By Pushkar Gaikwad on

I am using Drupal which has page names as example.com/node/21 but I am also using url rewrite so same page becomes example.com/this-is-page . Now Google see these as two pages with same content, putting both in supplement. Infact my whole site is under supplement results. What can I do ? I am sure someone must have solved this problem.

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giorgosk’s picture

giorgosk
Location Chios, Greece 🇬🇷
commented

I'll just have a look,

and by supplemental you mean it was first in the regular results and now supplemental right ?

what makes you so sure that google penalized you for duplicate content ?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Try to block the access of the robots to all /node/ url with robots.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

uNeedStuff’s picture

uNeedStuff commented

Hi, I don't know anything about Drupal... but I think this module was written just to take care of that problem.
http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

Shari

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Pushkar Gaikwad commented

I THINK ...THIS IS IT....Let me try it and see. Others please also comment and share your views if possible

To others, well my site is new and immediately the pages went into supplemental, even the once with original content. I have never seen this and I am assuming that duplicate may have role in it. ANyway even if it is not the thing which put my pages into supplemental, still I would like to solve this issue right now itself.

Regards

EDIT - the module page is showing it's broken for 4.7.4 but I am using that version. So Should I install this module ? I don't want my site to complete become disfunctinal or broke down internally. ?

Pushkar Gaikwad’s picture

Pushkar Gaikwad commented

installed the module but can not see any option of doing anything related to path redirection. Ofcourse redirection is not working either. I have installed latest dev version. Any comments on what shoud I do now ?

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giorgosk
Location Chios, Greece 🇬🇷
commented

I have installed it myself and and its working out of the box as intended

any node that has an alias in admin/build/path
will be redirected to the alias (using a 301 redirect good for SEO and preventing duplicate content)

so there is no need to configure anything

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darrenlambert commented

I have just installed this module, for Drupal version 4.7.2, and it works fine. Thanks for the info.

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