Duplicate content and what to say to my webmaster

[Ken_Jansen]

Hi,

SEOmoz is telling me I have a duplicate content issue between

kansascityrealestate dot com and

kansascityrealestate dot com/Real-Estate-Homes-Kansas-City.asp

my webmaster says Google should figure out is the same page.

Suggestions on what to do and how to explain it to the webmaster?

Thank you.

[katemorris]

Happy to help Send all my best to your daughter, us Kate's must stick together

[saibose]

This is a classical case with websites where same content is found on 2 different URLs of the website.

1st of all, ask your webmaster to do a 301 of your 2nd url to your homepage. Tell him that since the content is duplicate, it makes no sense to ask Google to crawl 2 pages with the same content.

If you cannot do a redirect, you can add a rel=canonical tag to your meta to tell Google that the 2 URLs have same content.

[Ken_Jansen]

Thank you, Joe (or Joel), very nice of you to answer. I appreciate it.

[Ken_Jansen]

Thank you, Kate. My daughter's name is Kate as well. I appreciate your help.

[katemorris]

Your webmaster is right, Google will notice that they are the same. The issue with that is that crawl time is then spent on two exactly same pages. One will not show in the results, so why even have Google or any other search engine crawl it? It's a waste of their time and yours. I wanted to see the duplicate content but can't find the second page. If they are exact duplicates and the other one holds no value, 301 redirect it to the homepage and find the links to it, email webmasters to change the links. If there is a reason for it to exist, then slap on a rel canonical to the homepage.

Best of luck!