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krispy1812
03-28-2007, 11:25 AM
Okay,

so I'm running vBadvanced, and I add loads of html pages which I have stored in my public_html area.

Let's say I have them stored in /public_html/content/directory folder.

Questions:

1) If I had html pages into the VBA system, do I need to create pages with html tags such as <html> <head> <title> <body> and their respective closing tags ?

2) If I do create html pages and incorporate them into the VBA system, how does this work with search engines like google ?
Do I need to do something to prevent SE's from indexing the HTML pages, which are now incorporated into the VBA system to prevent duplication problems ?

thanx in advance for any replies.
Brian
03-28-2007, 12:05 PM
1). It doesn't matter really. The <html> and <body> tags are not necessary though, and will be stripped out by the CMPS when it calls the HTML file.

2). If you have links to the normal HTML pages in addition to links to the CMPS pages, then it probably wouldn't hurt to throw some rel="nofollow" tags in the links you don't want search engines to crawl.
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krispy1812
03-30-2007, 11:30 PM
2). If you have links to the normal HTML pages in addition to links to the CMPS pages, then it probably wouldn't hurt to throw some rel="nofollow" tags in the links you don't want search engines to crawl.

As far as I am aware the rel="nofollow" applies only to google?

I'm sure I've read in some seo forums that this was the case, and that yahoo, msn and the other minority groups ignore the rel="nofollow" element.

I guess one answer would be to stick all thge html files in one folder and use robots.txt as an alternative to block accessing or indexing the folder?

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