Permalinks and duplicate content

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Last Post: March 14, 2019   (RSS)

By JeffC - March 5, 2019

My customer has started using an SEO company to improve the rankings of his site and they have flagged-up an issue. I'm not sure if what they are saying is accurate and, if it is, what i can do about it.

Basically, these two urls, which are actually the same page, are being flagged as duplicate content.

www.domain.co.uk/file.php?title-1 

www.domain.co.uk/title/

The seo company has asked me to remove one of them, which i obviously can't do.

Any advice as how how you deal with this scenario would be welcome.

Is there a chance that i have set up the permalinks incorrectly?

Thanks

Jeff

By Toledoh - March 5, 2019 - edited: March 5, 2019

You need to insert the following into the <head> code of each page:

<link href="<?php echo ($pageurl) ?>" rel="canonical" /> <!-- Required to stop duplicate pages in Webmaster Tools when using permalinks -->

Where the $pageurl is the full url of the page with the permalink.

Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

By daniel - March 5, 2019

Tim is correct that canonical URLs are the correct solution to this issue. For further reading and more technical specifics, I can recommend Google's documentation on duplicate content/canonical URLs: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

Cheers,

Daniel
Technical Lead
interactivetools.com