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How can I use Intuit without getting duplicate content issues

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onestrohm last edited by

All of my Intuit site show duplicate content on the index pages. How can I avoid this
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anthonydnelson @onestrohm last edited by

Hi Barry,

You can learn a bit more about redirects here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

From your description of the original question, I'm thinking that you are describing a problem of having duplicate content on pages like this:

www.site.com and www.site.com/index.html

Does that sound accurate or plausible?
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onestrohm @anthonydnelson last edited by

I am afraid you are dealing with someone that is mostly illiterate in this stuff. I don't know what a 301 redirect is or how to put it on my index page..
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anthonydnelson last edited by

If I'm understanding correctly, I think you need to simply do a 301 redirect of your index pages to the canonical version of each URL.
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