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xaviertico
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Posted: 2008-Aug-03 15:27
I recently bought a site that places well for my keywords in the searches. When I do a site query in Google I find I have over 65,000 pages. There aren't anything like 65,000 pages on my site. Can anyone tell me where do these pages come from and how are they generated? How much of a factor are they in my favorable placement in Google searches?
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Aug-03 17:14
You need to see what those URLs are. It's likely that you have Duplicate Content issues: the same pages at multiple URLs. You can probably be served content at both www and non-www URLs and/or you have session IDs on all of your URLs and/or you don't have a fixed parameter order and/or some other well-known Duplicate Content issue that needs to be fixed.
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freeflyer
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Posted: 2008-Aug-04 10:49
yep e-commerce sites are the worst for this, as all those 'list by price high to low' etc create all the duplicates.
Its a laborious task to find and remove them after the event too, although you do wildcard removal requests from google webasmter tools which sometimes helps.. ie remove all pages with *sortby? etc. After you've done this you block the same wildcard in robots.txt .
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xaviertico
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Posted: 2008-Aug-04 13:16
As I thought I mentioned in an earlier reply, which I don't see here, there are no duplicate pages. It's a cafepress store running through my own url with the CPshop perl scripts pulling in products from other Cafepress shops. What I think is happening is that the spiders are following each of the designs down through each product to the product page. The script creates a unique page url for each one. There could be 65,000 of them. I have hundreds of designs with dozens of products. What I'm wondering is, is this good or bad in terms of SEO? The site places on the first page of a Google search on half a dozen of my best key words.
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freeflyer
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Posted: 2008-Aug-04 16:58
ahh i see. Well keeping aside that you said you dont have 65000 pages, now you're saying you might, this is a long answer to go into.
But quickly, What you're saying is that a lot of the the page content (copy) is duplicated through different template designs, right? If so, will this incur a duplicate penalty?
Duplicates are all about ratios. Keep the ratio high in favour of the non-copied stuff and you should be okay. You wont get penalised for 'some' copied content if there is a lot of other original content on the page or in the coding. Having said that, there are other factors involved, such as site wide copied templates... tricky one really, with no definitive answer. Your site sounds trouble.. glad i'm not doing it 
But, quick tip, instead of worrying about something which sounds impossible to rectify, concentrate on creating some additional unique landing pages for a lot of your products keyterms, and let them do the job of catching your traffic as opposed to the products pages.
[ Message was edited by: freeflyer 08/04/2008 09:15 am ]
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xaviertico
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Posted: 2008-Aug-04 17:17
Thank you, freeflyer, my template copy is minimal. The great majority of content on each templated page comes from the source where I am picking up those products. Thanks for your input on this. I appreciate it greatly.
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vanachte
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Posted: 2008-Aug-26 22:20
put your site in your profile, would make it much easier to help you here.
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