Is Google indexing Mp3 audio and MIDI music files? Can that cause any duplicate problems?
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Hello,
I own virtualsheetmusic.com website and we have several thousands of media files (Mp3 and MIDI files) that potentially Google can index. If that's the case, I am wondering if that could cause any "duplicate" issues of some sort since many of such media files have exact file names or same meta information inside.
Any thoughts about this issue are very welcome!
Thank you in advance to anyone.
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Thank you Jesse, that's pretty much what I thought, but I wanted to have someone else confirming me that.
Thank you very much, appreciated your help!
All the best,
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I sincerely doubt it. Especially in regards to file names. Think of how many "about.html" and "index.html" pages exist... So what if the filename is the same? And meta content? I don't think Google factors that into their ranking.
Assuming this is even something they're ranking.. I'm pretty confident that none of this matters.
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