Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Thank you all for taking the time so far to provide some suggestions and comments,

Can i just double check that there is no techinical way around this other than making the content for each site as unique as possible?

Hi All

We are in the process of adding a franchise model to our exisitng stand alone business and as part of the package given to the franchisee will be a website with conent identical to our existing website apart from some minor details such as contact and address details.

This creates a huge duplicate content issue and even if we implement a cannonical approach to this will still be unfair to the franchisee in terms of their markeitng and own SEO efforts.

The url for each franchise will be unique but the content will be the same to a large extend. The nature of the service we offer (professional qualificaitons) is such that the "products" can only be described in a certain way and it will be near on in impossible to have a unique set of "product" pages for each franchisee.

I hope that some of you have come across a similar problem or that some of you have suggestions or ideas for us to get round this.

Kind regards

Peter

Hi Keri

Thanks for your input. As far as I’m aware DNN can't handle URLs without the file extensions, always seemed a bit behind when it came to SEO and is definitely not the most SEO friendly CMS out there.

Would like to get rid of the file extenstion as it just seems a bit more use friendly from the start and as you righly said this will shorten the url a bit as well.

Thanks again,

Hi Sebastian

Thank you very much for such a quick response,

I think you have just confirmed my "gut" feeling. The pages were already doing  well for a "newish" site with some big initial jumps up the rankings.

Not going to try and fix something that is not broken.

Really appreciate your advice, really think that this community is the best EVER.

Thank you

Peter

Hi All

I am currently working on a DotNetNuke site. I have enabled friendly URL's which have changed the url structure from the default setting of TabId=x to whatever the page name is set as.

I will use the following page as an example -

www.notarealdomain./graphicdesign.aspx

Now I would like to know if it would be worth my time to change this to "/graphic-design.aspx through the use of a 301 redirect and/or a rel=can.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks