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    • CommercePundit
      CommercePundit last edited by

      Today, I was reading help article for URL parameters by Google.

      http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1235687

      I come to know that, Google is giving value to URLs which ave parameters that change or determine the content of a page. There are too many pages in my website with similar value for Name, Price and Number of product. But, I have restricted all pages by Robots.txt with following syntax.

      URLs:
      http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?dir=asc&order=name
      http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?dir=asc&order=price
      http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?limit=100

      Syntax in Robots.txt
      Disallow: /?dir=
      Disallow: /
      ?p=
      Disallow: /*?limit=

      Now, I am confuse. Which is best solution to get maximum benefits in SEO?

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley @CommercePundit last edited by

        No i dont think so, even if the thought they were duplicate, then they will pick one as the original. so one of them will rank.

        If you are still concerned use tha canonicall tag, rather them remove them from index

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        • CommercePundit
          CommercePundit @CommercePundit last edited by

          Your concern is that, Google will crawl following all pages. If I will not do any thing with those pages. Right?

          http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps

          http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?limit=100&p=2

          http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?limit=60&p=2

          http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?limit=40&p=2

          Now, my website is on 3rd page of Google for Discount Table Lamps keyword.

          I have fear that, If Google will crawl multiple pages with duplicate Title tag so it may mesh up current ranking for Discount Table Lamps keyword.

          What you think about it?

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          • AlanMosley
            AlanMosley @CommercePundit last edited by

            If the content is different, then dont do anything, but if it is duplicate us ethe canonical tag.

            The meta tages are not a problem, you are not going to get flaged for that, it would be better if you could make them unique but this is a very small problem

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            • CommercePundit
              CommercePundit @CommercePundit last edited by

              Will it really work? Because, both page have different content.

              http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps have 100 products and

              http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?limit=100&p=2 have different + unique 100 products.

              One another problem is regarding Meta info. Both page have same Meta info. If Google will index both pages so it may create warning message for duplicate Meta info across too many pages.

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              • AlanMosley
                AlanMosley @CommercePundit last edited by

                Thats the advice i gave you, put a canonical tag in the page

                rel="canonical" href="http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps"/>

                if google finds http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?dir=asc&order=name

                it will know it5 is mean to be http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps

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                • CommercePundit
                  CommercePundit @AlanMosley last edited by

                  Honestly, I did not getting it. Because, I have read one help article about URL parameters by Google.

                  It shows me some different thing. Google suggested to use Google webmaster tools. But, I have restricted all dynamic pages by robots.txt.

                  So, I want to know best practice which may help me to gain my crawling and no of indexed pages.

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                  • AlanMosley
                    AlanMosley last edited by

                    I would simplty put a rel canonical in the page point ing to the true URL. so SE's will see them as one page.

                    It is better to use cononical for the reasons in the google doc you posted, goolge may not pick the nest url to be the canonical, you should make that choice for them

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