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Topic: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

Hi,

I want to refer to http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … urls-bug/. This topic is closed, but the properly problem isn't solved. Please take a look @

http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … mburg.html

and

http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum/post12.html#p12

The requested username is forum - no password needed.

These links are placed on http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … ungen.html

At first view, all seems to be ok, all links are working, no problems so far.

BUT:

http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … mburg.html

and

http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum/post12.html#p12

are exactly the same pages with the same content!! Even if you post a new answer, you are referred to an URL like http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum/post15.html#p15 but it MUST be an file based URL like http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … g.html#p15

If you subscribed a topic, the URL in the mail is like http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … .html#p12, too...

The date & time links of the several postings (09.02.2009 16:46:54) are also linking like http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … .html#p12.

It's horrible doublicate content!


When using url folder- or file-based URL-schemes, all URLs must be the same scheme to prevent doublicate content. This is definitively indispensable!

  • Slavok
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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

blinks wrote:

BUT:

http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum … mburg.html

and

http://www.affiliate-marketing.de/forum/post12.html#p12

are exactly the same pages with the same content!!

These links led to the same page, because post with id 12 is start post of topic 5.
And what are the advantages, in your opinion, of displaying post-URL with this or that URL?

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3 Reply by blinks (edited by blinks 2009-02-16 16:16)

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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

Slavok wrote:

These links led to the same page, because post with id 12 is start post of topic 5.
And what are the advantages, in your opinion, of displaying post-URL with this or that URL?

Obviously, you don't understand the problem. Does the term 'doublicate content' ring a bell with you?

Googlebot (and all other crawlers) will crawl /forum/post12.html and /forum/topic5-berichtefotos-zum-affiliatestammtisch-in-hamburg.html. What will they find?!? Exactly the same page on two differetn URLs... that's really not good. Take a look @ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en& … p;ct=title

4 Reply by MattF (edited by MattF 2009-02-17 15:24)

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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

blinks wrote:

Obviously, you don't understand the problem. Does the term 'doublicate content' ring a bell with you?

Have you examined the meta headers on both of those pages, perchance?

Btw, how the hell is anyone other than yourself supposed to look at your site when it requires authentication? I personally have absolutely no intention of registering on any site when the owner wants help. Make it public or don't post the link.

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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

MattF wrote:

Btw, how the hell is anyone other than yourself supposed to look at your site when it requires authentication? I personally have absolutely no intention of registering on any site when the owner wants help. Make it public or don't post the link.

blinks wrote:

The requested username is forum - no password needed.

6 Reply by blinks (edited by blinks 2009-02-17 17:29)

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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

MattF wrote:

Have you examined the meta headers on both of those pages, perchance?

Sure, I have: index,follow.

MattF wrote:

Btw, how the hell is anyone other than yourself supposed to look at your site when it requires authentication?

You just have to enter a username - what a drama...

MattF wrote:

I personally have absolutely no intention of registering on any site when the owner wants help.

So let it be. You do not have to register anywhere. You just have to type 'forum' for authentication. The forum isn't public yet, because of the described problem with doublicate content. Sure, I could deny robots by robots.txt, but it is not as secure as a simple htaccess-auth.

MattF wrote:

Make it public or don't post the link.

Post an answer or don't post. You are not forced to answer! I would be happy, if we could discuss the real cause of this topic and not, if a single user likes authentication or not...

7 Reply by MattF

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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

Well, how silly of me. Do remember to reprimand me next time due to me not having trudged through all of a thread instead of merely trying to read what I class as the relevant parts when seeing if my helping someone is feasible. How could I be so inconsiderate. Anyhows, I'll just saunter off and merrily not suggest anything from hereon in.

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8 Reply by andrefelipe (edited by andrefelipe 2009-04-03 05:38)

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Re: Doublicate content when using URL scheme 'file based (fancy)'

I've set the "folder based (fancy)" scheme and I'm aware that /post/ URLs have the NOINDEX atribute in their "robots" meta tags, in order to  prevent the indexing of duplicate content and consequently penalties from search engines. However, can't we get rid of this /topic/ versus /post/ thing at all?

The system should use normal /topic/ addresses along with post #ids to link to specific posts, because regular forum members don't know that linking to /post/ URLs from their sites and blogs will give the discussion no credit from search engines.

If there's a simple way to redirect /post/ links to their correspondent /topic/ ones, please let me know. smile

André Felipe

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