Rgds
R

NOFOLLOWs can help when you have multiple categories/tags that might result in duplicate content. Lets say you were using tags and categories – each might have slightly different content but probably a fair proportion of duplicate content.

Consider the archives – in aggregate they will contain the same posts as the categories so you could NOFOLLOW those links and still retain a path to every post. I wouldn’t advise this all the time, but when you have a large number of pages in the supplemental index it may pay off.

Obviously I didn’t choose a great title for the post! But basically I think that the SEs will have a hard time ranking Paul’s blog for a primary phrase when his main title change every time he posts something new. Also the 302 redirect from his root page wasn’t helping. In all I felt that his site might well be confusing the bots, hence the title. I wish I had a bit more time to review the posts, but things are quite hectic these days.

Sorry for any confusion caused

Rgds
Richard

And also what relevancy does the page title of this blog post -
Are You Confusing Search Engine Bots? – have to do with the blog post? I was expecting a post about the different types of bots. Just curious.

Cormac

Technically what you describe is duplicate content – two URLs which both resolve tot he same content. Google will simply filter one and show the other.

You need not be concerned with this unless you find that your external links are split between / and /index.html.

Try to make sure that when you’re placing links that they point at the former. I think that the Blogspot banner actually points at /index.html by default but I’m not sure if you can change this manually.

Not a lot you can do with Blogspot unfortunately, but not too much to worry about in this case (fortunately).

Rgds
Richard

I tend to find that the same issues come up again and again on sites I check. There are a few other things that you could do (like NOFOLLOWing some of the internal links to category pages and the like), but I reckon just the main 4 or 5 fixes should make a difference.

Sorry for the delay in getting it done. I’m hoping to get at least 3 more done this week though for anyone else who is waiting.

Rgds
Richard

Thanks for the advice. They’re all simple things (that you’ve said many times before and should be easy to fix.

Paul