Duplicate Content For Trailing Slashes?
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I have several website in campaigns and I consistently get flagged for duplicate content and duplicate page titles from the domain and the domain/ versions of the sites even though they are properly redirected. How can I fix this?
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Hi Ryan,
I believe this was a bug we had in the crawler that's fixed now. If you're still seeing this, please send a note to help@seomoz.org and they'll get it straightened out for you.
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I've had issues with SEOMoz flagging dupes before that weren't. See the same URL twice in the report. Exactly the same URL. Like Mat said, submit a ticket. They're really good about support.
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Just here in SEOmoz......the server is doing the proper redirect to the trailing slash, and I've checked all of the internal links. Not sure why this is being flagged, or if it's a bug in the PRO tool.
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Where are these being flagged as duplicate? Just here in SEOmoz tools?
If so, I'd raise a ticket about that. domain/ and domain shouldn't flag as duplicate. Certainly Google doesn't treat those as separate resources otherwise everyone would have a problem.
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