An odd duplicate content issue...
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Hi all,
my developers have just assured me that nothing has changed form last week but in the today's crawl I see all the website duplicated:
and the difference on the url is the '/' so basically the duplicated urls are:
htts://blabla.bla/crop
htts://blabla.bla/crop/
Any help in understanding why is much appreciated.
thanks
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you currently have
https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ & https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ with that problem
These are the internal links you need to change to fix it
<colgroup><col width="393"> <col width="109"> <col width="83"></colgroup>
| URL | Anchor Text | Alt text |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Apply Now |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Close |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | here |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Policies |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Articles |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ |
| rss logo |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ |
| addthis logo |<colgroup><col width="393"> <col width="109"> <col width="83"></colgroup>
| URL | Anchor Text | Alt text |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/faqs-about-loans | Contact us here! |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | Close |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | here |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | Policies |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | Articles |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ |
| rss logo |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ |
| addthis logo |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/faqs-about-loans/ | Contact us here! |
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Hi,
thanks for your email.
I do have a duplicated content issue on the basis of the seomoz crawl, and when I check the duplicated url it shows me those two (as an example but this work for all the entire website):
https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/
and
https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans
I will check what you say...
thanks
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you probably have internal links pointing to htts://blabla.bla/crop & to htts://blabla.bla/crop/
You can use screaming frog to find where those links are and fix them, but Google's algorithm is smart enough to figure this one out. I'd be very surprised if you experience any duplicate content issues because of this.
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