Duplicate Content Errors
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Ok, old fat client developer new at SEO so I apologize if this is obvious.
I have 4 errors in one of my campaigns. two are duplicate content and two are duplicate title.
Here is the duplicate title error
Rare Currency And Old Paper Money Values and Information.
http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/Rare Currency And Old Paper Money Values and Information.
http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/Default.aspxSo, my question is... What do I need to do to make this right? They are the same page. in my page load for default.aspx I have this:
this.Title = "Rare Currency And Old Paper Money Values and Information.";
And it occurs only once...
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They offer II7 but I didn't see any point to it...
Now it's dawning on me I may need to reconsider.
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I dont think it works on IIS6
There is your problem.
You can fix your www problem by code, see tutorials, but fixing the default page is not so easy. as in ASP.Net you can not detect the difference between domain.com and domain.com/default.aspx
Best thing you can do is make sure all your internal links point to domain.com and not domain.com/default.aspx any external links pointing to default.aspx will be watsed, but sicne no internal links point to default.aspx you are unlikely to get any mopre external links pointing to it.
GoDaddy much be using old servers.
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It's II6 hosted on Godaddy. I will see if I can get my IIS restarted.
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Cant see anything wrong with web.config
I should of asked before if you are using IIS7?
if so try to debug with the article http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/10/30/debug-and-troubleshoot-rewrite-rules-easily.aspx
I have the same code as you in many sites all working fine
you may need to restart IIS?
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nor is the non www redirected to the www
the code i gave you should be inside the configuration tag
<configuration></configuration>
place here
and you should only have one <system.webserver>tag</system.webserver>
if you want you cany send me your web.config and ill have a look
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Ok, I have that in place... if I am testing right, the default.aspx isn't working. Maybe it's a hosting issue?
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What this line is saying is, if not antiquebanknotes.com then redirect, note the negate=true
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^.antiquebanknotes.com$" negate="true"></add>
What you should have is
<system.webserver><rewrite><rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.antiquebanknotes.com$" negate="true"></add></conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/{R:1}"></action></match></rule>
<rule name="Default Page" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="^default.aspx$"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll"><add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="GET"></add></conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="/"></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver>Try that, let me know when you have it in place and I will test it for you.
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I thought this pattern:
was ok for me bcause I am looking to take AntiqueBanknotes.com and make it into www.AntiqueBankNotes etc
I think my hostname redirect is working ok.... it's the default.aspx redir that isn't working. I have it in the same Rules section.
Look ok?
<rule name="Default Page" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="^default.aspx$"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll"><add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="GET"></add></conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="/"></action></match></rule> -
You have an error above, you should have
pattern="^www.antiquebanknotes.com$"
not pattern="^antiquebanknotes\.com$"
The other rule does work i just tested it
When adding it place stright under the last rule inside the same rules tag, there should only be one rules tag ```
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Sorry, I forgot to add that I put that rule in before but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Not sure why but sadly it's time for my day job so I will take a look tonight.
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Add the rule on this page to it
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-default-pageit should work no worries
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Ah, I see... I have added the snippets to the web config for default page and www vs non www pages. it seems like the www issue is working correctly. I will have to work on the default issue as it seems to ignore my rule.
This is what I have done on that score.
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^antiquebanknotes.com$" negate="true"></add></conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" www.antiquebanknotes.com="" {r:1"="">http://www.AntiqueBanknotes.com/{R:1}" />
</action></match></rule>Thanks for all your help!
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Using iis writes to teh web.config file fior you, the tutorials show you the code it writes, you can just copy it into the web.config
There is also some tuorials on how to make a httpmodule that works much like the global.asax file but intercepts the requerst before it reaches the website, much better preformace.
Also i cheked your non www and it resolved to this
http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/antiquebanknotes/default.aspx
I notive above you dont have "" on the first url, is that just a typo?
this tutorial uses the httpmodule, it resolves the other way from www to nonwww, but you can alter it
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/using-ihttpmodule-c-sharp
or you can just edit the web.config as I sugested above
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Hi Alan,I appreciate the links and now I know what the problem is... sadly though I am not able to access IIS as this is running on Godaddy... I guess I will have to implement something in the global.asax file?I have this code in the global.asax to handle the www and non www page issue. string request = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString().ToLower();if (request.Contains("http://antiquebanknotes.com")){ HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear(); HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"; HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", request.Replace (http://antiquebanknotes.com", "http://www.antiquebanknotes.com));}
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They are seen as 2 different pages to search engines adn spliting your rank,
Here is a tutoprial just for this problem
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-default-page
You may want to have a look at this one also for yourt www and non www pages.
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-domain-name-issues
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