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We have a problem whereby a number of our urls are adressable from different urls - I'm told because of a quirk of developing in .net.

e.g.

mysite/FundComparison

mysite/Fund-comparison

mysite/fund-comparison

We asked our supplier who hosts this section of our site to do some url rewrites so that the duplicates would 301 to the correct url. They're on IIS 6.0 and are not ready to upgrade to IIS 7.0 (my recommendation, which makes it easier for them to do the rewrite using the rewrite module).

They said it would take 6-8 weeks to implement a web controller to do this.

"The bulk of the time for this implementation is in the build of the engine + the addition of all the possible permutations of the URL to redirect to the proper URL."

This sounds absolutely insane to me.

I would have thought it could be done in a matter of hours.

What do people think?

Thanks. This is the only solution I can think of too but the information on each of the tabs is actually different, so technically it is a unique page.

That said the likelihood of someone searching for such a specific subset of that data associated with one company or fund is arguably extremely low, which is why i wasn't sure whether to apply a canonical or not, just to reduce the noise.

I suppose another approach is to tell Google to ignore parameter 's' which forms part of the query which loads one of the subsets of data?

Slightly wary of doing that

Hi

I wonder if anyone can advise on something that's got me scratching my head.

The following are examples of urls which are deemed to have duplicate content and title tags. This causes around 8000 errors, which (for the most part) are valid urls because they provide different views on market data. e.g. #1 is the summary, while #2 is 'Holdings and Sector weightings'.

#3 is odd because it's crawling the anchored link. I didn't think hashes were crawled?

I'd like some advice on how best to handle these, because, really they're just queries against a master url and I'd like to remove the noise around duplicate errors so that I can focus on some other true duplicate url issues we have.

Here's some example urls on the same page which are deemed as duplicates.

1) http://markets.ft.com/Research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=IVPM:LSE

2. http://markets.ft.com/Research/Markets/Tearsheets/Holdings-and-sectors-weighting?s=IVPM:LSE

3. http://markets.ft.com/Research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=IVPM:LSE&widgets=1

What's the best way to handle this?