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Please, what causes the double indexing pages?
For example:
old dynamic url
http://www.example.com/search.php?location1=2
the redirections to the new static url:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /search\.php\?location1=2\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^search\.php$ http://www.example.com/europe-2/austria/? [R=301,L]
mod rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^europe-([0-9]+)/(.*)/?$ search.php?location1=$1
After several days in the Google index I have duplicates:
http://www.example.com/europe-2/austria/
http://www.example.com/europe-2/austria/?location1=2
Is the problem in rewrite rules, or it causes something else?
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Ed
I wouldn't be concerned at this time, as this is far less than the time required by search engine crawlers to complete at least two full indexing cycles on a typical Web site...
Search results are returned almost instantly. Indexing and index updates take weeks or months.
Assuming that you've changed all of the links on your pages to the new/correct static form, I'd give it a couple of months before becoming concerned. Your code looks fine, but it just takes time.
If you can't "just wait it out," then monitor your access logs for search engine crawlers, and after each one has spidered all of the important pages on your site *twice,* then you can begin to worry if this problem still persists.
In the meantime, it would likely be more productive to work on expanding the site's content and/or getting more backlinks with relevant link-text from other relevant sites in your market segment.
Jim
[edit] Korecktid speling errur. [/edit]
[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:47 pm (utc) on Jan. 12, 2010]
Best Regards!
