Please help....

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

Hi Guys!

Ok a bit of a funny one here which is causing a confusion between us and a web designer and I was wondering if anyone on here might be able to help.

Just a bit of back ground for you, the website has been built on Concrete 5 and when we tried to building a sitemap we found over 110,000 pages. When we spoke to the web designer they have told us that within Google webmaster tools, Google has only indexed 58. But.... (and this is where things get a little confusing, so bare with me.)

I thought that cant be right so into the Google search bar I put in site:www.sitename.co.uk and had 217 results appear. So google cant have just 58 pages indexed, right?

So after speaking to the designer he then posted on the Concrete 5 help forum, to try and help figure it out.

I have posted his exact forum post below that the web designer has asked:

I'm having some issues where a site we are working on seems to be making multiple pages going to the same page. An SEO specialist has run a report and found a number of duplicate pages created by C5.

We are concerned that this is going to dilute or worse penalise the way google sees the site.

http://www.sitename.co.uk/
[http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID...](http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=134 "http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=134")
[http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID...](http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=123 "http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=123")
[http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID...](http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=41 "http://www.sitename.co.uk/index.php?cID=?akID[155][atSelectOptionID][]=41")

Is there a way of stopping google from accessing these duplicate 'cID' pages and stop them being made? Also is there a way of getting rid of the ones that are there? We've done a number of sites in C5 and are beginning to get concerned about this...

So I guess my question is:

If I can access the same content via 4-5 different cID's is that classed as duplicate content?

Thanks in advance guys, and any help would greatly appreciated.

[EGOL]

If I can access the same content via 4-5 different cID's is that classed as duplicate content?

Yes, that is duplicate content - and all of the extra pages are a linkjuice sink.  You might be able to fix this with rel="canonical"

see Matt Cutts video here.. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

[MarieHaynes]

Yup...that's what I was thinking.  Simply put a rel canonical on each of the pages with duplicates and this will tell Google which page is the real one.  This'll solve the problem.

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

Thanks EGOL & Marie for being so helpful!

Anyone else have any experiences working with Concrete 5?