Weird Indexing Question
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Google has indexed mysite.com/ and mysitem.com/\/ (no idea why). If you click on the /%5C? URL it takes you to mysite.com//. I have a rel=canonical tag on it that goes to mysite.com/ but I was wondering if there was another way to correct the issue.
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Yes MonaVie as Steve Ollington has said, once it's realised that the two are one of the same, then there is no risk of penalty!
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It will come out of the index once G realises you've told it that both pages are one and the same. So yeah it will come out.
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canonical won't get it out of the index though, right? I'm not one of the "trust Google to work things out" people.
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Try doing the redirect with mysite.com//
The %5C equals \ in URL Escape Code.
Not that I am an expert in this, maybe someone who is a techie will comment.
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If it's canonical then don't worry!
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can you do an htaccess redirect with weird characters like %? I ran into problems w/ odd characters before.
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301 Redirect then wait
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