Duplicate page content
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hi
I am getting an duplicate content error in SEOMoz on one of my websites
it shows
http://www.exampledomain.co.uk
http://www.exampledomain.co.uk/
http://www.exampledomain.co.uk/index.html
how can i fix this?
thanks
darren
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Hi Darren
The reason for this is most likely that you have internal links within your site pointing to these pages.
Most likely within the web app you have set up www.exampledomain.com as the campaign address, within the site you have a link to the homepage using and another using /index.html
[If easily done I would change your internal links all to point to the same place from a housekeeping point of view.
However, I would you should either 301 or rel=canonical the homepage to point to http://www.exampledomain.com/ making sure you add the trailing slash to the domain as this gets added anyway.
This will stop the page reporting as duplicates, also Google will only see one version of your pages so it definitely won't jeopardise SERPS, in fact it should pack some rankings bonus' for you.](/)
The following article covers the rel=canonical solution http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/c...
This one covers 301s
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-re...Hope that helps
Justin
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You can specify your canonical links. Also known as “preferred links”. For search engines to deal with duplicate content, they have to choose which link they will favor over all others that contain identical page content.
To do this, simply add this tag to specify your preferred version:
Copy that on the section of all non-canonical versions of the page, like the: http://www.exampledomain.co.uk/index.html for example.
This format will give you more control over the URL that will appear on the search results. It also helps to make sure that all properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.
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