Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Duplicate Content
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Excerpt: To be honest, I'm not even sure this matters much anymore, but I thought I'd mention it. Like the issue with parameter ordering (?a=1&b=2 vs. ?b=2&a=1) I mentioned here, a slash at the end of a URL can pose a similar ambiguity problem. Fortunately, at least for non-rewrit ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Duplicate Content
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Excerpt: This is a question I'm currently researching. I have never looked into it before, because I haven't really used dynamic URLs for anything visible to a search engine recently; I always use mod_rewrite these days. The question goes as follows:When designing a dynamic URL and constructing it by ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Duplicate Content
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Excerpt: Unfortunately, the concept of "index" pages (index.php, Default.asp, etc.), a feature since the beginning of time on the web, causes yet another duplicate content problem. If no file name in a directory is provided to a webserver, the "index" page is typically provided by d ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Duplicate Content
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Excerpt: This is an old topic for me; one that I feel is largely ignored by the SEM community. I asked Jake Baillie of TrueLocal at an SES conference awhile back, and he suggested that breadcrumbs are trouble when it comes to duplicate content no-matter-what, and, of course, I used to work for Barry Schwartz ...
