[Rails] Re: Converting an Existing Website: Removing Duplicate Meta Data

2010-10-07 Thread Christine Nyb
> you could try putting a canonical tag into your view. Saying google that > /photos is the same content as /photos.html. > > http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html > Hi Max, Thank you for your suggestion. I did come across this but thought it applied on

[Rails] Re: Converting an Existing Website: Removing Duplicate Meta Data

2010-10-06 Thread Christine Nyb
Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > What's an example of what you're seeing, and how is it not what you > want? It's just a message saying pages have duplicate title tags and meta data and that each page should be unique. > This may be a Google Webmaster Tools question, not a Rails one. The only inf

[Rails] Converting an Existing Website: Removing Duplicate Meta Data

2010-10-06 Thread Christine Nyb
Hi, I have searched the forum to see if this has come up before. If it has and I missed it I am sorry. I'm fairly new to Ruby on Rails and have converted an existing site. To avoid annoying redirects and disrupting search engine results I updated the routes.rb file so that the old file name ren