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    • TSDigital
      TSDigital last edited by

      We have a sub-domain that is hosted by a third party. These pages are highly dynamic (change daily or more often) as they are product search results. Unfortunately they are raising several errors and warnings including

      • duplicate page content, title missing or empty, long URLs, overly dynamic URL

      Would putting nofollows on the links to this sub-domain help, hurt or not affect page rank?

      As an example:

      Links in the middle of this page (prices) http://targetvacations.ca go to a page such as this http://travel.targetvacations.ca/cgi-bin/resultadv.cgi?id=16294922&code_ag=tgv&alias=tgv which is then redirected to a dynamic URL and presents the results.

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      • deltasystems
        deltasystems last edited by

        Pagerank sculpting is long dead. Technically you can still do it through some creative JavaScript, but the real issue here seems that you need to noindex these pages. What kind of pages are we talking about here?

        Are you using a CMS where you can easily edit permalinks? It's worth reviewing the longer ones if so.

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        • TSDigital
          TSDigital @deltasystems last edited by

          I updated the questions with sample pages that you can view. The real problem is that I have very limited control over the pages on the third party service and think I should nofollow the links on our home page and landing pages that I'm in control of.

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          • deltasystems
            deltasystems @TSDigital last edited by

            Yeah a page like this should be noindexed. You can do that in robots.txt, which you should be able to modify within your CMS or at the very least upload via FTP.

            Nofollowing the links will not doing anything for you.

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            • SEM-Freak
              SEM-Freak last edited by

              Tried rel=canonical tags in the ? Usually clears up dup content issues better than noindex

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