URL removals
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Hello there,
I found out that some pages of the site have two different URL's pointing at the same page generating duplicate content, title and description.
Is there a way to block one of them?
cheers
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I read it already.
Thanks a lot for your help, I will look at it again and see if I can find a solution.
Cheers
Oscar
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Be sure your read through this too: Redirection - SEO Best Practices - Moz
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to a complete different page.
Anyway, I have been talking about pages but the three example above (A,B and C) is just one page that has two different URL,s and although the original URL (A) has been redirect, is still being counted has duplicate by Google.
I am trying to get the hang of it but there is a huge mess I'd say
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what's C already being canonicalized to?
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I think I will do that. Even though it might end up in a mess as on page **C ** there is a canonical tag already.
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Yes, you could do that. But again why not rel=canonical all of them to the same page B is being canonicalized to?
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**C **to B
Because **A **is already redirect to **B. **
The problem is that even though **A **is redirect to **B **I have lots of duplicate issues. I have lots of URL's like this.
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Of A, B, C, which are you looking to redirect to which?
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The problem is that the canonical tag can't be used as there it's been used already, the only option could be the 301 redirect, but there are quite a lot of pages with this issue, will it be okay to use the 301 for all of them?
This is the structure of the site:
A www.example.com/Product.asp?PID=1845 which was the original page, this page is redirect to
B www.example.com/Product/whatever-the-product-is/1845 which is the page reachable from the website and then there is another page
C www.example.com/Product/whatever-the-product-could-be/1845
These URL's represent the same page.
Also note that on page B there is already a canonical tag to another page in which are grouped all the products that differs from each other for colour, length or some other feature.
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Technically there are two pages with unique URLs that serve the identical content. Can you just 301 redirect one of the URLs to the other? Another option would be to place a rel=canonical tag on the page that is not the original that points to the original page.
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If you want the pages to remain in place, the best way is to rel=canonicalize one to the other. Here's Moz's guide for that.
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