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Search engine indexing question

         

nakkijooseppi

4:31 pm on Aug 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I have a new database driven website which has over 5000 pages (I use ASP to handle a database). The site is about hotels.

Is there any automatic way to handle a sitemap and tell to search engines that don't index most of the pages?

The site has pages like "[Location]: Hotels 1-20/50" and "[Location]: Hotels 21-40/50" etc

I want that Google and others only index the first [Location]-page: "[Location]: Hotels 1-20/50" not ohers

Any ideas?

[edited by: phranque at 11:20 am (utc) on Aug. 25, 2009]
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nakkijooseppi

7:17 pm on Aug 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I have solved the problem. Sitemap generator excluded urls which has string NAV in address like "...&citycode=5940&NAV=2". String NAV is for ASP-paging and not in first city-page urls. Also I blocked these pages in robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*NAV=

Am I doing right things... maybe