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Hi. Does anybody know where the rankings summary has moved to in the campaign reports? I want to know how many keywords have moved up or down in the last week and can't find it anywhere!

We're working on an SEO update for http://www.gear-zone.co.uk at the moment, and I was wondering if someone could take a quick look at the new robots file (http://gearzone.affinitynewmedia.com/robots.txt) to make sure we haven't missed anything?

Thanks

You can always report it here - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93713.

It just goes to show that this stuff works still though.

Thanks for answering so quickly. We were going to add a canonical tag as well to make sure, but I thought a rewrite might be the best bet to start with. Would you do both, or just the canonical?

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We're currently working on an SEO project for http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/.

After a crawl of their site, tons of duplicate content issues came up. We think this is largely down to the use of their brand filtering system, which works like this:

By clicking on a brand, the site generates a url with the brand keywords in, for example:

http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/3-season-synthetic-cid77.html

filtered by the brand Mammut becomes:

http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/3-season-synthetic-**Mammut**-cid77.html?filter_brand=48

This was done by a previous SEO agency in order to prevent duplicate content. We suspect that this has made the issue worse though, as by removing the dynamic string from the end of the URL, the same content is displayed as the unfiltered page.

For example

http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/3-season-synthetic-**Mammut**-cid77.html

shows the same content as:

http://www.gear-zone.co.uk/3-season-synthetic-cid77.html

Now, if we're right in thinking that Google is unlikely to the crawl the dynamic filter, this would seem to be the root of the duplicate issue.

If this is the case, would rewriting the dynamic URLs to static on the server side be the best fix? It's a Windows Server/asp site.

I hope that's clear! It's a pretty tricky issue and it would be good to know your thoughts.

Thanks!

I'm doing some work for a university, and previewing content before it goes live. The CMS they use (Polypoly) outputs web pages as non-public until they're approved.

I suppose I can copy and paste the html with a base href on my server to give me an idea, but it's a bit of a faff, that's all.

Thanks for taking the time to answer too, it's much appreciated.

Does anybody know if there's any easy way to use the On-Page Optimisation tool on intranet or not publicly accessible pages? Thanks!