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4/4/2007 4:21 AM
 
Simon Toulson

Joined: 5/14/2004
Posts: 156
Hey JK,
Great articles thanks.  Your article on duplicate content makes a lot of sense.  Looking at the google bot help, they suggest that using something like Disallow: /*Login/Default.aspx$ will filter out all occurences of the login screens on the DNN portals at your root.  Do you know if this works?
 
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4/4/2007 5:16 AM
 
Oscar Martin

www.bestwebsites.co.nz
Joined: 3/24/2004
Posts: 419
Caroig wrote
Looking at the google bot help, they suggest that using something like Disallow: /*Login/Default.aspx$ will filter out all occurences of the login screens on the DNN portals at your root.  Do you know if this works?


Hi, yes according to the google webmaster help, you can use wild cards in your robots.txt. However, the problem is that wildcards are not part of the official robots.txt specification - so only google will understand your robots.txt.  Yahoo, MSN and others wont know what to do.. So I dont really recommend using wildcards. 

You could look at using the Ventrian friendly url provider, that rewrites the login url quite nicely as /login.aspx (so all pages with the login control will point to only one login page, which removes duplication).  But - changing to a new url rewrite means different urls, which means probable loss of the rankings for the existing urls.  Before changing urls you need to setup redirection from the old url to the new url.  Sorry, but SEO isnt easy ;)

JK

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4/4/2007 5:36 AM
 
Simon Toulson

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Thanks JK, that makes sense.
My main worry is multiple urls pointing to the same portal.  Most of my portals need a country domain and a .com.  I'm assuming that this will kill rankings and I'm looking at a local redirector to fix the problem
 
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4/4/2007 11:46 AM
 
Alex Shirley


Joined: 1/30/2006
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Would you say the dotnetnuke website is a shining example here?
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/robots.txt

Cheers...

Alex Shirley
 
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4/4/2007 5:52 PM
 
Oscar Martin

www.bestwebsites.co.nz
Joined: 3/24/2004
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NukeAlexS wrote

Would you say the dotnetnuke website is a shining example here?
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/robots.txt

Cheers...



The DotNetNuke robots.txt doesnt stop yahoo and msn and others from indexing all the /ctl/ pages - so there will be duplicated content.  But I dont think yahoo, msn etc punish duplicated content as much as google does.

Also DotNetNuke is a large well established site with very good PR - so when the search engine sees that DotNetNuke's terms and conditions are nearly exactly the same as your terms and conditions, they will know that it was your site that did the copying.

Excluding /admin/,  /App_GlobalResources/, /bin/ and etc is a very good idea ... you should exclude anything where it doesnt make sense to have it indexed.

JK

We do DotNetNuke and Search Engine Optimization
- see our site at www.bestwebsites.co.nz
You know your website is cool, so why not let your users help you by spreading the word on social networking sites - get the DotNetNuke Social Bookmarks Module with 57 different ways to add social bookmarks to your site ... or download the FREE demo right now
 
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