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Googles HTML suggestions. erm? what to do.

         

Fingers68

9:42 pm on Mar 6, 2010 (gmt 0)



Google HTML suggestions,Pages with duplicate title tags is show this even though there was a nofollow in place.

/product.php?product=variable_string1&title=variable_string2&searchlink=yes&search=

However none of the above urls are in the serps

It is the same url as this, which is all I want to be in the index and what is in my site map.

/product.php?product=variable_string1

Is there anything I should do?

g1smd

8:19 pm on Mar 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Do you want on-site users to still be able to use that URL?

There's many things you can do.

If you don't want the URL to work at all, redirect it.

Alternatively, you could add the rel=canonical attribute for pageviews when that URL is requested.

Another way is to add a rule to the robots.txt file: Disallow /*title= or Disallow: /*searchlink=yes or whatever will match all of the URLs you do not want accessed, without blocking any that you do want to be accessed by crawlers.