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Blocking Dynamic Search Result Pages From Google
Hi, So the main issue with dynamic search results is that they won't have unique content, and will quite often duplicate other pages, as you've discovered. E.g. Products under £10, Products under £20, and Products under £30 would all include content from the first, and then the first and second categories. The usual answer is to just noindex all of them, particularly if individual product pages are your focus and ranking well. Unless you specifically want to rank for 'x products under £10' then there's no issue with removing them from search results. You have a couple of options for doing this - either by noindexing any dynamic search content via robots.txt, or Noindex,Follow, which still allows crawling, but won't display the results. In general, I'd say that Noindexing the dynamic search results with a wildcard is easiest and most effective. If you did have something you wanted to rank - then it's be a case of setting a specific search result with some unique content describing that category etc. Dan
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | badgergravling0 -
Why is Moz Crawling More Pages Than My Site Actually Has?
Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. It's tough to say without being able to look at your Campaign directly, but I can give you a hint! If you go to All Crawled Pages and download the CSV, Column B is the Referrer URL, the page our crawler was on when it found the link to the page in Column A. You should be able to trace our steps backward to find where all these links are coming from on your site. I hope that helps! If you're still needing some help, please write in to us at help@moz.com with all the details of your issue, and we'll do our very best to sort things out for ya. Cheers!
Other Research Tools | | tawnycase0 -
I'm Pulling Hairs! - Duplicate Content Issue on 3 Sites
Hey there, Regarding the tech issues, if Google has any difficulties with crawling your site (duplicates included), it can't reach the content and links you have there. Therefore, it's crucial to solve the tech issues first to help Google crawl your site as smoothly as possible so it can see your content. Also, anytime the page expires, redirect it with 301 to a similar one. Feel free to shoot other questions. Cheers, Martin
Search Engine Trends | | benesmartin0 -
Duplicate Content on Product Pages with Canonical Tags
Hi Drew, If you have multiple canonical tags on a single page, Google will ignore both of them so you will definitely need to to remove the old canonical tag so there is only one on each page. But it sounds like you are trying to use canonical tags correctly to resolve these duplicate content issues. If you wan't to read more about canonical tags, this recent article by Patrick Stox on Search Engine Land is excellent: http://searchengineland.com/canonical-tags-easy-right-whats-worst-happen-274635 Cheers, David
Search Engine Trends | | davebuts0