How do I fix the error duplicate page content and duplicate page title?
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On my site www.millsheating.co.uk I have the error message as per the question title.
The conflict is coming from these two pages which are effectively the same page:
I have added a htaccess file to the root folder as I thought (hoped) it would fix the problem but I doesn't appear to have done so.
this is the content of the htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^millsheating.co.uk RewriteRule (.*) http://www.millsheating.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.millsheating.co.uk/ [R=301,L] AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
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Exactamundo!
Here is the high commander Matt Cutts with a run through on how it all works http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/.
Cheers,
Ross
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Hey thanks for the fast repay Ross
Would I place that in the head section of the index page like this -
Thanks again
Jay
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Hi Jason,
A much more simple fix would be to add a to the /index page. Google will attribute any page authority back to the root and not count the duplicated page.
Hope this helps.
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