Print Pages Being Favored Over Html Pages!

[dianna]

You might be able to contrive a wildcard option but that probably would not help much. This may only be a temporary situation that lasts a few weeks. Every now and then Google seems to dump a lot of pages from its index and then it recrawls the Web and rebuilds the index. I have seen many, many complaints in numerous forums over the past couple of weeks about sites' pages vanishing from Google. That is usually a clear signal of the temporary situation I describe.

I suppose if you cannot add "noindex" meta tags to all those pages, implementing a "rel='canonical'" tag would be just as cumbersome. But going forward you may want to work with your client on that.

In the meantime, one option some people have found helps is to acquire new trusted (high-value) links to their deeper content.