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Hi
We have a .com and a .co.uk
Main website is .co.uk, we also have a landing page for the .com
If we redirect the .com to the .co.uk, will it create duplicate content ...
May seem like a silly question, but want to be sure that that the visitors cant access our website at both urls, as that would be duplicate content
Thanks in advance
John
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Thanks Tom
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Hi John
No, if you put the redirect in place it won't create duplicate content. In fact, redirections are often used to avoid any potential duplication problems.
The redirection tells the Google bot that the old URL is no longer required, the URL it points to is the correct one. This will tell the bot to stop indexing and crawling the old URL, pass on any of the links pointing to the old URL and consider the new URL to be the definitive article.
Out with the old and in with the new, so to speak!
You can read more on redirection with the Moz Guide.
Hope this helps!
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