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A New Kind of Duplicate Content - GoogleBot Random Form Crawl

May
23

Michael VanDeMar highlights how a website lost an important page to duplication across a new not so important page, which was added to the Google index by Google filling out forms.

If you have limited PageRank and a Google accessible form or search box you may want to block them from indexing output URLs via a robots noindex meta tag or your robots.txt file.

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by Aaron Wall

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May 23, 2008

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Hey Aaron. :)

Just to clarify, the site that lost the ranking page to the poorer ranking dupe wasn't a client of mine. I saw it happen to my site and went to see if it was a fluke or a pattern, and I found his site as well.

mvandemar on May 24, 2008 07:42 AM

Will update it. Sorry on the Michael.

But maybe he will read your post and hire you ;)

Aaron Wall on May 24, 2008 07:44 AM

Do duplicate keyword lists within a same domain count against you?

aurelius@global... on May 25, 2008 12:48 AM

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