Will this get me a duplicate content penalty?

Poll added to front page changes url

[aroach]

I just added a poll to my main page.

The url of the page when a visitor first arrives looks like it always has:

[mysite.com...] or [mysite.com...]

But now once someone answers the poll question or clicks on the link to view the poll results it changes to this:

[mysite.com...]

The page displayed is identical except for the poll results displaying in the box where the poll is.

I know this new url that's generated is crawled by spiders because my Atomz site search indexed it and when I ran LinkAlarm it picked it up as well.

[aroach]

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to make those example links not show up as live links. I'm new here. Can someone fill me in on that as well?

[kevinpate]

Just break the link when you go back and edit.
Stick a * in the middle of the http, ala ht*tp or h**p
or http**/

Your main question, I don't know the answer.

[tenita]

My answer is no, you won't be penalized for that.
There are thounsands of sites in the Google index that use the the same method for showing the results of a pool.

[vincevincevince]

nah, i say not. so long as the title is the same, google'll just dump the poll result one.

if you're really concerned, give a cookie when the guy votes, then reload page... and if cookie exists, show results, otherwise show original page. that way the url doesn't change, and google will never see the results, only the original page.

[aroach]

if you're really concerned, give a cookie when the guy votes, then reload page... and if cookie exists, show results, otherwise show original page. that way the url doesn't change, and google will never see the results, only the original page.

I believe the script may already do this although I don't know Perl. I just followed the installation instructions. I think I'll go find some other sites using the same script and see if they have PR. Thanks.