Duplicate URL for homepage
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Hi Gurus,
Thank you for reading this question
My site is developed in Classic ASP
How can i make sure the homepage is not duplicated for
http://www.partyrama.co.uk/default.asp
http://partyrama.co.uk/default.asp
Regards
Sri
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Thank you I have tried that lets hope it sorts the duplicate issue for the crawler
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I am a web developer and when i did this
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.new-url.com/"
%>http://www.partyrama.co.uk/ said, too many reloads on the page and the page crashed
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The 301 redirect is a great solution. You could also use a rel=canonical if for some odd reason a 301 is not possible. See Google's guide here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
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Hi Sri
To avoid this issue, in this instance I would use a 301 redirect.
Pick the URL that you would like your website to be, then get ready to redirect the other 3. This will stop Google from indexing all of the extra URLs, removing any duplicate content issue.
You can find a really useful guide on redirection in this Moz post.
If you have a web development team, you can ask them to implement the redirections for you. If not, have a read through that guide very carefully to ensure that you do it correctly.
Hope this helps.
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