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1. nickpelling
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   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi everyone,

   I'm using the latest version of the (very nice) Robota Meta plugin to mark up all my /page/NN files as "noindex,follow": this works fine for every one of them _apart from_ /page/1

   What this means is that my homepage is identical to page/1 except that the homepage has meta keywords & descriptions. But I thought the point of Robots Meta was to make sure that your homepage is unique? :-(

   It would make sense to me either (a) for /page/1 to redirect to the homepage, or (b) for /page/1 to match the "noindex" rule applied to the other /page/NN pages. Have I missed something really obvious?

   Thanks, ....Nick Pelling....

2. nickpelling
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   r/Robota/Robots *sigh*

3. nickpelling
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I should also note a little background: the problem here is that Google's spider has managed along the way to pick up copies of /page/1 , /page/2 , /page/3 all the way up to /page/27 . These (of course) duplicate content with my homepage, causing (I think) my homepage to drop several hundred places in keyword searches. :-(

   Now, I've had /page/2 through /page/27 removed (using Google Webmaster Tools' Remove URL tool, though they're still coming up in searches?), but even after that works I'll still be stuck with /page/1 as a duplicate. Just so you know!

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