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I think it does so by PHP. Is there any easy way I can make sure?

Ok I get which page it is now but I do not understand the issue. There isnt a direct link to that blog post from any of the other pages crawled. And if you use either link they both work. The Column a link however does auto forward to the MaxAmps site equivalent page. Could it somehow have to do with this?

Okay I will be sure to try and implement this to the blog.

You seem to know how a php dynamic site builds itself from one page. May I ask you another question? We have been going through this duplicate page problem for a long time. I generally get the answer to redirect or canonical the pages. I understand how I can do this to our blog as it is in word press. However, the rest of our site is not. The category section of our page, for instance, generates depending on how the person gets there from one single page of coding. And that is for all of our categories, not just one. How can I implement a redirect or canonical to this type of site. I would not want all of the categories to lead to one particular category. So if I put the canonical tag in my category page with a single url than that won't work. Also if I use a redirct in this page it will still lead me to only one category (correct?) instead of the people having the option to go to several different categories.

Well, I am still having duplicate page issues.

I have a question about one of the errors SEO is giving me when I download a crawl report. I am going to attach a screen shot of part of the report so you can see for yourself, along with explaining it here.

SEO shows the list of URL's that it crawled in the report. In this(see attachment) portion of the report it has 321 results for the exact same URL. It also says all of these exact same URL's have received a 404 error. What I want to know is how does it make 321 results for the same URL? And with this error that I don't see when I look at the page?

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I am been trying to deal with this problem for some time now. I have talked to several IT people and SEO moz. None seem to know how to fix these issues on the type of site our company is.

Our biggest issue with is Duplicate Page Content. We also have some title issues. Our site is built with PHP coding and variable, meaning the site is not a typical static website. We have a handful of pages that are dynamic depending on what the users chooses to see and do.

So, my problem is I can't just go to a specific page and put the canonical or the redirect. It isn't multiple pages for our category pages, for example, it is just one that builds the page depending on the search.

Please help!

The link was very helpful. With the code that it shows you to use and my site having more than one duplicate would I need to add on to it for the "examples"?

So: (my writing is all in caps in this code)

#Force non-www:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.KILLBILLET.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://KILLBILLET.com/$1 [L,R=301]

is this really all I need? I do not need to enter in all of the URLs that lead to this homepage? Or am I thinking far too simply with this?
I greatly appreciate how much help you have given me. I will be looking into all the other things and if they are beyond me then I will get further help.

Thank you very much for the informative post and video. I have watched the video especially several times.

I have yet another question. One of my duplicate pages is the home page. This is a www no-www problem it looks like:

http://killbillet.com

http://www.killbillet.com/forum.php?s=9b0841ea53f918d77f12ba32487df7cahttp://www.killbillet.comHowever, when I go to the /cpanel of my site and try to put in a rel=canonical in the index.php file i find this:

/* Tell forum.php to redirect
to the default url as defined
in the navigation manager */
define('VB_REDIRECT', true);

Doesn't this already mean it is supposed to be redirected and shouldn't have a duplicate?

On top of that I am unsure of how to find each duplicate page. Yes, I understand that index.php is my homepage but if I find index.php in the includes is this the duplicate of the homepage even though the file size is different? And is this where the canonical is meant to go?

Hi there! Thank you for your response!

Here is an example of pages that are very similar (But ARE different pages) but the URLS are different: (20 duplicates)

http://www.maxamps.com/categories.php?cat=90

http://www.maxamps.com/categories.php?cat=86

Here is an example of the login page which has 50 duplicates but all lead to the same place; the login page:

http://www.maxamps.com/cart.php?mode=login&refurl=%2Fproducts.php%3Fcat%3D408

http://www.maxamps.com/cart.php?mode=login&refurl=%2Fproducts.php%3Fcat%3D259

http://www.maxamps.com/cart.php?mode=login&refurl=%2Fproducts.php%3Fcat%3D252

I assume this would be because of costumer ID numbers possibly? However, it is before signing in.

I obviously have pages that are very similar with their products and this must be the issue. However, as you said, I don't want to lose all of the other content by redirecting everything to this one page. The canonical does not seem correct either because they are not the same page over and over so I am really lost as to how I fix this, especially because I did think that this was mostly a URL issue.

My site has a problem with duplicate page content. SEO MOZ is telling me 725 pages worth. I have looked a lot into the 301 Re direct and the Rel=canonical Tag and I have a few questions:

First of all, I'm not sure which on I should use in this case. I have read that the 301 Redirect is the most popular path to take. If I take this path do I need to go in and change the URL of each of these pages or does it automatically change with in the redirect when I plug in the old URL and the new one? Also, do I need to just go to each page that SEO MOZ is telling me is a duplicate and make a redirect of that page?

One thing that I am very confused about is the fact that some of these duplicates listed out are actually different pages on my site. So does this just mean the URL's are too similar to each other, and there fore need the redirect to fix them? Then on the other hand I have a log in page that says it has 50 duplicates. Would this be a case in which I would use the Canonical Tag and would put it into each duplicate so that the SE knew to go to the original file?

Sorry for all of the questions in this. Thank you for any responses.