Duplicate content.
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Hi there....we're dealing with a duplicate content mess.
We're a franchisor(www.kitchensolvers.com), and each of our franchises have their own landing page. The trouble is, the way the landing pages are set up, it's causing all the links available on the national level of the website to be re-indexed each time for every franchise!
We don't have an in-house developer and was wondering if anyone else has had similar issues and point me in the right direction.
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Thanks again Bevelwise...you've been extremely helpful. We just signed up for PRO account and it's totally worth it! Awesome resource.
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A really great write up that Rand did in regards to canonical tags is here in SEOMoz's blog it's from a while back but still relevant today.
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Thanks for the quick response, Bevelwise....I'll ask our local web guy about this.
The franchise pages are populated dynamically from a MySQL database....I like the idea of adding the canonical info dynamically. Seems like to right way to go! Is there any resources you'd recommend for more info on canonical names?
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I believe that canonical tags are going to be the answer for you. This would be a per page thing you would need to add, but if you add http://www.kitchensolvers.com/services/"/> on the Services page even if a spider navigates through one of your franchisees sections of the website and this happens: http://www.kitchensolvers.com/RochesterHills/services/ then the canonical tag will tell the search engines that they really need to see this page as http://www.kitchensolvers.com/services/
Depending on how much resources you have you may be able to find a developer who could figure this out and do it dynamically or manually is another option if you don't have a developer available.
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