This is a SEO question that I have not found in the issue queue.

I am using the great quicktabs module (thanks developers and maintainers!) to gather and show in a non-ajax way many nodes. I actually do this to save room in a landing page. I have verified that the source code includes all the data of all the nodes.

My questions:
1. Is this a duplication of content, or not? The quicktabs are in a panels' page and aggregates all the content of all the other nodes, but is aggregating means duplicating?
2. If yes, which should be disallowed through robots.txt - the panels page with the quicktabs or each of the nodes aggregated (using some path-prefix)?

Thanks,
Amir

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Enzomaticus’s picture

Enzomaticus commented

1) If you're using nodewords and the original nodes have the canonical tag enabled it should ensure that you don't have a duplicate content issue. Personally I would use robots.txt as well to be on the safe side, but that may not be best for you if you want the panels landing page to be found through the search engines.
2) If you're going to use robots.txt then you should disallow the panels page and not the original node - this also future proofs the issue should you pull other node content into the panels page at a later date.

My $0.02

amir simantov’s picture

amir simantov commented

Thanks Enzo, though, giving it a second thought now, I would not like the idea that the landing page is not crawled by the engines... I want the opposite! So, I rephrase the question:

Giving that I do not want to take out the quicktabs page out of robots.txt -
1. should I take out the specific nodes?
2. it there any penalty if I don't?

Thanks once again!
Amir

netw3rker’s picture

netw3rker commented
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)