How can i stop such links being indexed
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Hi,
How can i stop such links being indexed
The first link is what i want to stop indexed. We have 1,000's of people writing articles and the below URl shows how many articles each did
http://www.somename.com/article/15633
But this is the URl which shows the exact articlehttp://www.Somename.com/article/step-step-installation-ibm-lotus-notesAs both start as thishttp://www.Somename.com/article/How can i set noindex? Should we set for each URL manually one by oneThanks
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Is it always the same number (15633)? Are those pages dynamic or static? If they are static yes, you will need to add the canonical and noindex meta to each page. If they are dynamic just in one page while build the code to display the appropriate canonical href and NOT to show the noindex when the user is seeing the page you actually want indexed.
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If i have 1,000's of such links
http://www.somename.com/article/15633
Should i add the noindex to all of them one by one
Any specific way to handle this on bulk pages
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If I got it right, what you need to do is add a canonical tag to the definitive version of the URL (the one you want indexed): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en
Plus a meta noindex to those that you don't want to have indexed: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html
Hope that helps!
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