: Host duplicate student webpages without letting them affect SEO Overview: I am looking to host webpages that students make on our main website. (i.e. www.example.com) Question: Since all students
Overview: I am looking to host webpages that students make on our main website. (i.e. example.com)
Question: Since all students created the exact same website as their project. We do not want to be penalized by Google or any search engine for having duplicate content or any other penalty
Requirement: We would like to host it on our website as such example.com/student1name. Our preference is that our main URL is part of the URL.
Researched solutions:
noindex: problem we learned was that this is just a suggestion to search engines and more importantly it just prevents showing the page, not taking it into consideration
Having it on a completely different domain: we want to avoid this as it is a hassle
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From your reference to the noindex tag it would appear as though you don't need the student sites to be indexed. If you add all the student sites under a single directory such as example.com/students/student1.HTML you could then add a disallow directive in your robots.txt file for the whole students directory, this would protect your main site from any SEO issues that the student sites could cause as Google would not attempt to index any of them, only the main site but nothing in the student directory.
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