Everyone has been talking about 301 Redirect but no one really bothers to explains the purpose and method of doing so. Duplicated contents can be caused internally within the website's server and programming issues. I have wrote an article which clearly explains 301 redirect, 8 different urls for a single page and ?PHPSESS problems. I have also included the best solution to each problem. You should read this article is you do not understand any of the followings: Do you really know 301 Redirect? Do you know that a single page can have up to 8 unique url address? Do you know ?PHPSESS can cause duplicated contents? Read the whole article here : Complete Guide To Eliminating Duplicated Contents. It is too long to upload the article here. So please pardon me.
That article would of fit in a thread perfectly, nice try but this is nothing but spam on the forum. If you truly wanted to help people you would post all the information here. I wish moderators would crack down more on this, it is getting rather annoying. Side note, using robots.txt and robots meta tag is just as effective and much more simple to prevent duplicate content and still keep your internal pages. Remember use robots.txt and robots meta before using 301 redirect, redirect is to redirect to a new page, not to prevent duplicate content.
Your 301 redirect description isn't the preferred method. You describe redirecting an entire site to a new domain. When you should be redirecting specific, individual pages to the their new counterparts - each page should have their own redirect.
You should redirect duplicate content at all, you should be blocking it from being indexed all together using robots.txt and meta robots.
I find that the article is long and this is why i rather not post it here. i can see that you do not much understand 301 redirect, robots.txt or even robot meta tag. Redirect is not only redirecting to a new page, it can be done to prevent duplicate contents caused by unique url addresses. http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/index.php refers to the same page but they are unique in the eyes of search engines which becomes duplicates. Robots.txt as you mentioned is used to guide spiders and inform them which area is inaccessible. In other words to prevent access to areas you do not wish the spiders to crawl. robots meta tag is used to control the spiders into indexing, noindex, nosnippet, noodr and so on. Yes you can tell the robots not to index a particular page but why waste time doing so when it can be done with robots.txt or .htaccess? Come on Mr Know It All, get your facts right before you bash a thread. You do not even know much about 301 redirect and you says that it only does redirect. OMG. You wish me to post the entire article here? Look at how long it is. It will look more spammy if i do it.
You can expand it further by using just changing it a bit : Redirect permanent /contact-us.php http://www.newdomain.com/contact-us.php This will do the trick of redirecting pages by pages
Why get so mad if your not spamming? You created an article that has been created 1,000,000 times before you already, and ones that are much better in details, descriptions and usage. Duplicate content issues with lets say blogs should always be handled with robots.txt and meta tags, never 301 redirect unless your modding your URLs. You article is just another attempt to provide content that is not unique and found on countless other websites. Then in an attempt to get backlinks in a futile attempt to boost rankings you post it in this forum, your fooling no one. Also, for someone running a seo website design website
Do you really know 301 redirect? My answer to you: We use redirect to direct existing link juices to new pages. Secondly, this article is unique and i am not only writing 301 redirect, i included phpsess and the 8 possible duplicated urls. I welcome anyone to bash the thread if it is of not much use but get your facts right. It is like you do not know the taste of curry and you are telling others you love it and you know it all. If my help is useless to you, don't use it. If you can find me 1,000,000 articles on the same unique content like mine, i thumbs up for you. noob
Noob? How old are you 15? Take a look at your thread topic "Complete Guide To Removing Duplicate Contents". Enough said, now you can return to the spammer side of the pool. Your agree and senseless replies just further my cause of this being a spam thread, if you can't take opinons on your articles don't post them. The only newbie thing in this whole thread is your article, which is poorly written & constructed, plain and simple. Go educated yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection
"Opinon" Come on, you start you "opinon" by calling my thread a spam. Secondly, you are giving opinons when you do not even understand the real value. I will jolly well accept your opinon if you did not attempt to call me a spammer from the start. Your self-based knowledge is just telling me that you know nuts about it and start searching wikipedia frantically when i informed you the real effects of 301 redirect and the main purpose of robots.txt and robot meta tag. I shan't argue with *"you" on this. *ref "You" refers to "Know It All Basher"
Most of your posts are spam, I reviewed your past posts in your profile and most of them just point to a URL on your site, that is called forum spamming. The simple fact that you refer to 301 redirect to "link juice" shows you have no real concept on what server side redirecting is for, plain and simple. That is why I linked you to wikipedia, so maybe you could learn something, but your arrogance just provails and proves you are nothing more than an angry kid mad that you were called out and shown what you are.... A forum spammer that is spamming his content that is not unique, nothing new, and of no use to anyone on this forum. You honestly have the shortest article on server side redirecting I've seen to date. You can contiune with your insults, considering I'm one of many peoples opinions on DP people trust you just make yourself look more foolish and silly. You should also learn how to use mod-rewrite and actually make your SEO design website look like you know SEO. You also claim you need apache to use 301 redirect when IIS has isapi rewrite that can do the same thing, another point that proves you know almost nothing with it comes to server side redirecting or re-writing.
Hey, I'm bored at work and there are zero IT support tickets right now, so I really have nothing better to do.
come on .htaccess is apache tech. isapi rewrite is a separte issue that deals with windows tech. Please stop placing words into my mouth. Read things properly. I do not need mod-rewrites for my urls because it does not serve my main purpose. Things are done to serve their purposes and if they do not, i don't see a need for it.
True enough. But it simply does not feel good when "some expert" tries their ultimate best in devaluing someone and their site.
Firstly, I made some changes to the <head> section in my WordPress template: <?php if(is_single() || is_page() || is_home()) { ?> <meta name="robots" content="all" /> <?php } else { ?> <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex,noarchive,follow,noodp" /> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,noarchive,follow" /> <meta name="msnbot" content="noindex,noarchive,follow" /> <?php }?> Because WordPress content is generated dynamically, this tells the search engines which pages should be in, and which should be out, based on the type of page. So, basically, if this is an post page, another single page, or the home page then go for it; otherwise follow the appropriate rule for Google, MSN or other spiders
Yes, thats the correct way to prevent duplicate content, don't forget to use robots.txt as well, its like using birth control and a condom, double protection I've seen instances where crawlers don't follow the meta tags or the robots.txt when by themselves. I've not seen a report yet on someone using both methods still get a page crawled. Anyone seen this?