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Wordpress Duplicate Pages/ URL's - Help !
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Hi guys,
I have been running SEOMoz for just over a month and slowly cleaning up one of my Wordpress Blogs. While going through the crawl reports I have noticed that I have duplicate pages showing on the crawl.
For example, the main post would be; www.xxxxx.com/blog/post-title
Then I see another URL which would be; **www.xxxx.com/blog/page/59 **
When I click on either URL it goes back to the actual post title URL.
What's with these page URL's ? Isn't these two URL's showing duplicate content to the search engines ?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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HI Again
You are welcome -
Ok - they are two separate pages that have basically the same content (all be a couple of minor differences)
So - you have two options.
If http://www.datacenterscanada.com/blog/page/101/ doesn't have any links to it, nor is it getting much traffic, then you may as well delete it.
Otherwise do a 301 to http://www.datacenterscanada.com/blog/torix-peer-saskatchewan-telecommunications/
All the best
PH292 (uk)
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Thanks for the note.
Here is a simple example of a page that pulls up two different URLS.
http://www.datacenterscanada.com/blog/page/101/
http://www.datacenterscanada.com/blog/torix-peer-saskatchewan-telecommunications/
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Hya
Assuming it is as you say, that these two URLs in their own right (with no redirects in place) display exactly the same content - then yes, it is duplicate content.
If Google has cached one of these then do a 301 redirect from the non-cached URL to the cached one.
If neither have been cached (or you just don't know) then redirect the one that has the least optimised URL to the one with the optimised URL - I would guess the /blog/page/59 is the least optimised.
You can find out in Google itself (or YouTube) how to do a 301 if you don't know - or look is SEOmoz
Hope this helps, and all the best with it
PH292
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does it 301 to the other url?
can we have the url?
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