Sitemap and SEO

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by VRL, Nov 9, 2007.

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    My site is a large one - this is portal for vacation homes. We have a sitemap for google where my developer included every single page including pages for print and some alternative pages (that are duplicates for listings). On the site we do use "nofollow" for pages for print, should we include them to the site map? the entire duplicate content idea is confusing at times :)
     
    VRL, Nov 9, 2007 IP
  2. kmap

    kmap Well-Known Member

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  3. rcj662

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    Do not add any page that is duplicate.
     
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    There is no real need to unless those pages are very important to your user and are not easily spotted.
     
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    hi
    u can see google sitemap guidelines
     
    everythingisplanned, Nov 26, 2007 IP
  6. Special Ed

    Special Ed Active Member

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    Use your site map to tell google where to spider. It makes no sense to include page you don't want indexed in the sitemap.
     
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    Don`t add duplicate pages.
     
    Ladispoli, Nov 27, 2007 IP
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    yeah, duplicates = penalties
     
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    Duplicate content bad = dont add anything duplicate for the spiders to see
     
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    i wouldn't add any duplicate content. take out the pages that you don't want and would be considered duplicate content.
     
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