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Google Indexing Feedburner Links???
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I just noticed that for lots of the articles on my website, there are two results in Google's index. For instance:
http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/articles/tools-for-creating-wordpress-plugins.html
and
Now my Feedburner feed is set to "noindex" and it's always been that way. The canonical tag on the webpage is set to:
rel='canonical' href='http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/articles/tools-for-creating-wordpress-plugins.html' />
The robots tag is set to:
name="robots" content="index,follow,noodp" />
I found out that there are scrapper sites that are linking to my content using the Feedburner link.
So should the robots tag be set to "noindex" when the requested URL is different from the canonical URL? If so, is there an easy way to do this in Wordpress?
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Hi Stephane
I also do not see duplicate pages indexed in Google. Not this page: http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/articles/tools-for-creating-wordpress-plugins.html or any others searching the few pages of results on a site: search.
Perhaps it was a temporary thing were some got indexed. I've seen that happen on occasion, and then they get removed.
If you're still seeing otherwise definitely feel free to chime back in, and provide screenshots or an example query.
Thanks!
-Dan
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I was trying to see how fast Google was indexing new content on my site (quite fast, about 15 seconds).
So I just searched "site:mywebsite.com" and two results came up for some pages.
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Why do you believe that the second page is indexed? What was your search query?
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Why does google shows duplicate results for the same page then?
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Long as you have the canonical tag set up, you should be fine. If they link to the url with the feedburner variables attached, it is the equivalent of linking straight to your actual post page.
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