Duplicate content?

Apparently seomoz.org detects my URL with duplicate content/title while it's the same page, how do I fix this?

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You see it says duplicate title/content while it's the same page, how do I fix this? Thanks.

bump!

Do you have a non-www to www, or vice versa, redirect in place?

Yeah, I got a redirect using .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?website\.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.%1website.net%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

looking at that graph, is it not the trailing index.html thats its flagging up?

this should redirect /index.html to your root url:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index.php HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

milian said:

looking at that graph, is it not the trailing index.html thats its flagging up?

this should redirect /index.html to your root url:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index.php HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

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Using the code you provided gives me error 500.

zerofoxtrot said:

Using the code you provided gives me error 500.

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Activate mod_rewrite on your server. Mostly you can do this by editing the php.ini - if you a re on a shared host, just ask you provider.

Does this issue conflict with SERP? Because in search results they appear correctly...

zerofoxtrot said:

Using the code you provided gives me error 500.

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Thats the only thing with htaccess, there are so many different ways of doing the same redirect, and when you don't have the site in front of you, you don't know which ones are going to work and which one will break the site.

try this one: (if this one doesnt work, Google 'redirect trailing index file' and you will find other way to do it)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.sitenamehere\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.sitenamehere.com/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]

subster said:

Activate mod_rewrite on your server. Mostly you can do this by editing the php.ini - if you a re on a shared host, just ask you provider.

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If his other redirect is working, this must already be on.

zerofoxtrot said:

Yeah, I got a redirect using .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?website\.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.%1website.net%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

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don't want to state the obvious, but this is actually working yeah?

zerofoxtrot said:

Does this issue conflict with SERP? Because in search results they appear correctly...

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Not right now as its not in the SERPS, but trailing /index.html duplicates of the home page, and duplicates such as 'www' and 'non-www' can get indexed causing duplicates content, and link juice can be lost if links have been built to different versions that are in SERPS. So yeah a redirect should be used, or canonical if you cat get the redirect working.