Product scripts and duplicate content

[palmpal]

Hello,

I can access my product pages by design and by type but it results in two episodes of my product being displayed. The only difference is in the CGI script name:

http:// subdomain.domain.com/cgi-bin/store/script1.cgi/product

http:// subdomain.domain.com/cgi-bin/store/script2.cgi/product

Both pull the same product. Is this considered duplicate content by Google? Should put one directory in my robots.txt file and ban it?

Thanks

[tedster]

Having two urls that both access an identical page will eventually create chaos - best case long term is that the Google algorithm chooses which one is in the results, and the worst case is that both versions vanish from the results.

So yes, be pro-active and use robots.txt to tell Google the urls that you don't want used.

[sublime1]

I can confirm (from the School of Hard Knocks) that tedster is correct. One URL per page.

[palmpal]

Hello and thank you. I have a post over in the Robots.txt forum explaining my current setup with my sub-domain. I'm not quite sure how to make the directive for my Robots.txt file, given the sub-domain situation. Once I can get clarification I will ban the duplicate content.