Joomla -Limitstart
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hey there,
I am faceing problem with dublicate contents because of limitstart (yup..i am using joomla)
I can get rid off these duplicates by adding canonical but there are a lot (about 100 duplicates)
I am thinking to add to my robots.txt the bellow code:
Disallow: /?limitstart=
Will do this the trick and get rid off all these duplicates errors?
Thanks in advance
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Hello, did you know how to fix this?
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Yep that should work as far as Google is concerned!
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Thanks a lot for your answer.
So what i am doing is selectin (For the parameter limitstart) in the question: "Does this parameter change page content seen by the user?" the answer "No. Doesnt affect page content" ?
am i correct?
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I am not familiar with Joomla or limitstart, but if all the dups use that parameter, adding it to your Robot.txt will get rid of the duplicate content. The problem is that then you don't get SEO credit for links that contain that parameter.
I would suggest adding the limitstart parameters to your URL parameters in Google Webmaster tools. That way you let Google know to just ignore the parameter when it sees it.
URL Parameters are located in Webmaster Tools under Crawl. Hope this helps!
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