indexed same page at different urls...need advice

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    My shopping cart works so that no matter what url you use, as long as you use the item url, regardless of what directory, it goes to the page. so

    /flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html
    and
    /flowers/olivia-flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html


    go to the same page.

    Google has indexed BOTH (and now I'm getting yelled at in my google webmasters dashboard. I have this situation for several items (I added the directory within 1 hour of the original items, but google visited within that time slot!!)

    I can't remove the url in webmasters because the url is still "live" by google's standards.

    If I block the original url (top) in robots.txt, will that affect google indexing the newer url (bottom)?

    Thanks!
     
    mokab, Aug 28, 2008 IP
  2. Chinchilla

    Chinchilla Peon

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    If you have a .htaccess (you should do)

    Add this line - 

    Redirect /flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html http://putyoursitehere/flowers/olivia-flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html
    Code (markup):
    That will redirect the old URL to the new.
     
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  3. Lordo

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    Chinchilla I don't think your solution will work for him as there are many pages not only this one.
    I would recommend modifying one of the rewrite rules you already have in .htaccess to eliminate one of the two rules (either the aaa/aaa-bbb.html or aaa-bbb.html).
     
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    modify .htaccess so /flowers/olivia-flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html returns 404 and only /flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html works
     
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    seomadguy Banned

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    Alsodo not forget to use the URL removal in Webmasters' Tools as well as modification of your google sitemap.
     
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  6. Lordo

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    It won't allow you unless the request returns a not found error!
     
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    If the page doesn't exist, or does a redirect it will let you remove it in WMT
     
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    I suggest this:

    redirect 301 /flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html http://putyoursitehere/flowers/olivia-flowers/blue-olivia-flowers.html
     
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    Simple way to do it would be to use the nofollow tag on the links for the urls you don't want indexed.
     
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