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Dynamic contents causes duplicate pages
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Technical help required - please!
In our Duplicate Content Pages Report I see a lot of duplicate pages that are created by one URL plus several versions of the same page with the dynamic content, for example,
http://www.georgebrown.ca/immigranteducation/programs
http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Study
http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Term
http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Certification
http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=TitleHow do we solve it?
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Ektron CMS. Yah, will have to go with the noindex somehow.
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I don't know which CMS/framework you use but it's unlikely you can set canonical at template level.
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Oh!!! Just now realized a different problem with canonical.
The same template is used with different URLs, for example, http://www.georgebrown.ca/immigranteducation/programs/ is the same template as http://www.georgebrown.ca/liberalarts/programs/, just with a different set of programs. We have 22 schools, each page creates 4 versions of itself (depending on the ordering of the programs).
So there is no way to program ONE url on the template level. Do I understand that correct?
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Moz doesn't pick, just signal the duplicate content. If you add the canonical Moz should understand and un flag it as duplicate.
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1. I think I will go with a canonical tag.
2. I believe noindex will not work as this is a template used in multiple page.3. Done that, but then MOZ reports them as duplicate content, which drives me crazy
4. Done that too. But don't know how to tell MOZ
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- You can just add a canonical tag to signal google which version is the one to index.
- Or add meta "noidex"to the versions you do not want to be indexed.
- Or just do nothing and let google pick his preferred version for its index.
- Or you can teach google what those url parameter do and instruct him to do not index those versions.
I would programmatically add meta noindex.
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