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Title case or lower can URL folders

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NeilTompkins last edited by

Is it best to have lower case URLs e.g

mydomain.com/hotels-in-london/

or title case like

mydomain.com/Hotels-In-London/

I noticed in the seomoz tools that it would report the above two URLs as duplicate if the site had two links using pointing to each URL
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NeilTompkins @AlanMosley last edited by

No a custom written CMS, so it should be fairly easy to code.
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StalkerB @AlanMosley last edited by

If your CMS doesn't do it then you'll need a rewrite rule, but I'd recommend that you try and sort out the CMS in the first instance.

Are you using a common CMS?
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NeilTompkins @AlanMosley last edited by

How do you enforce a lower cased URL ? Use canonical tag ?
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AlanMosley @StalkerB last edited by

Barry is correct, lower case is best.

lower and upper are diffecne urls a coanonical issue.
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StalkerB last edited by

Lowercase, every time.
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