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Upper and lower case URLS coming up as duplicate content
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Hey guys and gals, I'm having a frustrating time with an issue. Our site has around 10 pages that are coming up as duplicate content/ duplicate title. I'm not sure what I can do to fix this. I was going to attempt to 301 direct the upper case to lower but I'm worried how this will affect our SEO. can anyone offer some insight on what I should be doing?
Update: What I'm trying to figure out is what I should do for our URL's. For example, when I run an audit I'm getting two different pages: aaa.com/BusinessAgreement.com and also aaa.com/businessagreement.com. We don't have two pages but for some reason, Google thinks we do.
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Ta
One element to check is causation of why the duplicates. Solve same as otherwise it maybe an ongoing problem.
Good luck.
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Don_quixote you are now my new hero !!! I can't thank you enough. You just solved my biggest headache of the past few days !!! I owe
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Hi
ok - you have duplicate pages. So it is a duplicate content issue. Same content same urls except for capitalisation. Further both pages are being indexed on google.
Recommend that as soon as possible - 301 this page https://episodealert.com/BusinessAssociate.aspx to https://episodealert.com/businessassociate.aspx
You should do this for all duplicate capitalisations across the site.
We solved one! Go get em..
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Hey Don_quixote,
I apologize for the jumble of words. I was a bit burnt out when searching for answers. So let me explain things a bit better. I recently tried screaming from and as running a site audit when I came across what looked like an issue. Under the duplicate filter I'm getting a few pages that have duplicate titles :
https://episodealert.com/businessassociate.aspx
https://episodealert.com/BusinessAssociate.aspxI'm a bit lost as what I need to do. I pretty new to the world of SEO, so again I apologize for the ramble in my original post.
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Hi
It does read like you have two pages.
Can you share the url or put both into the browser site: and see if indexed?
Alternatively, has it been indexed and later 301'ed?
Regards
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Hey Don, thanks for the reply, when I run an audit I'm getting two different pages: aaa.com/BusinessAgreement.com and also aaa.com/businessagreement.com. We don't have two pages but for some reason, Google thinks we do. Do you know what I should do about this?
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Hi
Concur with Joe, you will need to explain if you have upper case and lower case pages.. assuming same content and same url.. as that is a pure duplicate..
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- Why have the upper & lowercase case pages live
- Have you considered canonicalisation?
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