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EC
09-01-2006, 06:23 PM
I can't seem to find this anywhere. If anybody knows, or knows where I might find the answer (I tried the google webmaster guidelines, google search, blah blah -- maybe I just have my vocabulary confused or something).

Ok the issue is, my client wants no two URLS to contain the same content. This has been quite a workaround since I'm using a content management system and pages are generated on-the-fly, sorted by category, archived, etc. The nature of online publishing, blogging, etc.

I could never find anything that would tell me that this was a 'no-no' so I had to work around it.

Now, we're just about to launch, and there is another concern.

I've created internal anchor links to aid the user, for example -- an article on the home page is an excerpt, then a link to the full article if you want to read on. If you've read the excerpt, my feeling is that -- why link them to a page and make them scroll down, why not do a <a href="http://sitename.com/page/#extended"> situation where you are taken directly to <a name="extended"> on the page. With me?

Well what happens is, he's concerned that search engines will read this:

http://www.sitename.com/page/
and http://www.sitename/page/#extended

As him trying to duplicate content on more than one page because the URLS are different.

Any ideas?