Avoiding Duplicate Content On -i-2.html Pages

[Victor Wise]

I know this is something that has probably been talked about thousands of times; but I have spent 2 hours of research on the forums and still am unsure of the proper solution.

 

I am using information pages for a substantial portion of my site content. You know, the pages that are dynamic, end in -i-#.html and are part of a php file..those ones :)

 

How should I go about ensuring that these pages don't generate duplicate content?

I mean, if my page url is: back_pain-i-4.html; some competitor can easily cause me to have a duplicate content penalty by getting the url we_are_spamming_you-i-4.html indexed. :sweating: I am assuming that I need to use some 301 redirects or something.

 

Can any of you SEO scientists on this forum help me out with your knowledge or point me to the right place in this forum? :rolleyes:

[mansey]

Hi,

 

good point. Same Problem comes with the

search results of "Manufaturers"

 

Even if Search egine friendly in admin is enabeld

it delivers a lot of crap.

 

Best Regards

 

Michael

[abra123cadabra]

As far as I understood duplicate content up to now, it was about the real content being copied and indexed from other pages before your page makes it to the index and had nothing to do with the type of url.

 

So in the case of articles which may appear on many sites (with the approval of the author), I would add it to my site and wait a few days before making it available for others to add it to their sites. If the search enginges are visiting your site daily (on mine they are almost 24/7), this should make sure they find the new article.

 

It's still early here, hope you understand what I mean.

 

abra

[Victor Wise]

As far as I understood duplicate content up to now, it was about the real content being copied and indexed from other pages before your page makes it to the index and had nothing to do with the type of url.

 

Abra,

 

I think that is the most enlightened outlook on SEO I have ever seen on these forums :rolleyes:

 

Your right of course, the affect on SEO will be very minute. Never the less, its hard not to be a perfectionist. (w00t) I still would like to redirect everything over to a specified url since it does help your pagerank a little (so I hear). Also, without the redirect, I don't think I would get as much link juice from misspelled URL's - another minor SEO consideration.

 

That being said - are there any SEO mad scientists out there that know the esoteric solution to my redirect problem?

[Guest]

How should I go about ensuring that these pages don't generate duplicate content?

I mean, if my page url is: back_pain-i-4.html; some competitor can easily cause me to have a duplicate content penalty by getting the url we_are_spamming_you-i-4.html indexed. :sweating: I am assuming that I need to use some 301 redirects or something.

 

Can any of you SEO scientists on this forum help me out with your knowledge or point me to the right place in this forum? :rolleyes:

 

As far I know this issue you're asking is specific to the ultimate seo urls module you're using and not SEO in general. So it's how that particular module is working. You could check the support thread if they have a workaround about it.