Duplicate page url crawl report
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Hello. Looking at the duplicate page url report that comes out of Moz, is the best tactic to a) use 301 redirects, and b) should the url that's flagged for duplicate page content be pointed to the referring url? Not sure where the 301 redirect should be applied...
should this url, for example:
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| http://newgreenair.com/website/blog/ |which is listed in the first column of the Duplicate Page Content crawl, be pointed to referring url in the same spreadsheet? Or, what's the best way to apply the 301 redirect? thanks!
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Also, if it is a WWW vs. Non-WWW issue, make sure to go into Google search console and set the preferred domain for your site properly.
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In that case, you want to be resolving this through your .htaccess file really. There are other possible ways, but I find that this is the most solid solution.
Do you know how to do that?
If you are on Wordpress, it might also be worthwhile checking your settings and ensure you have the site set to your preferred choice, and that the site is verified in Search Console.
-Andy
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Yes it does look that way.
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Hi Susan,
First of all, I would want to know what is causing the duplication before I would advise on how best to handle it.
Is it that you have pages that are both www and non-www?
For example, do you have http://newgreenair.com/website/blog/ and http://www.newgreenair.com/website/blog/?
-Andy
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