Duplicate content
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This is just a quickie:
On one of my campaigns in SEOmoz I have 151 duplicate page content issues! Ouch!
On analysis the site in question has duplicated every URL with "en"
e.g
http://www.domainname.com/en/Fashion/Mulberry/SpringSummer-2010/
http://www.domainname.com/Fashion/Mulberry/SpringSummer-2010/
Personally my thoughts are that are rel = canonical will sort this issue, but before I ask our dev team to add this, and get various excuses why they can't I wanted to double check i am correct in my thinking?
Thanks in advance for your time
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LOL I don't know why, but I'm addicted to this Q&A : )
I like helping people, and I think that is why I like SEO so much. It allows me to help people achieve something they themselves would not be able to.
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Thanks Thomas, I'll need it!
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Thanks Goodnews, I agree also that Richard is the Q&A answering dude!
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Four votes for canoicalize. This is the text book example of what the tag was made for.
Good luck persuading dev team
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Richard, you are a Q&A answering animal dude!
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Hey Sean: I triple agree with Richard and Petra. Canonicalize
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On hand the canonical can take care of that if there were only a few cases, but if you have the entire site duplicate, one version with normal URLs and another within a directory called /en/, then I would 301 redirect the /en/ version of every page to the right/original one, also use the site: operator to see how big the duplicate content issue is on indexed pages.
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Thanks Petra: I must say this new beta system for Q&A is very effecient!
Best Regards
Sean
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I agree, too
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yes, I would conanicalize.
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