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    zumpner
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    Posted: 2005-Jan-04 04:04
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    Hi, haven’t posted in a while but I’m looking for a graceful way out on this situation.

    About 2 weeks ago, I had a fully dynamic site. Not too large. Around 100 pages. Nothing was getting indexed by Google. The dynamic pages were listed without a description or cache.

    I decided to implement mod_rewrite. I have completed the implementation and the site is now static (well, kinda, right).

    Google spidered my site right before I went static and indexed everything as supplemental. Now every dynamic page has a full title, description, cache, etc.

    Ok, seeing as they are supplemental, this doesn’t do me much good. But wait, I have a new problem. Will Google think that the dynamic pages and mod_rewrite static pages are duplicates???? Well of course it will. This can only mean penalties.

    My question is how to gracefully faze out the dynmic URLs and have Google spider my new mod_rewrite psuendo URLs without a duplication penalty???



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    Posted: 2005-Jan-04 04:41
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    use the robots.txt file for steering googlebot away from your dynamic URL stings. you won't get a duplication penalty, they simply select one of the two pages and index it. of course using the robots.txt file is what google states in their webmaster section as instructions for your scenario.

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    Posted: 2005-Jan-04 04:43
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    Thanks doc

    In the robots file would i have to list every dynamic page?


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