About NOFOLLOW tag for SEOmoz analysis

[nuxeo]

Hi all,

Another issue while trying to resolve all the duplicate content SEOmoz reports to me. May be some of you guys can help:

I have a dynamic error page on our website, generated in case of error, that can happen on many urls. Of course that one should not be indexed.

I added the following tag on the HEADER:

name="robots" content="NOODP,NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" />

To me this should prevent from having this page indexed, but also from having this page reported by SEOmoz analyzer as duplicate content.

Any hints?

[nuxeo]

The error appear on a set of URLs that are not valid, and our CMS result an error (a bit like a 404 except that it is not a 404 but a url with bad parameters)

So all these url goes to the same error/warning page dynamically generated by the CMS but there is not a redirect. Something that can happen for instance on access denied for protected content.

My bet was to place this

<meta < span="">name="robots" content="NOODP,NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" /> on this page.</meta <>

SEOmoz tools still report the error of duplicate content.

I could of course also set a canonical but I have no idea of which URL to use for it.

Exemple of link:

http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/events/jan2011training-boston/moreinfo

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Sorry, I'm a little confused. Does the error page appear on the same URL of the page, or on it's own set of URLs.

In theory, the solution you described should work. I might also add a canonical to the head pointing to a single error URL.

That said, I'd love to take a look at it. If you'd like, feel free to share your site/URL, or private message me and I can take a look at the campaign.