Anyone ever have this problem with Google?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by SeoVeteran33, Jul 20, 2008.

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    Somehow google has taken it upon themselves to index my site's pages multiple times.

    For example:

    www.mysite.com/url-path-to-the-video.html
    www.mysite.com/url_path_to_the_video.html

    Never happened before but all of a sudden google has decided to put underscores where hyphens should be and they count it as 2 separate pages. Obviously this will be considered duplicate content.

    No penalties have been enforced yet but I don't want to wait around for that to happen.

    What can I do?
     
    SeoVeteran33, Jul 20, 2008 IP
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    Maybe submit a new sitemap.xml and use a robots.txt file to disallow the urls you don't want to be crawled/indexed?

    Never seen that before, but just the other day (and it hasn't happened since) my homepage (index) appeared twice in search results for the same keyword - once on P1 and once on P2. Weird.
     
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