What is the best way to handle these duplicate page content errors?

[ElykInnovation]

MOZ reports these as duplicate page content errors and I'm not sure the best way to handle it.

Home
http://myhjhome.com/
http://myhjhome.com/index.php

Blog
http://myhjhome.com/blog/
http://myhjhome.com/blog/?author=1

Should I just create 301 redirects for these?

• 301 http://myhjhome.com/index.php to http://myhjhome.com/ ?
• 301 http://myhjhome.com/blog/?author=1 to http://myhjhome.com/ ?

Or is there a better way to handle this type of duplicate page content errors?

and

[Felip3]

You can just add a canonical url tag.

http://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

[SteveWebb]

Hi Joseph,

You can handle both of these issues pretty easily:

Home - you can redirect /index.php with a few simple lines in your site's .htaccess file:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

However, instead of adding these lines manually, you can simply turn on "Pretty Permalinks" in WordPress (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks for more details), and they should get added automatically.

Blog - since you're using WordPress, I recommend installing Yoast's SEO plugin (it's free - http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/).  Then, you can correct the ?author=1 issue by disabling author archives.  Here's a quick reference for other functionality offered by the plugin: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

I hope that helps!

Cheers,
Steve