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

Roman romat2 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 17:32:49 CDT 2006


On 10/28/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't understand either :-) Maybe that search robot first finds all
links, stores them as they are and later gets contents without
considering redirection.

I just verified on Yahoo that all group homepages are also indexed as
http://server/Group.

Roman




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