Duplicate Content - Captcha on Contact Form
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I am going to be working on a site where the contact form is being flagged as duplicate content the URL is the same apart from having:
- /contact/10119
- contact/31010
...at the end of it.
The only difference in the content of the page that I can see is the Captcha numbers?
Is there a way to overcome this to stop duplicate content?
Thanks in advance
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You're welcome. Good luck with your project.
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Thank you I was thinking something like that but I wasn't sure...
Thanks again!
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The rel=canonical tag should fix the issue. Something like this in the head section of the page.
Here is the Google Article about Rel Canonical.
Hope this helps,
Don
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