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How do I fix this type of duplicate page content problem?

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brianhughes last edited by

Sample URLs with this Duplicate Page Content

URLs Internal Links External Links Page Authority Linking Root Domains

http://rogerelkindlaw.com/index.html

30 0 26 1

http://www.rogerelkindlaw.com/index.html

30 0 20 1

http://www.rogerelkindlaw.com/

| 1,630 | 613 | 43 | 110 |

As you can see there are three duplicate pages;

http://rogerelkindlaw.com/index.html

http://www.rogerelkindlaw.com/index.html

http://www.rogerelkindlaw.com/

What would be the best and most efficient way to fix this problem and also how to prevent this from happening?

Thank you.
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PH292 Subscriber last edited by

Hi Brian

What Brent says in key, although some web developers tell you can't be done - don't get put off by them.

Also - (but not instead of) in Google Webmaster tools you can select which URL is always displayed.

Hope this helps

PH
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Copstead last edited by

Canonicalization - Very simple way to clean up a lot of duplicate issues.

Here is a great article on how to take care of these:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
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