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vg5518
Joined: May 28, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-06 18:10
Hi,
I have another issue that might be contributing to my supplemental results problem. I have a mod that rewrites the url's in my store. Unfortunately, if you change a category name or a product name, it still brings up the same content instead of a 404. The way I was trying to deal with this was by putting a 301 redirect from the old url to the new one, but I have a problem with this:
1. If I try to redirect for example:
/cat--OldName--catid.html ... to
/cat--NewName--catid.html
what happens is the address bar displays:
mydomain/cat--newName--catid.html?seo=cat--OldName--catid
Will Google see this as a duplicate page?
2. Even if I delete a category or product, when you click on a link, instead of displaying a 404,it just displays a page that contains all of my "include" stuff (header, category list, footer) as well as the "default" meta tags and title.
Is there a way to serve up a 404 in these cases?
The other thing is that some of my categories have 3-4 pages of products and the only thing that changes is the product thumbnails and their respective link text and price. Even though every category has a unique title tag, meta description and keywords tag, plus unique on-page text about that category, the additional pages of the same category all have the same meta tags and category text. Just the thumbnails and their product names and price are different.
Are these add'l. category pages causing problems because I see that while the main categories are not supplemental, it seems that the "additional pages" in those categories are.
I know I'm probably wearing out my welcome here  , but if someone wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction I'd be really, really grateful.
Thanks again!
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-06 20:43
Each URL that serves content with a 200 reponse is indexable. If the indexable content is the same as the content on another page with a different URL then that is duplicate content.
To serve a 404 response, for non-valid URLs you can modify the script that generates the HTML page to test the URL and output a 404 header above and before the HTML page.
PHP has a one or two line function to send that 404 status code response, and it needs to be before any HTML is output.
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vg5518
Joined: May 28, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-06 21:24
Thanks g1smd. Unfortunately, the program's written in perl so probably a little more challenging than php.
Any suggestions about the multiple category pages?
Thanks ...
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