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How to fix SSL duplicate content?

by rocketmoto
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I have a wordpress site that recently had added SSL certificate and now have checked the site for duplicate content using SiteLiner and it said that only 1% of content is unique.

After looking over the duplicate content graph the main reason is because it's counting http and https of all the pages as having the exact same content.

For example:

http://www.mydomain.com/example

https://www.mydomain.com/example

Of course both those URLs have the same content so now have a very high duplicate content score.

Anyone know how to fix this? All of the http are already being redirected to https as well.
#content #duplicate #fix #ssl
  • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
    Sounds like you didn't set up the redirect properly in WordPress, go back to your general settings and make sure that the url boxes are properly set up.

    If they are, and assuming you have the most recent version of WordPress, the CMS should be handling the redirects to the https version for you automatically.

    If it's not, you need to program it yourself in the htaccess file. If you don't know how to do that, find someone on Upwork to code it for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author richardZ
    You can do it by .htaccess. Checkout answer with code how to do it from here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...-https-into-wo
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  • Profile picture of the author siyaab
    Search engines like Google have a problem. They call it ‘duplicate content’. Duplicate content means that similar content is being shown on multiple locations (URLs) on the web. As a result, search engines don’t know which URL to show in the search results. This can hurt the ranking of a webpage. Especially when people start linking to all the different versions of the content, the problem becomes bigger. This article is meant for you to understand the different causes of duplicate content, and to find the solution for each of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    There's nothing wrong with that. It's normal.

    In fact, it's what needs to be done if setting up a secure website like that.

    You want a non-secure version. For a whole host of reasons.
    (Logging in is a different story, so is buying, etc.)

    If your site is nothing but content, you need both versions.

    Yes it's duplicate content, but duplicate content by itself is not bad.

    The internet runs on duplicate content.

    If you do dumb things with ssl, you could take your site down the road to ruin.

    Paul
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