Dup Content - ASP.NET Web Forms (Default.aspx)
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What are some best practices or tips for handling duplicate content issues for sites built on ASP.NET Web Forms?
One duplicate content issue I see all the time is www.xyz.com/pages/ and www.xyz.com/pages/Default.aspx. While I'm able to canonicalize the www and non-www version of the domain in the web config file I'm not sure what the best way is to remove or keep the default.aspx from being indexed.
I know we can specify certain parameters for the search engines to ignore but isn't it better to have this done on the server side?
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