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Will google treat these differently?
Hello,
If I have a website with the address http://www.info.com/
and the default page for loading the website is:
http://www.info.com/Default.aspx
Should I get backlinks for the URL http://www.info.com/ OR http://www.info.com/Default.aspx?
Which is better in general?
I'm asking because I see that all my links are directed to http://www.info.com/ and I have PR4, and when I use the url http://www.info.com/Default.aspx I have PR0
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http:// www . info. com / this url is very user friendly from SEO point of view because if you use http:// www . info. com / or /index.aspx for link back that may create a Cloaking which is good for your site ..
that's my personal opinion .. correct me if i am wrong because i have just 3 months exp. in it ..
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I use http://www.info.com/
I redirect any other to it with a 301 redirect such as http://info.com/ or http://www.info.com/index.html
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Originally Posted by orwein
I would like to rephrase my question:
If I get external links to link to:
http://www.info.com/
http://www.info.com/Default.aspx
http://www.info.com/Default.aspx?aff=123
Will it be considered by google as the same page for all of these?
Thanks
No, Google will treat it as three different pages and your PR will decrease because it divide it in to three pages and content duplicasy issue will also concern
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this is good way to redirect your page but if you are not using 301 rule then never make different Url for same domain .Google will see this and will panelize you this is url canonicalization never do that
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Well first off, 301 of the second two versions to the first is definitely best practice, so I'd go that way. However, Google likely recognizes that it's the same URL and will attribute all links to any of the three to the "main" one it picks out from its index. Here's an excerpt from their recent post on their Webmaster blog (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html):
1. When we detect duplicate content, such as through variations caused by URL parameters, we group the duplicate URLs into one cluster.
2. We select what we think is the "best" URL to represent the cluster in search results.
3. We then consolidate properties of the URLs in the cluster, such as link popularity, to the representative URL.
Here's how this could affect you as a webmaster:
* In step 2, Google's idea of what the "best" URL is might not be the same as your idea. If you want to have control over whether www.example.com/skates.asp?color=black&brand=riedell or www.example.com/skates.asp?brand=riedell&color=black gets shown in our search results, you may want to take action to mitigate your duplication. One way of letting us know which URL you prefer is by including the preferred URL in your Sitemap.
* In step 3, if we aren't able to detect all the duplicates of a particular page, we won't be able to consolidate all of their properties. This may dilute the strength of that content's ranking signals by splitting them across multiple URLs.
One final note: If you're going to redirect
http://www.info.com/Default.aspx?aff=123, make sure you capture the aff parameter server side prior to the redirect otherwise you'll have some unhappy affiliates.