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Old January 22nd, 2008, 11:59 AM
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Let’s move from spelling errors to a canonical matter. I suppose you could still consider this a spelling issue, though. Is your site spelled www.yourdomain.com, yourdomain.com, or www.yourdomain.com/index.html? Think fast, because you get to pick only one. Google, however, will see all three – and its duplicate content alarms will go off. You can avoid this issue by deciding that one site spelling is canonical and using the appropriate redirects for the other spellings. From what I have read, the current consensus for the best URL format to use isn’t any of the ones listed above, but www.yourdomain.com/, with the slash on the end. Whichever format you use, be consistent.

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This was a quote from a SEO article I just read. It seems crazy to me that google would count this against you since most web sites can be accessed in this way by default. I could totally understand google just ignoring the other pages, but to penalize you, that doesn't seem right ... but I'm new at all this stuff.

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That's why they offer every webmaster the chance to correct this in their Webmaster Tools accounts.

Still, this isn't really much of an issue any more. I wonder why they put this in that new article?
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That's why they offer every webmaster the chance to correct this in their Webmaster Tools accounts.


Interesting I'll have to check that out,
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Sorry to semi-hijack this thread, but with regards to duplicate content and titles:

I receive some issues regarding this, but they are on "paginated" pages -
how do you go about combating this problem?

Just ignore it?
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Sorry to semi-hijack this thread, but with regards to duplicate content and titles:

I receive some issues regarding this, but they are on "paginated" pages -
how do you go about combating this problem?

Just ignore it?

Try to put the paginated page number in the title. That should do the trick.
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