Printer Friendly Pages

Printer Frinedly Pages --good and bad...

[chatterbug89]

OK, I was just wondering if you have printer friendly pages for every content page, would google penalize you for having double of the same page? OK, the pages arn't excactly the same, but the content is basicly.

Would you say to keep my printer friendly links Search Engine "Unfrinedly" (AKA: www.whatever.com/wow.php?23) instead of having them search engine friendly?

I suspose, that having a printer friendly page for every content page that is search engine frinedly could get you indexed more, but there is that chance that google may get mad...also, do you think it is even worth it to have the printer friendly links even if i make them search engine unfrinedly so google dosent' get mad...

[DerekH]

If you use CSS to make the pages printer friendly (by adding a second style sheet with ... media="print" in its meta tag), then there's only one page, and you can't be penalised.
That's what I do, and it's served me really well.
The second style sheet turns off, or moves, the things that you want to change during printing.
There are many tutorials on the web.
It's great and saves you bandwidth and storage too, since the page isn't even sent to the visitor a second time when he prints it.
DerekH

[chatterbug89]

Acutally...i'm using a whole backend system for my content...no point in using static pages...especialy when you have a lot.

I could try that CSS thing thou...but I am not using CSS...but oh well...i'll think of some way ;-)

[kaled]

If you want to place printer-friendly pages on separate urls, simply ensure that robots are excluded, either with a robots meta tag or by using the robots.txt file.

Kaled.

[chatterbug89]

That woudl rpobaly be the easiest solution...i'm goign to try to do that css thing when i have time thou...