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Uh-Oh! Discovered Dup. Pages On My Site. Now What?

by Evita
2 replies
Discovered some duplicate pages on my site.
mysite.com/long_tail_key_word.html
and: mysite.com/long-tail-key-word.html
Both sets of pages are indexed.

What is the best way to fix this?
I went to webmaster tools and requested the pages be removed.
Was that the right thing to do?
What else should I do? Delete the pages from my server?

Sofar I've found 2 sets of dup pages. How will something like this affect
your rankings, PR etc?

Thanks,

Evita
#discovered #dup #pages #site #uhoh
  • Profile picture of the author sridhar
    Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
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  • Profile picture of the author Sean Donahoe
    One quick thing you can do is if you identify dupes then redirct them from your htaccess file. Add something like this:

    Code:
    Redirect permanent /long_tail_key_word.html long-tail-key-word.html
    Another common way to avoid dupes is the www and non-www pages fix:

    Code:
    Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
    This makes sure all non-www are redirected to full www links

    Hope that helps you

    Sean Donahoe
    The Manic Marketer
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