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    • jotham2
      jotham2 last edited by

      Crawl Diagnostics gives me 1650 duplicate page content errors. 800+ are for photo gallery, the link upon which my large image is shown. 800+ are for the Email a Friend form page.

      Presumably SEOMoz's tool is getting there by following the link inside a product page, which as you can see will differ only by the ProductCode of every product.
      www.completemobilehomesupply.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=anchor101
      www.completemobilehomesupply.com/EmailaFriend.asp?ProductCode=Shutter001

      1 - Is it critical to fix?
      I am assuming Yes, but if for some reason the answer is No, please share.

      2 - Any idea on how to fix?
      The site uses Volusion, fyi, so it may be a limiting factor of the platform.

      Thank you for your time.
      Also if this topic has been previously covered, please link and I'll read there instead.

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      • SlavaRybalka
        SlavaRybalka last edited by

        if possible, disallow the pages that cause problems in your robots.txt.

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        • GoldStarGames
          GoldStarGames last edited by

          I have similar problems with Volusion.  Curious to read about a solution....

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          • loopyal
            loopyal last edited by

            Yes, use the robots.txt file.

            I had my email a friend links in the robots file, then I saw a post here that suggested using robots was bad and that a META noindex,nofollow was better, so I changed to that and it was a disaster.

            Google started fetching and indexing those pages. They were even ranking above our content.

            And they were forcing our content into supplementary results.

            I changed it back to robots, and that fixed the problem, but I think it took a week to undo the damage.

            You can use a wildcard asterisk in the robots file, but I don't recommend using more than one wildcard per line.

            Disallow: /emailafriend/

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            • Aran_Smithson
              Aran_Smithson @loopyal last edited by

              The code above will disallow a directory called emailafriend. Use the following to disallow the two .asp files.

              User-agent: *

              Disallow: /EmailaFriend.asp

              Disallow: /PhotoGallery.asp

              Read more about Robots.txt here --> http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html

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              • jotham2
                jotham2 last edited by

                Great, thanks guys, will disallow those two pages in robots.txt.

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