webmacher
03-07-2006, 07:34 PM
Hi,
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it discussed... We ran a test search and found that the same page shows up repeatedly in the search results, something like this:
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/about/index.html
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/about/
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/About/
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/About/index.html
Our tech guru says that I need to go through the entire site and make sure every link is exactly the same -- that the duplicates are happening because sometimes we link directly to the index page and sometimes just point to the folder, and because the case is sometimes upper and lower and sometimes just lower.
Before I do that (and it's not going to be easy to maintain this level of consistency in the future!), I'm wondering if there's a way to change the settings in this search engine to make it case-insensitive, and also to interpret a link to a folder and a link to the index page in that folder as the same thing. Am I making sense?
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it discussed... We ran a test search and found that the same page shows up repeatedly in the search results, something like this:
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/about/index.html
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/about/
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/About/
About Our Company
Blah blah blah blah...
URL: http://www.oursite.com/About/index.html
Our tech guru says that I need to go through the entire site and make sure every link is exactly the same -- that the duplicates are happening because sometimes we link directly to the index page and sometimes just point to the folder, and because the case is sometimes upper and lower and sometimes just lower.
Before I do that (and it's not going to be easy to maintain this level of consistency in the future!), I'm wondering if there's a way to change the settings in this search engine to make it case-insensitive, and also to interpret a link to a folder and a link to the index page in that folder as the same thing. Am I making sense?