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# 1 - Posted by: Johan Janssens on 2008-09-19 10:39:36

Finally ! Been fighting this fight for 3 years now ... thanks for the pointer.

Re: Too Many URLs

# 2 - Posted by: Steve on 2008-09-23 14:33:51

Hi Arno

Spend a while reading Google's official blogs and you start to see that "what is" often needs to be replace with "what we'd like" or "what we're aiming for".

It took me just a couple of minutes to find at least 4 URLs for this article:

1) http://www.woofandwarp.com/joomla/32-joomla-and-duplicate-content-what-does-google-think

2) http://www.woofandwarp.com/blog/2-joomla/32-joomla-and-duplicate-content-what-does-google-think

3) http://www.woofandwarp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article=&id=32

4) http://www.woofandwarp.com/component/content/article/2-joomla/32-joomla-and-duplicate-content-what-does-google-think

Also, the article still comes up through broken URLs rather than producing a 404 page:

a) http://www.woofandwarp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article=&id=32:joomla-and-duplnt-what-does-gole-think

b) http://www.woofandwarp.com/joomla/32-joomla-and-duplicate-content-what-does-google-thinkdgddfgdfgdfgdfgdfgertergdf

... and so on. I'll be sticking with 1 URL per page.

# 3 - Posted by: Arno Zijlstra on 2008-09-23 14:51:25

Hi Steve,

Thanks for looking around, I know it's not perfect here and with Joomla! and with that link to the google blog I didn't mean to say everything was fine with Joomla! :-)

This blog is my playground so these things are great to find out and think about.

Arno

# 4 - Posted by: Barrie North on 2008-09-23 15:35:59

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/Duplicate-Titles-in-Joomla.html

# 5 - Posted by: Steve on 2008-09-23 15:36:15

Hey Arno

No problem :)

I saw another post by Google today that was equally confusing:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/update-to-our-webmaster-guidelines.html

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html

Dynamic URLs and &id= go from "good" to "bad" overnight.

# 6 - Posted by: Amy Stephen on 2008-09-28 04:12:12

If only it were Google.

The application must be able to manage multiple URLs and still treat the page the same. In Joomla!, current menu item, breadcrumbs, prev and next, Module and Template assignments all rely on the application understanding each of those URLs Steve shared are actually the same place.

I think it to be a very good goal to continue working towards a permanent, singular, pretty URL.

Re: Online unit measures conversions

# 7 - Posted by: Convert on 2008-11-03 02:02:54

I have a similar question, right now not answered. I was wondering whether google reads the blog comments text, the content in comments, to index it to search index. Because there are a lots of key words in a post comments so it would help. In other words, whether google crawlers take comments as addition to the page content.