How to get rid of those duplicate pages
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Hi eveyone
Just got my first diagnostics report and i got 220 duplicate page titles and 217 duplicate content pages.
I know why this has happened it is because i did play about a bit and did originally have:-
www.mydomainname.com/index.php/alpha
Then i change the page path to:-
Then i change the page path to:-
www.mydomainname.com/category/alpha
So now when i get crawled i have 3x duplicate page titles, descriptions and page content. Even when i have put 301 redirects to my preferred domain path. Which is hurting my seo, right?
How do i stop theold domains from giving me these bad reports?
The site is on Joomla
Thanks guys
Oujipickle
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Thanks!
Very helpful. (+1)
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After much searching, I found this little number http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/meta-data/5139
Just put your canonical tag in between these {tag}{/tag} and drop it in your article and it places it in the head of your page.
Bit long winded especially if you have the amount i had but it will hopefully get me by.
Thanks both
Ouji
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This is an issue I`ve dealt with over and over again for Joomla sites.
I had some good results with Canonical URL Module but didn
t use it yet for 2.5 so I
m reluctant to suggest it.I
m currently working with our Dev. Team to solve this for K2 - as far as I know, if you are a K2 user you
ll need a custom solution.(yes I
m aware of K2 canonical plugin and no, I don
t recommend it)GL
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Thanks Christopher
Will check some out and report back.
Any good, free and simple ones for 2.5 version amyone can reccommend
Oujipickle
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Search the Joomla Extensions directory and choose one of the canonicalization extensions. Just search for "Canonical"
These extensions will add a canonical meta tag to the pages to say which one is most important. This saves all the link juice to just one page, and will clear up most of your duplicate pages.
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