Duplicate search results

ednolan · Post by **ednolan** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 9:13 am

Hello, I am having a problem with search results that are being duplicated. I am indexing pages with product tables that contain columns of product specifications. Each column of the table is being treated like an individual page in the search results but the content stored for each one of the results is identical. I have tried every combination of "Remove Common" and "Prevent Duplicates" with out any luck. When it does prevent duplicates it no longer indexes the information in the product table. Have you run into this before and do you have any suggestions? You can see an example of this if you go to nolansupply.com and search for dial calipers. The first four results lead to the same page. Thank You! Ed Nolan

doran · Post by **doran** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 10:18 am

Those pages are not identical (nor are the urls). I see tables with info arranged in different orders.

Post by **mark** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:28 am

You appear to have several variations of each page depending on various sorting flags. You should add all but one of those to the exclusions list so only one set gets indexed. eg:
OrderType=specfield1
OrderType=specfield2
OrderType=Price