[pmwiki-users] Group home pages indexed twice in search engines

[Roman]

On 10/28/06, Roman <romat2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:07:53AM +0200, Roman wrote:
> > > On 10/27/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > >On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:43:57PM +0200, Roman wrote:
> > > >> I've noticed that group home pages of my site are indexed twice in
> > > >> search engines - as http://server/Group/HomePage and
> > > >> http://server/Group. SEO and search engine guidelines don't recommend
> > > >> it (for example Google says in webmaster guidelines: "Don't create
> > > >> multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate
> > > >> content.").
> > > >>
> > > >> The only place where I have non-qualified group links is in skin tmpl,
> > > >> where it is defined the same way as in pmwiki default skin:
> > > >>
> > > >> <div class='pagegroup'><a href='{$ScriptUrl}/{$Group}'>{$Group}</a>
> > > >/</div>
> > > >>
> > > >> I would like to have something like
> > > >>
> > > >> <div class='pagegroup'><a
> > > >> href='{$ScriptUrl}/{$GroupHomePage}'>{$Group}</a> /</div>
> > > >>
> > > >> Can anybody help to define $GroupHomePage page variable?
> > > >
> > > >Normally PmWiki returns a redirect when a page is requested
> > > >without a full pagename -- i.e., turning a request for
> > > >http://server/Group into a redirect to http://server/Group/HomePage.
> > >
> > > I know, but some search engines, particularly Yahoo, probably does not
> > > take it into account. Even if I publish sitemap for them with only
> > > fully qualified pagenames.
> >
> > I don't understand.  If the server returns a redirect that sends
> > http://server/Group to http://server/Group/HomePage, then there's only
> > one page that has indexable content, and that's the one with the full url.
> >
>
> I don't understand either :-) Maybe that search robot first finds all
> links, stores them as they are and later gets contents without
> considering redirection.
>
> I just verified on Yahoo that all group homepages are also indexed as
> http://server/Group.
>
> Roman

You can check it with pmwiki.org.

When you search for "pmwiki.org Cookbook", you get

www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook

and when you search for "pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook" you get

www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook

Roman