vBulletin SEO Tips and SEO Questions Discuss Tags, Archive, robots.txt and duplicate content in the vBulletinSetup Information forums; Hi, Since vB 3.7.x we have tags and archive and print version and usual threads ... all this is duplicated content What are you advice to avoid duplicate content or ...

[nfn]

Hi,

Since vB 3.7.x we have tags and archive and print version and usual threads ... all this is duplicated content
What are you advice to avoid duplicate content or should we let crawler get everything?
I use robots.txt with 3.6, but what are your advice with 3.7?

[nfn]

Originally Posted by MaddenGods

add tags.php to your robots.txt, the archive and print versions have always been there. I don't even have the archive enabled on my site

That's my idea too ... to much roads to the same destiny
I have archive enabled but it redirects to the original thread.

[Cerberus]

I leave archives on just so can add some ads there...I have noticed get decent amount of impressions on the archives...But yeah I have it redirected to the original thread when try to view it

[daennera]

Tags and duplicate content....ever since getting the vbulletin tag system installed and getting zoints taken out, I am having major duplicate content issues. What is the solution for this issue? thanks!!

[Cerberus]

It depends, do you have vbseo installed? And if not, do you have a 301 redirect to make it only www, or only without www?

[daennera]

I do have vbseo installed, and I do have a 301 redirect setup

[Brandon Sheley]

I have the tags and archive commented out in the robots.txt file