Thank you Moosa, I really appreciate the help!

Good afternoon Mozzers,

One of our clients is a real estate agent and on that site there is a search field that will allow a person to search by filtered categories. Currently, the URL structure makes a new URL for each filter option and in my Moz reports I get the report that there is missing meta data. However, the page is the same the filter options are different so I am at a loss as to how to proper tag our site to optimize those URL's. Can I rel canonical the URL's or alt rel them?

I have been looking for a solution for a few days now and like I said I am at a loss of how to properly resolve these warning messages, or if I should even be concerned with the warning messages from Moz (obviously I should be concerned, they are warning messages for a reason).

Thank you for your assistance in advance!

Lynn,

Good morning. I tried the above suggestion and it worked! Thank you for your help with this issue!

The following is the full htaccess file for the site in question. The CMS that we are using on this site is drupal, with cPanel on the backend server side. I originally thought there was a line that of code that was causing this ( I will be honest, I do not know what each line commands) but when I checked it against other htaccess files the code appeared to be the same.

Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://domain.com/$1" [R=301,L]

That is the code that I have currently in my htaccess file. However, the issue is that with this code in my htaccess file I am having an issue where when i type in the URL to log into the site;

domain.com/admin

With the redirect active I get redirected to the following URL structure;

domain.com/index.php?q=admin

which is a page that does not exist and therefore gives me a 404 error.

If I remove

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I can log in. However, this brings back all of the duplicate www. and non-www. issues.

Lynn,

Sorry for the vagueness of the question. The issues I am getting in my Moz report is duplicate content issues resulting from the indexing of both the www. and non-www. sites. I have set my preferred url in WT to be the non-www. and so I want to 301 redirect the www to non-www so I am done in one step, but it appears that in doing this in C-panel causes an issue with the login by appending the /index.html at the end of the login url creating a 404 error. I know I can remove the code to login again from the htaccess file but in removing the redirect I get duplicate content errors again. I was hoping to avoid redirecting every individual page. But is that the solution? Thanks again for the info.

Using the redirect function in cPanel I am able to create the 301 redirect that I need to not have duplicate content issues in Moz. However, the issue now is that when I try to login to domain.com/login it redirects to domain.com/index.php?q=admin, which is not a page on the site and I can no longer login.

I have checked the htaccess file and it appears that the entry is correct ( I originally thought that the cPanel redirect was not writing access correctly ). I am not sure if there is a small detail that I am missing with this or not.

So my main question is how do I redirect my site to remove dup content errors while retaining the login at domain.com/admin and not be redirected to domain.com/index.php?q=admin? Thank you ahead of time for your assistance.