Hi, I run a games portal and want to add the option to show a category of games in a different order. If I use /action-games/ action-games/?order=plays action-games/?order=rating Will Google only list /action-games/ + not see them as different pages with duplicate content? If not is there another way to make that happen?
You could block those extra pages via the robots.txt file. I've dealt with websites who have links to the same page but with different sorting. There never really seemed to be a problem with those pages. Perhaps Google was smart enough to realize that it was justified duplicate content. Maybe make a point of varying the page title and meta description when a different sorting option is chosen.
As van stated use your robots.txt file to prevent your pages from being indexed. In my experience google will index the same page with different php strings.
you can use robots.txt file or use noindex robots tag within header of the page which will prevent the robots from indexing those pages