What is the best solution for printable product pages (duplicate content)?
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What do you think is the best solution for preventing duplicate content issues on printable versions of product pages? The printable versions are identical in content.
Disallow in Robots.txt?
Meta Robots No Index, Follow?
Meta Robots No Index No Follow?
Rel Canonical?
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I think I will go with canonical.
Just a thought why would I put all the fules in a subdirectory instead of just blocking products.php?printable=Y
I guess it would be the same thing I think?
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If you don't want to do the canonical method (which is probably the best) you could always make a /print directory blocked by robots.txt and no follow the links and no-index the pages. That should work as well, but could possibly waste link juice if people ever link to the printable version.
Cheers,
Vinnie -
I second Marcus, Canonical is the way to go
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Canonical - this way, if you pick up links to the print pages the value from the links will be passed to the full version of the page.
That's my tuppence (2 cents) at least!
Cheers
Marcus
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