> >> content.").
> >>
> >> The only place where I have non-qualified group links is in skin tmpl,
> >> where it is defined the same way as in pmwiki default skin:
> >>
> >> <div class='pagegroup'><a href='{$ScriptUrl}/{$Group}'>{$Group}</a> 
> >/</div>
> >>
> >> I would like to have something like
> >>
> >> <div class='pagegroup'><a
> >> href='{$ScriptUrl}/{$GroupHomePage}'>{$Group}</a> /</div>
> >>
> >> Can anybody help to define $GroupHomePage page variable?
> >
> >Normally PmWiki returns a redirect when a page is requested
> >without a full pagename -- i.e., turning a request for
> >http://server/Group into a redirect to http://server/Group/HomePage.
> 
> I know, but some search engines, particularly Yahoo, probably does not
> take it into account. Even if I publish sitemap for them with only
> fully qualified pagenames.

I don't understand.  If the server returns a redirect that sends
http://server/Group to http://server/Group/HomePage, then there's only
one page that has indexable content, and that's the one with the full url.

Pm




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