Container Page/Content Page Duplicate Content

[SpokeHQ]

My client has a container page on their website, they are using SiteFinity, so it is called a "group page", in which individual pages appear and can be scrolled through. When link are followed, they first lead to the group page URL, in which the first content page is shown. However, when navigating through the content pages, the URL changes.

When navigating BACK to the first content page, the URL is that for the content page, but it appears to indexers as a duplicate of the group page, that is, the URL that appeared when first linking to the group page.

The client updates this on the regular, so I need to find a solution that will allow them to add more pages, the new one always becoming the top page, without requiring extra coding. For instance, I had considered integrating REL=NEXT and REL=PREV, but they aren't going to keep that up to date.

[ProductiveEdge]

I'm running into the same issue right now. Has anyone discussed this with Sitefinity? It seems to be a very common issue with their CMS.

[SpokeHQ]

I couldn't manage to navigate through the Russian language help for the page, so I went with a simpler solution.

I created another page where the blog was displayed with no pagination, then I REL=CANONICAL over there from the other blog container page. That version is not listed anywhere in the page navigation, so it can't be surfed into, but it does exist for search purposes.

Really, I think getting all that blog summary content together on one page is probably better SEO anyway.

[SorinaDascalu]

Hi William,

From what I see this in not really a SEO problem, is a CMS problem. Have you tried contacting SiteFinity support or related forums?

As for duplicate content issues, you need to find a way to use rel=canonical on the site, take a look here to see if this helps: http://www.sitefinitywatch.com/blog/09-03-11/Specifying_a_Preferred_URL_the_Google_way.aspx