By krustbox on

For some reason i have a single topic on my drupal forum called "Test Topic." Google has indexed this topic over 10 times. The exact same topic. The only difference i see is the information stating "this was posted X amount of days or hours ago." What would cause drupal to do this and how can i fix it? I don't want to disable forum topics from being indexed, just not multiple times. This could cause serious problems for my website in terms of duplicate content and what not. I have installed all the main modules to help take care of duplicate content but it still indexes the topic multiple times. Thanks for any help.

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krustbox commented

If it is any help, the link being indexed each time is differnt also. It is picking up multiple pages based on some things.

http://mysite.com/forum/1?sort=desc&order=Topic
http://mysite.com/forum/1?sort=asc&order=Last+reply
http:/mysite.com/forum/1?sort=asc&order=Created

Why does it do this?

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ranavaibhav
Location Toronto
commented

Have you set "Parameter handling" in your google webmaster?
Go to: Google Webmaster > Site Configuration > Settings > Parameter handling

For above example: Add "sort" as a parameter and "Ignore" as action. "order" as parameter and "Ignore" as action.. etc..

Note, it will take days or even months for google to remove your urls from duplicate content.

Jackie R

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ingox commented

I'll check this out. Thank you very much for your help.

Ingo