Andy Langton
msg:4499319 | 1:05 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Presumably you have a page somewhere which describes the services in a more generic way, or at least services as the route you want people to follow to get to the individual services (which may even be the homepage)? If so, redirect there.
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rolands
msg:4499337 | 1:39 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
hi
thanks for the reply, what my main concern is that i will be recycling the text contained within the services page on the seperate pages.
e.g.
contained with services.htm is 3 sections, widgetsA widgetsB and widgetsC the text in the widgetsA will become a new page widgetsa.htm the text from the paragraph in the widgetb section will become widgetsb.htm etc
i'm worried that i might get a duplicate content penalty when i do this. will you suggestion prevent this do you think?
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Andy Langton
msg:4499345 | 1:54 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
It's very common for pages to move (which would me the entirety of the text would move). There's no real possibility of duplicate content if one is redirected. if you want 'belt and braces' then you should let Googlebot discover the redirect prior to publishing links to the new pages, but I doubt you need to go as far as that!
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rolands
msg:4499366 | 2:53 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
that's great thanks very much
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triggerfinger
msg:4499409 | 5:04 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
From an SEO perspective, it comes down to whether you want to drive traffic to the pages. If you have using widgeta.htm for strictly a user benefit, consider noindex'ing the item pages, keeping services.htm open. Not dupe content issue there.
-t
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rolands
msg:4499461 | 8:40 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
it was actually for seo so that i could have more specific title tags etc
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Andy Langton
msg:4499491 | 11:24 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I actually strongly disagree with using noindex (whether via robots.txt or a meta element) as a solution to duplication problems. It creates additional URLs for evaluation and you stand to lose any link value and ranking signals to excluded URLs. As a last resort, OK, but as a general practice I would try to avoid it.
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triggerfinger
msg:4501319 | 7:48 pm on Sep 28, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Technically you could use noindex,follow to keep link juice, if that's a big concern.
If these pages aren't mission critical, I would just open all the pages, and see how aggregate traffic is affected, after say, one month. If the main page drives more traffic than the individuals + main page, revert back. If traffic increases overall, keep monitoring. Also keep monitoring indexation, if one of the individual pages is kicked out, sure fire sign that they won't get traffic.
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