Does this constitute duplicate content?

[Simon Young]

Hope you can help, I want to make sure that I am not getting penalised for duplicate content penalties and if so then perhaps someone could suggest a fix..

I have a page where customers select their printer (php page) and this then takes them to their particular printer... the selection page is Compatible inkjet printer cartridges - Epson, Canon and HP ink - then I have a rewritre that converts the dynamic php results page to an html page - an example would be -



dvd-and-media.com/cartridges_purchase.php?Model=Epson+Stylus+Photo+R 320 is re-written and converted to - dvd-and-media.com/Inkjet-Cartridges-Epson-Stylus-Photo-R320.html

However if a customer adds the item to their cart and then clicks the continue shopping they then get the php version of the page - so both still exist - so does this mean a duplicate content penalty or is this acceptable?

[inertia]

Why is the page after "continue shopping" not rewriting in the same way as the initial page?

[SemAdvance]

A duplicate content penalty would be applied to Site B which takes Intellectual Property from Site A without permission, which is often written content, and posts it on their own site, as their own work. The search engines would supposedly be able to determine date of first inception and filter Site B from appearing in the upper results.

Duplicate pages within your own site, would be seen by the search engines as standard operation for a great deal of e-commerce websites, and others using a CMS for example.

Hope this helps!

[morestar]

Yes right now if that was my site I would be quite worried about duplicate content issues with the site.

so going to the product page bring an HTML Re-write and then if they continue shopping they get the actual php version of the page.

have you totally checked the URL of the new php (duplicate) page? Maybe it's not even the same page that get re-written in the first place...

[morestar]

A duplicate content penalty would be applied to Site B which takes Intellectual Property from Site A without permission, which is often written content, and posts it on their own site, as their own work. The search engines would supposedly be able to determine date of first inception and filter Site B from appearing in the upper results.

Duplicate pages within your own site, would be seen by the search engines as standard operation for a great deal of e-commerce websites, and others using a CMS for example.

Hope this helps!

OH!

I knew not...

[morestar]

ya it might not considering the redirect to the duplicate page is done via a click submission.

[flhu]

But just in case, I would use, and I have used, rel="nofollow" on links that go to the cart... There's no reason to have it spidered, and you most likely wouldn't want the cart to be the landing page, anyway.

[morestar]

I liken SEO to voodoo and make a sacrifice of rum and decapitate a chicken to Papa Legba, spirit of communications and crossroads, before every site launch.

I do the same...

ya that would be a great idea - the no follows, that should keep your mind at ease for a time anyways...the search engines don't need to see your cart pages...

[Jlee350]

In fact I do NJ!

It is GSiteCrawler - you'll have to search for it b/c I can't post url's yet. but it's easy to find.

[SnerdeyWebs]

Just following up on the question ( do you have a fav crawler to use )

Anyone have a list that they normally check with that they'd like to share