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Would googles indexing of flash content count towards page content?

for example I have over 7000 flash files, with 1 unique flash file per page followed by a short 2 paragraph snippet, would google count the flash as content towards the overall page?

Because at the moment I've x-tagged the roberts with noindex, nofollow and no archive to prevent them from appearing in the search engines. I'm just wondering if the google bot visits and accesses the flash file it'll get the x-tag noindex, nofollow and then stop processing.

I think this may be why the panda update also had an effect.

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I've already done away with our own embed linking facility and chosen addthis.

I'll have to read up on regexes.

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The offending link is a french blogpost.

I have a bout 2-300 various links like this where people posting on sites etc have entered incorrect urls.

What I would like to know is how do I cater for ("/.>) characters in htaccess?

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Panda update,tickled, slapped and then punched us.

I'm now weeding through crawl errors, one of them is

http://www.flasharcadegamessite.com/26226-paper-airplane-flight.html">paper airplane flight

I tried 301 this to it's proper page using

Redirect 301 /26226-paper-airplane-flight.html">paper airplane flight http://www.flasharcadegamessite.com/26226-paper-airplane-flight.html

but the server starts spitting out 500 errors.

How does one add that rule into htaccess ?

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I'm going to have to hold off on this google have done an update today which is why we've now dropped from p4 to p14. I've posted a message here

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=76830633df82fd8e&hl=en&start=1360

thanks Damien

I'm going to give this a go once my website re-appears in the search engine. After 1.5 years at number four it's decided to disappear today. I think google anticipated what I was intending to do and employed their new jedi mind tricks to de-rank me. I'll see what tommorow brings.

have a good one.

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All 100 image links on each category page are unique that each point to their respective unique pages. The only thing, is that as new image links get added to the top it can push older content onto page 2,3,4 etc. So I would say each category page is unique.

This isn't what I wanted, I've left it for so long (over a year). It's ever since google introduced that parameter thing, I used to have parameters in the urls but I've fixed that along time ago to .html pages.

Yes the pages on category page 2,3,4 etc used to rank before, but now the 2nd and subsequent pages aren't in the index. In fact if you google the 2nd, third or 4th category pages it brings up the first category page.

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on each subsequent category page it refers to the first category page

eg

/cat-page1.html has rel=canonical /cat-page1.html

/cat-page2.html has rel=canonical /cat-page1.html

/cat-page3.html has rel=canonical /cat-page1.html

etc

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So should I revert to the non canonical page structure and leave it natural?

I also forgot to mention that on the homepage I have a box of recent image links that will also appear on the each of category pages. I don't know if google sees these as duplicate links.

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A couple of years ago I used to receive a lot of traffic via my category pages but now I don't receive as much, in the past year I've modified the category pages to canonical.

I have 15 genres for the category pages, other than the most recent sorting there is no sorting available for the users on the cat pages, a recent image link added can over time drop off to page 2 of the category page, for example

mysite.com/cat-page1.html = 100 image links per page with numbered page navigation, number of cat pages 1-23. New image link can drop off to page 2.

mysite.com/dog-page1.html = 100 image links per page with numbered page navigation, number of cat pages 1-53. New image link can drop off to page 2.

mysite.com/turtle-page1.html = 100 image links per page with numbered page navigation, number of cat pages 1-2. New image link can drop off to page 2.

Now on the first page (eg mysite.com/cat-page1.html) I've set this up to rel= canonical =  mysite.com/cat-page1.html

One thing that I have noticed is the unique popup short description tooltips that I have on the image links only appears in google for the first pages of each category page, it seems to ignore the other pages. In view of this am I right in applying canonical ref or just treating it as normal pages.?

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