Duplicate Page Content
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Hi within my campaigns i get an error "crawl errors found" that says duplicate page content found, it finds the same content on the home pages below. Are these seen as two different pages? And how can i correct these errors as they are just one page?
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Sorry for the delay in reply but thanks a lot for the info. This site is hosted on godaddy can all the above be done via their website management tools?
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Hey Kevin
This is a common problem and is easily solved with a bit of URL rewriting.
Seeing that you are using PHP pages I will assume you are using a linux / apache web server so you need to create a .htaccess file. This is a configuration file that is processed by the web server and that you can use to tap into additional functionality from the web server.
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinksRewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./Home_Page.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.poolstar.net/$1 [R=301,L]It looks like you are also returning the same content at the www. and non www versions of the site as well so you want to pick one and stick with it. A quick look at open site explorer shows more links to the www. version so I would go with that but you are only looking at 2 to www and 1 to the non www version so if you have some other strong reason to use the domain without the www then don't worry about this too much (but tweak the below).
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^poolstar.net RewriteRule (.*) http://www.poolstar.net/$1 [R=301,L]
The full thing should look like the following *
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^poolstar.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.poolstar.net/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.poolstar.net/ [R=301,L]
***** it should end here but the code highlighter is playing up *****
- Some servers are a little different and you may or may not need the follow symlinks or rewrite base lines. Try the above, if that does not work, give me a shout, happy to help.
Hope it helps
Marcus -
From now on link to your homepage as http://poolstar.net/ and set a 301 redirect in place from http://poolstar.net/Home_page.php to http://poolstar.net/
Not that it is any of my business, but I would really recommend to have someone redesign your website. It looks rather 1998 at the moment which is most likely costing you new customers and possibly (after Google Panda) is making it harder for you to rank high in the search engines as well.
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