Google Dupe Content query

[PriceInspector]

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Hi,

I have a website that allows users to search a product database - if it returns zero results it automatically runs a second search and goes to a second search where it queries a second product database.

The problem I am seeing is that when Google crawls www.site.com/search1/ it is redirecting to www.site.com/search2/ and both urls are being indexed with the same TITLE tag and page content - webmaster tools is then picking this up as a problem.

Has anyone else had this type of problem, and if so how can I get around it?

Cheers,
Wesiwyg

[Andrew Starr]

If I am understanding you correctly, you run a search query on the first page and if there are zero results, the visitor is redirected to a second page which then runs a second seperate query?

If so, why not run the two search queries on the first page?

[PriceInspector]

Hi Andrew,

As it stands we have 2 product databases, so the URL's are different.

When a user runs search 1 and gets zero results, it does not render this page, but runs the 2nd search instantly, going to a second URL.

Hope this makes sense!

[TimL85]

Hi Andrew,

As it stands we have 2 product databases, so the URL's are different.

When a user runs search 1 and gets zero results, it does not render this page, but runs the 2nd search instantly, going to a second URL.

Hope this makes sense!

I think what Andrew is saying is that if the content of Search 2 is useful to the user, then why not incorporate it into the results of the first search?

[Andrew Starr]

Yes that's what I meant to say. What I think and what I speak/type/write does not always match exactly.

You could just have the one page which would be roughly coded like:

run 1st search query on database1

if more than zero results, then show results

if zero results, then run 2nd search query on database2

if more than zero results, then show results from 2nd query

[ep90]

Hi,

The problem I am seeing is that when Google crawls www.site.com/search1/ it is redirecting to www.site.com/search2/ and both urls are being indexed with the same TITLE tag and page content - webmaster tools is then picking this up as a problem.

What type of redirect are you doing? A 301? The type of redirect will be critical to how Google indexes the two pages.

Like the other have said, you'd be best staying on the same page and doing the query to the 2nd database without going to another page. (or you could tell google not to index the 2nd page in your robots.txt)