Comments on: Duplicate Content & URL Canonicalization – SEO Tip 7 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/ Blog about Search Engine Optimization and Internet marketing Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Golland http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-3604 Golland Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:51:19 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-3604 Great tip. Unfortunately my site is on a windows server and the hosting company told me I can't use 301 re-directs. Time to find a new host I think! Great tip.

Unfortunately my site is on a windows server and the hosting company told me I can’t use 301 re-directs.

Time to find a new host I think!

]]> By: manos http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-3497 manos Sun, 31 May 2009 23:36:28 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-3497 I have already redirect with .htaccess my (http://mysite.com) to (http://www.mysite.com) Do I have to also do the same for (http://mysite.com/index.html) and (http://www.mysite.com/index.html) to redirect to http://www.mysite.com?? Also most of the webmasters use dreamware or frontpage and link from inside... what I mean is, we have to make 301 redirect only for domain or for sub-pages too??? I have already redirect with .htaccess my (http://mysite.com) to (http://www.mysite.com)
Do I have to also do the same for (http://mysite.com/index.html) and (http://www.mysite.com/index.html) to redirect to http://www.mysite.com??
Also most of the webmasters use dreamware or frontpage and link from inside…
what I mean is, we have to make 301 redirect only for domain or for sub-pages too???

]]> By: DNL http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-561 DNL Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:48:38 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-561 I haven't experienced any problem or rankings drop when using www and non-www version of a site at the same time. Or some link pointing to index.html instead of root. But is always better to add those lines of code in .htaccess file if you can do it. And I saw once 2 different sites on www.domain.com and domain.com. I think they were hosted on 2 servers and 2 different DNS used for each one. Kinda funny for me..:D I haven’t experienced any problem or rankings drop when using www and non-www version of a site at the same time. Or some link pointing to index.html instead of root. But is always better to add those lines of code in .htaccess file if you can do it.
And I saw once 2 different sites on http://www.domain.com and domain.com. I think they were hosted on 2 servers and 2 different DNS used for each one. Kinda funny for me..:D

]]> By: Shell Harris http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-559 Shell Harris Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:34:14 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-559 Sam, You should contact your host to see if they can make the changes for you, but you can control it by accessing files such as .htaccess on your server, if you are hosting on a Unix system. Your host is a good place to start if you are unfamiliar with the inner workings of your server set up. The different urls should show the same information, after all it is showing the "default page" that is identified by the server. Usually this is an index.html or default.html page. The extensions can be different, but you get the picture. So there shouldn't be any worry of different pages showing up. Finally you can tell Google which version you want to show up. You have to sign up for webmaster account and verify that you are the owner of the site, but ther are other nice features provided by Google's webmaster tools to make it worth your while, besides telling them what your preferred domain should be. You can sign up here <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/">http://www.google.com/webmasters/</a> I agree they should be directed by default, but alas that isn't the way it works. Sam,
You should contact your host to see if they can make the changes for you, but you can control it by accessing files such as .htaccess on your server, if you are hosting on a Unix system. Your host is a good place to start if you are unfamiliar with the inner workings of your server set up.

The different urls should show the same information, after all it is showing the “default page” that is identified by the server. Usually this is an index.html or default.html page. The extensions can be different, but you get the picture. So there shouldn’t be any worry of different pages showing up.

Finally you can tell Google which version you want to show up. You have to sign up for webmaster account and verify that you are the owner of the site, but ther are other nice features provided by Google’s webmaster tools to make it worth your while, besides telling them what your preferred domain should be.

You can sign up here http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I agree they should be directed by default, but alas that isn’t the way it works.

]]> By: sam http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-560 sam Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:07:35 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/duplicate-content-url-canonicalization/#comment-560 awesome tip! I think this has caused me some problems which I will now fix. It seems like this is something that should happen automatically somehow. Are there hosts that do this by default? Are there ways that http://www.samwilson3d.com and http://samwilson3d.com could even show 2 different pages? If why would you want this and if not why are they not redirected by default? awesome tip! I think this has caused me some problems which I will now fix. It seems like this is something that should happen automatically somehow. Are there hosts that do this by default? Are there ways that http://www.samwilson3d.com and http://samwilson3d.com could even show 2 different pages? If why would you want this and if not why are they not redirected by default?

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