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        • CarlS
          CarlS last edited by

          Hey Guys,

          I had a quick look around however I couldn't find a specific answer to this.

          Currently, the SEOmoz tools come back and show a heap of duplicate content on my site. And there's a fair bit of it.

          However, a heap of those errors are relating to random capitals in the urls.

          for example.

          "www.website.com.au/Home/information/Stuff" is being treated as duplicate content of "www.website.com.au/home/information/stuff" (Note the difference in capitals).

          Anyone have any recommendations as to how to fix this server side(keeping in mind it's not practical or possible to fix all of these links) or to tell Google to ignore the capitalisation?

          Any help is greatly appreciated.

          LM.

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          • dimitreliasb
            dimitreliasb Subscriber @AlanMosley last edited by

            The IIS url-rewrite addon works great!

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            • AlanMosley
              AlanMosley @nans last edited by

              From my memory Google does treat urls as case sensitive.

              Best to keep al urls as lower case.

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              • nans
                nans @AlanMosley last edited by

                Thanks for your reply Alan!

                Bing is irrelevant in Belgium 🙂 Maybe marketshare of 0,00005 or so 🙂

                When I look at the SEOMoz crawling reports I panic, but when I look at GWT, I'm happy... The difference is huge.

                So, no sure I will keep on using these reports..

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                • AlanMosley
                  AlanMosley @nans last edited by

                  I don't know that Google does ignore it. anyhow Bing does not http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-canonical-formats

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                  • nans
                    nans last edited by

                    If Google ignores the mixed usage of capitals in URL's, then why is the SEOMoz reporting it? If it is irrelevant, why not leaving it out?? It takes quite some work to filter out the irrelevant stuff!

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                    • CarlS
                      CarlS @semshah143 last edited by

                      Thanks Semil - The same duplicates are not showing in Google Webmaster Tools, for instance SEOMoz is showing 639 duplicate page content and 646 duplicate page titles. Webmaster tools is 88 and 37 respectively.

                      Looking into the numbers in SEOmoz again (and they've risen since the original post) there's a huge number which fall under the capitalisation discussed but also some which seem to register as HTTPS and HTTP.

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                      • CarlS
                        CarlS @AlanMosley last edited by

                        Thanks Alan - I'll get on this...

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                        • AlanMosley
                          AlanMosley last edited by

                          Yes its seen as too different urls

                          http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-canonical-formats

                          If you are uisng a windows server (IIS), you can fix this easy by using the IIS url-rewrite addon. it had a rewite as lowercase preset

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                          • IanTheScot
                            IanTheScot last edited by

                            Google does count this as duplicate content. Semil is right. You want to have someone do url rewrites on the server side to 301 these to lowercase.

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                            • semshah143
                              semshah143 last edited by

                              Hi LucasM,

                              Yes its possible by server side that you cant open a url with capital letters if you are using small letters.

                              But I dont think google will talke capitalisation in consideration.

                              Is it showing you in Google webmaster tool in duplicate titles and duplicate descriptions ?

                              If its showing then ask your coder to play with .htaccess to stop opening a url with different small - capital letter combination.

                              Thanks,

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