Cloud Hosting and Duplicate content
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Hi
I have an ecommerce client who has all their images cloud hosted (amazon CDN) to speed up site. Somehow it seems maybe because the pinned the images on pinterest but the CDN got indexed and there now seems to be about 50% of the site duplicated (about 2500 pages eg: http://d2rf6flfy1l.cloudfront.net..)
Is this a problem with duplicate content? How come Moz doesnt show it up as crawl errors? Why is thisnot a problem that loads of people have?I only found a couple of mentions of such a prob when I googled it..
any suggestion will be grateful!
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you can set up a CNAME record to be used with CloudFront on copyfaxes.com. It could be something like images.copyfaxes.com if you are only using cloudFront to serve images.
I serve all my media content and scripts via WPEngine's CDN and use a CNAME to suggest all the content resides on my subdomain
eg: cdn.bestpremiumthemes.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Input-Form-Designs-100x65.png
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Hi there,
Cloudfront really should be blocking Google's indexing of its hosted contact - have you contacted the company about this? I am not familiar with their service, but content hosted to deliver to sites like yours should not be available for indexation, especially since the problem is rather large: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fd2rf6flf4rky1l.cloudfront%2F&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fd2rf6flf4rky1l.cloudfront%2F&aqs=chrome..69i58j69i57.677j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8
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Thanks for your answer - moz told me they don't pick it up because they only pick up duplicate content within the same url.
My issue is I have my site url http://copyfaxes.com and my CDN which is http://d2rf6flf4rky1l.cloudfront. net which is identical. Is this a problem?
(I think it got indexed through pinterest)
Any help would really be appreciated!
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Hi Henya,
CDNs do not cause problems with duplicate content, duplicate content issues if they come are usually sourced from something other than CDNs. As result this is possibly why MOZ is not picking it up.
CDNs serve content from different locations TRUE, however it is accessed via the SAME domain/URL. In other words one URL can be coming from different CDN/cloud servers, but since its that same identical URL, no duplicate content issues arise.
Hope this helps!
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