Robots.txt
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Google Webmaster Tools say our website's have low-quality pages, so we have created a robots.txt file and listed all URL’s that we want to remove from Google index.
Is this enough for the solve problem?
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Ah, it's difficult to see anything on the page because i can't read Turkish.
The only thing you should know is that every single page in a website should have unique content. So if two pages are exactly or almost exactly the same then Google will think it's duplicate content.
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Yeah that's definitely a duplicate content issue you're facing.
However, did you know that each of your pages have this little tag right at the top of them? name="robots" content="noindex" />
...Seems like it's already done.
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Thank You Wesley,
Here our pages but language is Turkish,
http://www.enakliyat.com.tr/detaylar/besiktas-basaksehir-ev-esyasi-tasinma-6495
http://www.enakliyat.com.tr/detaylar/ev-tasima-6503
http://www.enakliyat.com.tr/detaylar/evden-eve-nakliyat-6471
Our site is a home to home moving listing portal. Consumers who wants to move his home fills a form so that moving companies can cote prices. We were generating listing page URL’s by using the title submitted by customer. Unfortunately we have understood by now that many customers have entered same content.
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Well now I'm confused on the problem.. If the issue is duplicate content then the answer is definitely to block them with robots and/or use a rel=canonical tag on each.
However, the Google notice you are referencing has nothing to do with duplicate content notices to my knowledge.
There is always a way to improve your content. Filling out a form auto-generates a page, per my understanding. Great. Have it auto-generate a better looking page!
-my 2 cents. hope it's helpful.
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I agree with Jesse and Allen.
Of course the problems in Google Webmaster Tools will disappear by no-indexing it.
Low quality pages isn't a good thing for visitors either.It's difficult to give you any other advice then the very broad advise: Improve the quality of the pages.
If you could give us some links to let us know which website and which pages we're talking about then we could give you a better advice on how exactly you can improve those pages. -
Our site is a home to home moving listing portal. Consumers who wants to move his home fills a form so that moving companies can cote prices. We were generating listing page URL’s by using the title submitted by customer. Unfortunately we have understood by now that many customers have entered same content.
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Iskender.
Our experience has been YES. Google does follow your Robots.txt file and will ignore indexing those pages. If they have a problem, the problem will disappear.
My concern is, what is causing the "Low-quality" error message? In the long run, wouldn't it be better to correct the page to improve the quality? I look at each page as a way to qualify for a greater number of keywords, hence attracting more attention for your website.
We have had several pages flagged as duplicate content, when we never wanted the duplicate page indexed anyway. Once we included the page in the Robots.txt file the flagged error disappeared.
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Why not improve the pages, instead?
If Google says they are low quality, what makes you think any viewer will stick around? Bet the bounce rate is exceptionally high on those pages, maybe even site-wide.
Always remember to design pages for readers and not Google. If Google tells you your pages suck, they are probably just trying to help you and give you a hint that it's time to improve your site.
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