defeated Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hi, I've just added pagination to one of my pages. Should I create a dynamic list of every paginated page in my sitemap or will google find them all by the original url? If I create urls dynamically then how do I get around the first page problem.... ie. www.mysite.ie/jobs.php is the root page but will return exactly the same output as www.mysite.ie/jobs.php?page=1 thus creating duplicate content as far as google is concerned. Google already hate me..... I think because of all the changes I've made so I could do with some pointers. Cheers in advance. Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucffool Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Your sitemap should only point to /jobs.php and then hopefully the links will go from there for google. However, the reason people use mod_rewrite to change it to a pretty URL (/jobs/1 for page 1, for example) is so they could then include each page in their sitemap so everyone indexes everything. I'd have to double-check the sitemaps rules to confirm, but I'm pretty sure you are in the hands of the bot once it is on page 1 without any further changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkyIS Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Google already hate me..... I think because of all the changes I've made so I could do with some pointers. pointer: try an SEO forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucffool Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 pointer: try an SEO forum. Ouch... and awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
defeated Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 A lot of my pages are dynamic.... each job. I didn't use mod_rewrite for them. just plain old jobdetails.php?url=jobdetails&id=whatever the job reference no. is. I have had problems with google thinking I have duplicate meta tags (title and description) because any page that does not have url=whatever after the ? reverts to the default title and description. Adding in Url= was my way of changing the title for each page within an inluded header. Maybe there is a better way but I don't know it. SEO forum.... point taken. I have just left the address in the sitemap as http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs.php?url=jobs and I'll see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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