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Jul 18th, 2007, 18:49
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Re: Google Gone Strange
You website is http://safehandsbabysitters.com/.
But the link to your homapage is http://safehandsbabysitters.com/index.html. http://safehandsbabysitters.com/ and http://safehandsbabysitters.com/index.html are the same page under 2 different URLs - duplicate. Some search engines now allow for this, but it could also be argued that http://www.safehandsbabysitters.com/ and http://www.safehandsbabysitters.com/index.html are also duplicates of your homepage. What you need to do immediatlley is change your links to the homepage so they point to / instead of /index.html. In the long run, use scripting to enforce the www.safehandsbabysitters.com domain instead of safehandsbabysitters.com (or vice-versa, whatever you prefer). If you want a book or a checklist, the stuff I said above is plenty to make a huge difference. Just refer back to this thread... PS.:
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Last edited by spinal007; Jul 18th, 2007 at 18:52.        
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Jul 19th, 2007, 08:17
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Re: Google Gone Strange
The duplicate page thing is a really confussing thing to me I don't know how to fix the problem and don't understand where the problems lies. Is it with my hosts, with my site, I'm I missing a bit - google webmaster tools doesn't report and error so I'm a bit at loss to know what or how to fix it. I understand what you mean but a fix - not a clue?
Dave Last edited by DRWEB; Jul 19th, 2007 at 09:06.
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Jul 19th, 2007, 12:09
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DrWEB find this code:
When you landed on your page you landed on http://safehandsbabysitters.com/. If you left the homepage and then came back to the homepage the address was http://safehandsbabysitters.com/index.html. The exact same page but two urls. That's duplicate content. Change that link above on ALL pages.
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Jul 19th, 2007, 12:19
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Lchad - thank you very much I've made the change now and it works as you said. Hopefullt that's got rid of my duplicate page problem it looks like it has.
Cheers Dave
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Jul 19th, 2007, 12:23
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No problem... glad to help!
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Jul 19th, 2007, 12:24
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Linda:
Thank you thank you thank you! We spend so much time explaning this now-a-days, we really need a sticky...
Last Blog Entry: Random String in Javascript (Apr 21st, 2008)
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Jul 19th, 2007, 12:30
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I have to say I agree coz the whole concept baffled me but now I've sorted it (DOH) I understand - I tried Googling it coz I don't like bugging but nothing.
All in all I see what effect a simple thing like this can have on a site and how easy it is to put right. Dave
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