Is this dupe content/pages?

Same page with different parameters

[kpaul]

Question: I had an archive page:

widgets.php?offset=20&limit=20&var=this

I changed it to something like:

widgets.php?display=20

to make sure people could still get to the data, i made it so the results come up if you put either set of parameters in.

are these pages separate pages with duplicate content to Google?

Thanks,
kpaul

[allanp73]

It would be dup content and only one of these results would show up in Google's search results.

[kpaul]

What would you recommend?

Freshie just started picking up the new, but i don't want visitors to get a broke page when they find the old style.

Perhaps change the number of widgets displayed on each page? (That may create even *more* pages, though.)

Maybe I shoulda just left it alone, but I hap over 40 pages of widgets and wanted a cooler, Google-esque next/prev thingy.

I find myself stopping and thinking sometimes when designing - what would google think (WWGT?) Is this a bad thing? I mean, as long as it's not blatant (or otherwise) SPAM should site progress be stopped because of potential weirdness in Google?

Or is there a way I should have made this switch that would have been better?

Thanks.

[kaled]

Never used php but I assume it is just another scripting language to dynamically create an HTML page. In this case, all that is required is to ensure one version places an additional meta tag in the head.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

keyplyr suggested this to me in another thread.

I doubt that Google would apply a penalty, but a small change may be worth the peace of mind.

Hope this helps (and I'm not talking utter rubbish).