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#245189 - 08/26/11 12:27 AM Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow
jcbereznay Offline
stranger 		Registered: 04/25/09
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Has anyone else been negatively impacted by Google Panda here? I just found out that thousands of URL's that are associated to showprofile and showday were indexed by Google and I can't figure out how to get them No Index, No Followed without putting that Robots META in the header of all pages in the forum and killing the whole thing.

I tried searching and didn't see any threads about Panda, so posting here. I'm running version 7.5.

Any advice is much appreciated, thanks!
-Chris
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#245190 - 08/26/11 02:00 AM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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I think this is a question to ask a some SEOs about, because I'm not sure if you should be getting penalized for those pages. Generally google is pretty smart about knowing what a message board is and not penalizing you for those pages. Let me ask around about this.

If you want to limit those pages you need to make a robot.txt file to specify what you don't want indexed.

http://tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/
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#245192 - 08/26/11 03:38 AM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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#245195 - 08/26/11 01:38 PM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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Nice Gizmo.
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#246376 - 10/18/11 11:34 PM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
jcbereznay Offline
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Thanks so much Gizmo, that has helped tremendously.

Is there a Google Panda thread going in here that I missed where folks are discussing issues, challenges and potential solutions with regard to this update?

Now it appears I'm struggling with a number of duplicate title errors when using Webmaster Tools. It seems there are multiple URL's for each post and I'm wondering if there's any way to get this down to one per thread (and de-index the others.)

Can someone point me to the right forum to ask this question? I have to think there are many others that have been affected and are trying to resolve these issues.

Thanks!
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#246379 - 10/19/11 01:46 AM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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I haven't really mucked around in the webmaster tools lately (been really sick for starters); I'll need to login tomorrow (my brother is moving back at like 4 so I'll try to play around before then) and see if anything is weird.
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#246380 - 10/19/11 06:13 AM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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Just for example's sake, here's what Webmaster Tools is reporting. I have 1,002 of these "Duplicate Title" errors. On this particular thread, the same page is being indexed 5 times! To Google this looks like duplicate title and content.

Page Title: TM SuperTri adjustments - The Gallery | A golf forum at GolfGearReview.com

URLS:
/fo​rum​/ub​bth​rea​ds.​php​/to​pic​s/4​036​0/2​/TM​_Su​per​Tri​_ad​jus​tme​nts
/fo​rum​/ub​bth​rea​ds.​php​/to​pic​s/4​036​0/T​M_S​upe​rTr​i_a​dju​stm​ent​s
/fo​rum​/ub​bth​rea​ds.​php​/to​pic​s/4​037​7/2
/fo​rum​/ub​bth​rea​ds.​php​/to​pic​s/4​042​1/2
/fo​rum​/ub​bth​rea​ds.​php​/to​pic​s/4​048​4/R​e_T​M_S​upe​rTr​i_a​dju​stm​ent​s

Maybe we can help some other folks who are having similar issues. I have to think they are out there.
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#246381 - 10/19/11 10:21 AM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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Well, unfortunately we "allow" access to URLs through many different structures; so there will always ultimately be "duplicate content" until it's handled differently...
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#246390 - 10/19/11 07:41 PM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: jcbereznay]
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Panda is aimed at sites duplicating other sites content, so you won't get penalized. However, we will look at adding nofollow and/or canonical tags to point to the preferred source within UBB.....
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#246391 - 10/19/11 08:24 PM Re: Google Panda Help - No Index No Follow [Re: UBBSystems]
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Originally Posted By: UBBSystems
However, we will look at adding nofollow and/or canonical tags to point to the preferred source within UBB.....
I was thinking 301 redirects to "proper" urls (based on config options)
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