Duplicate home page URL on crawl test
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Hi i just recently made a crawl test but before doing that i made sure that i have no more duplicates on my site i am using joomla and as of now i only have 11 links on my site but when my crawl test is done i saw duplicate url of my homepage the duplicate url has a trailing backslash
so basically i have all the 11 links + 1 duplicate URL
can you guys give advise how i can remove the duplicate i dont even know which one to retain.
THANKS A LOT,
cris
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You're welcome! Let us know if the problem keeps happening...
Best,
Luis
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thank you very much for your patience
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Cristina,
I could crawl and check it with my tools real time but I have no access to your sites. Anyways, everything seems correct as per your check report (your picture).
I would like to add that you don't need to worry too much for the problem with the trailing backslash, since both (with/without) are the same page and it's not a real duplicate content problem.
Hope my answer was clear and helpful!!
Luis
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sorry about the confusion. Actually they are the same and i use fake domain to cover the real domain for personal reason. im sorry about that so you think everything is fine with my site? then the crawl test via moz is not real time? probably from a cache. I will make another test probably on the next 4 days just to be sure.
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Hey Cris,
Everything seems correct at your check report. But please let us know, at your initial question you asked about the domain http://mangthomas.com and at your picture I can only see http://malay-jobs.net. Which domain you need to check?
Luis
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hello again guys seems like almost all softwares including online like opensiteexplorer and google webmaster has a delay on checking internal links so i tried downloading and installing the free screaming from seo spider for a real time crawl. Can someone take a look at my attached file its a screenshot produced by the software as what i have understood i have 11 links that has title and description so those are my pages. I cant find the non backslash version of my homepage so it means all is well? i really need someone who can explain the attached result.
*seems like the attached file was reduced to its original size if anyone wants to see it clearly pls click the link below
http://i.imgur.com/QGBEd4h.png
Thanks a lot guys,
cris
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Hello Cris,
Please, could you check if you have any internal link that links to your homepage with the trailing backslash into the URL? If you find this link, and change it probably you will solve the problem of duplicate items.
In my sites, I usually find this particular issues and the solution is always that one.
By the way, your site looks unavailable right now...! I wanted to check.
Good luck,
Luis
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hi guys thanks for fast response i already have a 301 direct and when i tried to access my site with backslash it just redirects to my homepage with no backslash so i guess the 301 redirect is working but how come that MOZ crawl test still detect my homepage as 2 different URL
thanks
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If you are using Joomla duplication will be a gift you will receive with that! Anyways, this is a basic level duplication. All you have to do is to 301 redirect the duplicate URL to the version that is preferred by you!
Hope this helps!
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Hi,
This page might help http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html
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Hi Cristina,
I would prefer to keep http://mangthomas.com/ because it is an index page.
Use 301 redirect the non slash version to the slash version to remove duplicate URL.
Thanks
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