Same thing. There will be what "appears" to be two different pages with the
exact same content. Banning /Merchant2/ directory "should" not affect
rewritten urls via .htaccess such as SFL but don't quote me on that.
Jason
> I tried to follow the entire thread and didn't see this asked. If so, I
> apologize. What happens if your site has both SFL and normal links to the
> same page? Will this cause issues?
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Webmaster -
> Aquariumpros.com
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:20 PM
> To: Annie's Maternity Corner; Miva Merchant Users
> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>
>
> Uhm, I hope there's nothing wrong with THAT! Yeesh! We have ten domains
with
> nothing on them pointing to aquariumpros.com.
>
> Dave Hauser, President
> Aquarium Professionals Group
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Annie's
> Maternity Corner
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:10 PM
> To: Miva Merchant Users
> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>
>
> The other URLs just re-direct to my site -- they don't actually have any
> pages of their own....
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Anne Cavicchi
> Annie's
> 106 - 402 Baker ST
> Nelson, BC V1L4H8
> 250-354-2000
> www.maternitycorner.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Webmaster -
> Aquariumpros.com
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:03 AM
> To: Annie's Maternity Corner; Miva Merchant Users
> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>
>
> The way I am given to understand it, NO. Not if the content in the three
> sites is different, but that would not be mirroring. That would be
linking!
>
> If however all three of those sites sell the same products, have the same
> product descriptions and the same categories (are in effect the same
store),
> then yes, according to Google, that could hurt you.
>
> The article posted in this thread also hints that Google has tied into DNS
> registration DBs and are looking at who owns sites that appear to have the
> same content.
>
>
>
> Dave Hauser, President
> Aquarium Professionals Group
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Annie's
> Maternity Corner
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:39 PM
> To: Miva Merchant Users
> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>
>
> So, if I have anniesbaby.com and rebelmaternity.com etc pointing to
> maternitycorner.com that's going to hurt me in google???
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Anne Cavicchi
> Annie's
> 106 - 402 Baker ST
> Nelson, BC V1L4H8
> 250-354-2000
> www.maternitycorner.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Aquapro
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:25 AM
> To: Bill Gilligan; Miva Merchant Users
> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>
>
> Just wanted to post this after FINALLY hearing back from Google.
>
> We had almost 55,000 pages in the Google index from our Search Engine
Killer
> pages, CBS store map pages, plus all the static content pages from the
> informational side of our site.
>
> Now down to 904 and dropping. After quite a few emails to Google, we
finally
> got a response. They are absolutely not indexing ANY form of mirror or
HTML
> equivalent of dynamic pages. If content on pages is identical or even
close,
> forget about it!
>
> It's either the dynamic pages, or ONE series of HTML pages. Have a mirror
on
> another domain? Google may not list your site at all unless (like us), you
> also have a fair amount of content pages.
>
> They would not get into algorythym specifics, but the bottom line is that
we
> had too many copies of our store in their index. Their solution was to get
> rid OF ALL pages related to Merchant from our site. They said their spider
> will now crawl the site starting at the index and will spider any links it
> finds until content starts looking identical, then it will stop. It will
be
> at least two to six months after we "clean up our site and remove all
forms
> of mirror html pages before Google will start indexing new html pages
> generated by our new PHP Frame solution (Sebenza Studios). As that
solution
> also prevents the spider from seeing standard mvc product and category
> pages, it will work, but only after we get rid of our SEK pages and CBS
> Store Map.
>
> SEK, CBS store map and any other form of mirrored pages are a thing of the
> past when it comes to Google. Either the PHP Frame solution we have or
> Search Friendly links with dynamic Miva pages are the only way to fly. Get
> rid of anything else fast!
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Dave Hauser, President
> Aquarium Professionals Group
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Bill Gilligan
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:16 PM
> To: Miva Merchant Users
> Subject: [mru] OT: Google link?
>
>
> Someone recently posted a link to a story about new changes at Google.
>
> I have a client that has found his sales down, and google listing has
> dropped bu thousands. Did they
> drop thousands of pages?
>
> Anyone have that link?
>
> Bill
>
>
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