NYCPHP Meetup

[Michael B Allen]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Rob Marscher
<rmarscher at beaffinitive.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
>> Meaning Google was indexing the same exact page
>> through two slightly different URLs.
>>
>> I now generate the pages separately with one containing <meta
>> name="robots" content="noindex"/> (which unfortunately has to be
>> index.html because the other page has good external links) so
>> hopefully that will clear up any penalty for duplicate content.
>
> Take a look at <link rel="canonical" href="put the primary url for the content here" /> and put that in all of your pages with the same content.
>
> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Hi Rob and James,

This is very informative. I have replaced the meta tag with <link
rel="canonical" href="/primary.html"/>. Hopefully that will clear
things up.

Thanks,
Mike