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Sorting and Filters = Duplicate Content?

         

dealcatcher

2:11 pm on Aug 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I'm working on a redesign and the new site has 4 sort views, ie. (sort by price, recent, popular) and also has 3 filters, ie. (videos, news, photos). I don't want to incur and huge duplicate content penalty for all these other views and filters. Should I block google from looking at all the other views? Or should I use ajax or javascript for the sorts? I'm also using pretty URLs for each sort /news/popular, would I be better off doing something like /news.php?sort=popular. Does anyone have any clever suggestions?

tedster

5:50 pm on Aug 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Yes - find a way to keep Google from indexing various sort orders for results. It definitely can cause duplicate filtering and eventually ranking problems.