Comments on: Simple things to do on Your Joomla site to avoid basic Duplicate Content

By: Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Herbert-Jan van Dinther — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:15:17 +0000

@barang: Yes that could work as well that way you could leave the icons, but think about what is good for your readers, how many times have you used a pdf article link? E-mail oke, but pdf?

P.s. Since I wrote this post in 2007 for Joomla 1.0.x Google has become a lot better in indexing Joomla sites and version 1.5.x has nofollowed some of the icon links, to bad they did not gove them a noidex as well….

By: barang antik

barang antik — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:18:32 +0000

aha , thank you , i have done what you told , by the way , i read in some article that we can do it another way too, like modify robot.txt and adding text like :
Disallow: /index.php?view=article*&format=pdf
Disallow: /index.php?view=article*&print=1*
Disallow: /index.php?option=com_mailto*
Disallow: /component/mailto/*
what do you think about that?

By: Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Herbert-Jan van Dinther — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:27:24 +0000

@baranq: Yes, go into your article manager and select preferences (top right hand menu icon) there you can disable all PDF icons for your site.

By: barang antik

barang antik — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:43:57 +0000

ouch , i already have 60 article with pdf , etc links on it , is there any way where i can disable it globally?

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:06:47 +0000

The pages will be removed from Google index by themself, but It can easily take months before youll se the changes.

As suggested you can use Google Webmaster tool to manually remove URLS when they have already been blocked by robots. If you got pages with over 2000 pages indexed like I do, its a lot of work to do so manually.

By: Joomla Duplicate Content and Dynamic URLs here is Google's view

Joomla Duplicate Content and Dynamic URLs here is Google's view — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:12:10 +0000

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By: Pathos

Pathos — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:30:54 +0000

@tekno boy:You have a right 404 error code on pages that are no longer there, so the pages will disseaper over time.

If you want to speed it up a little, you could use Google webmaster tools to remove the page faster.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
In the Tool section of your website overview you can request removal of each url.

The site will not get any penalty because you are improving your site.

By: tekno_boy

tekno_boy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:28:57 +0000

I’ve had a site up for about three months with those duplicates, how long before they disappear from google? Do they disappear by themselves (or does one have to do something)? and lastly, will the site get some kind of permanent penalty re-page rank?

Thanks for all your great help.

By: nanokultur

nanokultur — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:36:28 +0000

Helloe, 1.3 of sh404sef has the option to do a noindex on pdf and so on..

But I agree, in my early times, I hat dups, too.was a pain to get that out of google!

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:20:35 +0000

Great answer, thanks so much! So yeah good point, NoFollow not the same as Noindex.

As you suggested, I guess the solution would be to make a clean CSS print template.

Thanks for your help! Before I make a decision what I will do I need to try printing a page of the site!

Thank you!

David

By: Pathos

Pathos — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:39:37 +0000

@David

Yes, please diable the print function, because Joomla does not use a print css file to send the Article to the printer.

Instead it creates a new page without the normal template around it.
Thus creating duplicate content for search engines.

Also for Joomla 1.5 I suggest disabling it, also for the PDF file.
Because a NoFollow is not equil to a NoIndex..
Further more I don’t see any use for a PDF version of a Page…

As for Printing, IE, Firefox and Other Browsers will print you page quit nicely, and If you really want to have a Clean page print, make sure you have a print.css file in you template!

Then you will have a great printing option!

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:19:48 +0000

Is it really necessary to diable the print function? Does this not just make the browers load up the page with linked to a different CSS?

In version 1.5 of Joomla, there is no need to disable PDFs as they have the no follow attribute built into the link, however the print buttons do not have that attribute built in.

So whats your advice, do you recommend disabling the print button on Joomla 1.5 sites then?

From an accessibility point of view and usability point of view, its really nice having a print option!