Duplicate Content Issue
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SEOMOZ is giving me a number of duplicate content warnings related to pages that have an email a friend and/or email when back in stock versions of a page.
I thought I had those blocked via my robots.txt file which contains the following...
Disallow: /EmailaFriend.asp
Disallow: /Email_Me_When_Back_In_Stock.asp
I had thought that the robot.txt file would solve this issue. Anyone have any ideas?
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Hi Anver not all crawlers act the same, but in theory your blocks should work you can test it at phpWeby.com with different user agents..
Just an FYI I just hit
...kis.com/EmailaFriend.asp?ProductCode=HO_Wakeskis
And was told it was able to be crawled by line 1 of robots.txt
Looking at your robots.txt file I see user-agent:* listed twice.
Also another solution in addition to blocking with robots.txt would be to include the rel="canonical" tag to the root page therefor pointing all dynamic urls back to EmailaFriend.asp
Hope that helps,
Don
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