301 duplicate content dynamic url
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I have a number of pages that appear as duplicate titles in google webmaster. They all have to do with a brand name query. I want to 301 these pages since I'm going to relaunch my new website on wordpress and don't want to have 404s on these pages. a simple 301 redirect doesn't work since they are dynamic urls.
here is an example:
/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=brand%3Amim+pi%3A&page=2&sort=relevance
/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=mim+pi&page=3&sort=relevance
/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=mim+pi&page=5&sort=relevance
should all be 301 to the original page that I want to remain indexed:
/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html
I have a lot of these but for different queries. Should I do a 301 on each of them to avoid having 404s when I change my site to wordpress?
Thanks
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I can't believe it but it worked! I've been trying to fix this for days....Thanks so much for you help!
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It's really going to be a bit complex to get this done right. But based your example above, it looks like you just want to redirect anything with a query string back to the base url.
There's a discussion specifically about that right here:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3203401.htm
You could start with this code and refine it from there:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1? [R=301,L]Good luck.
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Thanks Marek, I know how to do a simple 301 redirect, which the generator creates but it doesn't work for a dynamic url : http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=brand%3Amim+pi%3A&page=2&sort=relevance to http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html
Any idea how to do this with a dynamic url?
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Thanks for your reply. I'm actually going to relaunch a new site and want to get rid of these duplicate pages. I don't have access to these duplicated pages to put the noindex.
Thought of doing a 301 since these pages will be eliminated with the new website. Any idea how to do a 301 for a dynamic url?
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I setup the url parameter tool yesterday blocking out these pages but my concern is that when I relaunch my website I'll have lots of 404s.
I thought of also doing the 301 redirect for pages listed in google webmaster as duplicate pages but I can't figure out the right script. A simple 301 redirect won't work because its a dynamic url.
Do you know how to setup a dynamic 301? For example: http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html?q=brand%3Amim+pi%3A&page=2&sort=relevance
redirected to: http://www.dashinfashion.com/kidsfashionnetherlands/mimpi.html
Thanks!
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Hi,
Your title for all these pages is:
<title>Mim Pi Netherlands Holland Dutch Clothes Girls Clothes Girls Dresses Baby Clothes Kids Fashion Mim Pi Children's Clothing Girls Fashion Designer</title>
and it is the same. In my opinion if you can not differentiate titles the best solution is to "noindex" search queries pages.
Marek
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Have you seen the URL parameter tool in Google Webmaster Tools? It's made just to handle these kinds of situations:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687
But, there's no reason you can't setup redirects for all of these URLs, but it's probably going to be time consuming to figure out all of the possible URL combinations that you have and where to redirect them to.
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