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Old April 19th, 2006, 12:52 AM   #7 (permalink)
Swanny
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Michael, here's the point:
In spidering PhotoPost installations, search engines come across 4 URLs (mabye more?) that all point to the same page:
1. In the "Most Recent Additions" area, the URL looks like this - http://www.fordf150.net/photos/showp...4/limit/recent
2. In the showcategory page, the photo URL is this - http://www.fordf150.net/photos/showp...19684/cat/3790
3. On the member's page, the "Last Photo Uploaded" URL looks like this - http://www.fordf150.net/photos/showp...hp?photo=19684
4. When searching on the photo title, the results page has this URL - http://www.fordf150.net/photos/showp...ics/perpage/18

Sure, it all goes the same place. But Google will index it FOUR times and then have to figure out what the "real/right" URL is. That means 4 pageviews instead of 1, and potentially 4x the bandwidth. Make sense?
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