Best Way to Fix Dupe Content
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We have some internal pages which we have discovered may be causing a duplicate content problem. Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to fix this?
Main page:
Dupe pages:
**http://**bit.ly/116uzXe
**http://**bit.ly/WxyyoW
**http://**bit.ly/TNxPVm
http://bit.ly/VMnbuYThanks in advance!
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You could also make use of robots.txt file to resolve it.
Disallow: /*?sort=
NOTE: Be very careful when blocking search engines. Test and test again!
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Add canonical tags to your headers:
This helps tell Google which version of your content is the original. You can also tell Google to ignore those query parameters in Google Webmaster Tools:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687
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