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Thanks for your help. I'll give that a go and see what happens!

Cheers,

Chris

Hi,

I've recently had the misfortune of my site's ip address being crawled and indexed by Google, which is causing some duplicate content issues. Due to the nature of the site we're not able to implement a canonical tag to fix this at present.

Would a 301 redirect do the trick, and if so, could someone point me to what I'd need to add to our .htaccess file?

Many thanks

Chris

Have a look at your pagination too. If you've not got a 'show all' link it might be worth putting one in and making that the canonical. Should eliminate some of your duplicate content issues.

Thanks for the advice, guys.

Much appreciated.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Do we need to add the canonical tag to both versions of the page, i.e. on www1 and www2?

Our site switches between www1 and www2 depending on the server load, so (the way I understand it at least) we have two versions of the site.

My question is whether the search engines will consider this as duplicate content, and if so, what sort of impact can this have on our SEO efforts? I don't think we've been penalised, (we're still ranking) but our rankings probably aren't as strong as they should be.

The SERPs show a mixture of www1 and www2 content when I do a branded search. Also, when I try to use any SEO tools that involve a site crawl I usually encounter problems.

Any help is much appreciated!

Have a look at your pagination too. If you've not got a 'show all' link it might be worth putting one in and making that the canonical. Should eliminate some of your duplicate content issues.