Is tracking code added to the end of a URL considered duplicate content
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I have two URLs one with a tracking coded and one without.
http://www.towermarketing.net/lets-talk-ux-baby and
http://www.towermarketing.net/lets-talk-ux-baby/**#.U6ghgLEz64I **
My question is will this be considered as two separate URLs, will Google consider this as two pages with duplicate content. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.
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Good advice. Thanks
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Very much appreciated
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Most people use these pages for tracking only, and set them to no-index so Google doesnt pick them up. I'm guessing you have tracking set up to analyze the traffic and attachement rate for that article? A hashtag is genearally used to point to an anchor point on that page. You currently have two URLs with the same content.
As Oleg said, I would be sure to add a canonical link for that page.
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Agree totally with what you said. One thing I would like to add, and this is just my assumption, the #. tracking system is unique to addthis. I would be willing to be some how Google keeps track of these unique tracking patterns and disregards them.
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It shouldn't (its a hashtag anchor, not a new variable) but add a canonical url to the page anyways to avoid all duplicate content issues
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