Removed .html - Now Get Duplicate Content
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Hi there,
I run a wordpress website and have removed the .html from my links.
Moz has done a crawl and now a bunch of duplicated are coming up.
Is there anything I need to do in perhaps my htaccess to help it along?
Google appears to still be indexing the .html versions of my links
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Handle this with care and I'm not responsible for breaking anything on your site.
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ http://new.site.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
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Ive just spent the past 30 minutes looking into it...care to give me a few hints on what I need to put in my .htaccess
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Google will probably eventually drop the old links. But it's probably a good idea to add a redirect to your .htaccess file to redirect all links ending on .html.
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I should clarify, I have a plugin that dynamically creates link on a single page I have.
http://cdkeyprices.com/product/Batman-Arkham-Origins-CD-Key
It was in this plugin that I removed the .html
The other areas of the site which were under Wordpress control, already had the .html removed some time ago and are not having issues.
Perhaps this might be a little harder then I originally thought!
Will Google eventually drop the old links?
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Hi Mark,
How did you remove the .html from the links? That's quite crucial to know to see how you can fix this issue.
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