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louandel15 last edited by

Hi,

My problem is this:

SEOmoz tells me I have duplicate content because it is picking up my index page in three different ways:

http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk

http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk/

and

http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk/index.php

Can someone give me some advice as to how I can deal with this issue?

thank you for your time,

louandel15
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Tintanus Subscriber last edited by
Hi, there are several ways to solve this issue:
1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools and go to Configuration>Configuration and click the url that you prefer.
2. Use 301 redirection.
3. Add the urls you don't like to your robots.txt
you should learn more about these 3 technics before applying one of them.

Cheers !
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jgower last edited by

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work
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