Duplicate content
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I have just ran a report in seomoz on my domain and has noticed that there are duplicate content issues, the issues are:
www.domainname/directory-name/
www.domainname/directory-name/index.php
All my internal links and external links point to the first domain, as i prefer this style as it looks clear & concise, however doing this has created duplicate content as within the site itself i have an index.php page inside this /directory-name/ to show the page.
Could anyone give me some advice on what i should do please?
Kind Regards
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Hi Gary,
Here's some code from an htaccess file I've used before that solves the issue you've got with index.php at the end of all your urls:
#remove /index.php and ensure admin works okay
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/administrator
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]
notice the line that contains ^/administrator , in Joomla, admin login is usuall on http://site.com/administrator/index.php
so, removing the index.php from the admin url would prevent any access to the admin screens! If your cms has a similar url, be sure to replace 'administrator' with the relevant url.
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Hi Ade,
Thanks for all your help.
I will post a new question on the Q&A Forum regarding the .htaccess rule.
Kind Regards
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Hi Gary,
That one is a bit beyond me I'm afraid and I am not familiar with WebEdition at all.
With most CMS there are normally either built-in or add-on extensions to help with re-writing your urls but you need to be really careful that you don't end up with a completely new set of urls that don't match either of your originals.
A .htaccess rewrite rule may be your best option but I don't know what the coding for it would be.
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We are using a CMS, its called WebEdition, is there a technical question i should ask them in what i need to do?
Kind Regards
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Ahhhh. No definitely not practical, I thought that it was just the one url.
Are you using a content management system for your site such as Joomla?
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Do you think that's practical to do that?
As i will need to do a 301 on literally every page if i don't want to show the /index.php
Is this what seomoz.org website does? for example:
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In that case you can just add a 301 redirect in to your .htaccess file below the code you added earlier.
redirect 301 /football-teams/index.php http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/
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Hi Ade,
Yes, i tested http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams//index.php however it did not resolve to http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/
Any ideas?
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Hi Gary.
Have you tried visiting the url http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/index.php to see if it now resolves to http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/ ?
If it does then the issue is fixed, the next time SEOMoz crawls your site the error will dissapear.
Cheers.
Ade.
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Hi Ade,
Thanks for the speedy reply.
I have now implemented this and works fantastic on the http://www.mydomain.com/
Thank you very much.
There is another issue however, i hope i can make sense here, here goes:
seomoz tool gives me back duplicate content on both these URL's
http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/
http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/index.php
I want to use http://www.mydomain.com/football-teams/ as this just look nice & clean.
What would be best practice to fix this issue?
Kind Regards
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Hey Gary.
Here's the solution that I use.
All my sites are hosted on a linux server so this won't be relevant if your site is hosted on a windows server.
1. create/modify your .htaccess file in your site's root directory.
2. Add the following code to the top of the file:-
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]This will ensure that any requests sent to http://yourdomain.com are redirected to http://www.yourdomain.com and that the index.php part of the url is removed.
If you need more help on creating or modifying your .htaccess file then you can find more info here - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html
All the best.
Ade.
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