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  • GBCweb
    GBCweb last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 3:46 PM

    Technical help required - please!
    In our Duplicate Content Pages Report I see a lot of duplicate pages that are created by one URL plus several versions of the same page with the dynamic content, for example,
    http://www.georgebrown.ca/immigranteducation/programs
    http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Study
    http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Term
    http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Certification
    http://www.georgebrown.ca/school-program.aspx?id=1909&Sortid=Title

    How do we solve it?

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    • GBCweb
      GBCweb @max.favilli last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 6:45 PM Mar 11, 2015, 6:45 PM

      Ektron CMS. Yah, will have to go with the noindex somehow.

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      • max.favilli
        max.favilli @GBCweb last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 6:44 PM Mar 11, 2015, 6:35 PM

        I don't know which CMS/framework you use but it's unlikely you can set canonical at template level.

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        • GBCweb
          GBCweb last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 5:24 PM Mar 11, 2015, 5:24 PM

          Oh!!! Just now realized a different problem with canonical.

          The same template is used with different URLs, for example, http://www.georgebrown.ca/immigranteducation/programs/ is the same template as http://www.georgebrown.ca/liberalarts/programs/, just with a different set of programs. We have 22 schools, each page creates 4 versions of itself (depending on the ordering of the programs).

          So there is no way to program ONE url on the template level. Do I understand that correct?

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          • max.favilli
            max.favilli @GBCweb last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 5:22 PM Mar 11, 2015, 5:20 PM

            Moz doesn't pick, just signal the duplicate content. If you add the canonical Moz should understand and un flag it as duplicate.

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            • GBCweb
              GBCweb @max.favilli last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 5:18 PM Mar 11, 2015, 5:18 PM

              1. I think I will go with a canonical tag.
              2. I believe noindex will not work as this is a template used in multiple page.

              3. Done that, but then MOZ reports them as duplicate content, which drives me crazy 🙂

              4. Done that too. But don't know how to tell MOZ 🙂

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              • max.favilli
                max.favilli last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 4:58 PM Mar 11, 2015, 4:58 PM

                • You can just add a canonical tag to signal google which version is the one to index.
                • Or add meta "noidex"to the versions you do not want to be indexed.
                • Or just do nothing and let google pick his preferred version for its index.
                • Or you can teach google what those url parameter do and instruct him to do not index those versions.

                I would programmatically add meta noindex.

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