This is very important This is valid for both esyndicat and phpld, try the following: http://www.youdirectory.com/Arts http://www.youdirectory.com/arTs http://www.youdirectory.com/ARTS and so on .... 1. You will get the same content for all these pages. 2. Check the headers of those pages. You will get 200 OK which means that if google find those urls, they all will be indexed. The problem is even more serious for phpld because they use relative paths. so you will end up with urls like: http://www.youdirectory.com/arTS/Animation/ http://www.youdirectory.com/arTS/Antiques/ and so on... you will have a huge number of pages indexed by the search engines which can get you easily penalized. Am I missing something or they should really work on this? anyone can mess with your directory by simply linking to one of those wrong paths. I found a solution for esyndicat, not for phpld yet.
i dont think lower and upper case matters for a robot. www.realwd.com is still the same as www.REALWD.com so it shouldnt be considered duplicate.
it does for the uri, try this http://forums.digitalpoint.com/Showthread.php?t=295586 not found this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=295586 for this thread, it does exist The only difference is the capital S in showthread.php
I chcked dmoz, they are redirecting wrong paths like http://dmoz.org/ArtS/ to http://dmoz.org/Arts/ 302 redirecting though
Well question is should i be worried? Google has not penalized my site for ages now will it decide to do so all the sudden?
because google didn't find those wrong urls, If somebody links to one of them, google will start the crawling.
So what u mean is that if someone linked to my site using say MYSITE.com instead of mysite.com , google will think there are actually 2 sites?
mysite.com/page and mysite.com/Page are two different urls if you know!! so the problem is not the domain but the full url.
Yikes , so i need to come up with some rewrite rules to convert all capitals to small letters like u add www to non www https
- Botw are 301 redirecting those paths - Dmoz are 302 redirecting them - Dir.Google are sending 404 not found, better than 302. - Yahoo dir is not doing anything about it I am also returning a 404 not found in rakCha, but I use esyndicat, I don't know how to do it for phpld. They should come up with s solution.
Hello.. its all the same .... just make sure that when you create new catagories that the _ <----- isnt added after the word and or catagory... thx malcolm
Actually you are talking about two different problems ... Your server interprets different case file names as unique if it is Unix/Linux based. Windows servers are case insensitive. Google will try to get a file using the same case as the link ... but if your server does not return a file then it is simply marked "404 error" and dropped. Which is the correct thing to do. Don't try to fix this behavior You may introduce errors on your site, if you don't handle EVERY possible situation.
that's not true, domain.com/page and domain.com/Page are considered two different urls by apache. the problem is with the scripts. you are giving google different urls with the same content. nobody seems to be concerned
I force all autogenerated urls for my websites to be lowercase on a Linux based webserver (using .htaccess file). All manually created pages follow the same standard. It should not be all that difficult to do this for any scripts you use. You are correct in saying that domain.com/page and domain.com/Page are considered two different urls by apache. Again, this is easy enough to resolve using url rewrites.
yes that it is possible to rewrite the whole thing to lower case, but I am not sure that directory owners will do that because they will have PR0 pages until the next update, after the upcoming one. Anyways, can you please post the code you are using in .htaccess?