Duplicate title tag error
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Hi all,
I am new to SEO, and we have just launched a new version of our site (kept the domain name the same though). I keep getting errors for duplicate title tags - e.g. www.sandafayre.com/default.aspx and www.sandafayre.com/Default.aspx, www.sandafayre.com/StampAuctions.aspx and www.sandafayre.com/stampauctions.aspx (plus loads others :o). The only difference each time seems to be the capitalisation of the first character - but I though URLs were not case sensitive? I've been advised to add the rel canonical tag to one of the pages, but the problem is I really only have 1 version of each page! Can anybody help please?
Many thanks in advance!
Nikki
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Thanks Steven and Roel, that points me in the right direction and seems a logical way to proceed!
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Hi Nikki,
You can fix this by editing your .htaccess (if you use one) or by making changes on the server-side, just like Steven said.
Some more info on changing it by .htaccess:
http://www.chrisabernethy.com/force-lower-case-urls-with-mod_rewrite/ -
Hi Nikki,
Some web servers are case sensitive (ours is) and it can cause problems with "duplicate" pages and even 404 errors for capitalised urls.
The first thing you should do is talk to the people responsible for managing that server and see what they can do to normalise the file structure of your website.
Be careful though that links to any capitalised version still pass through.
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