How to avoid duplicate content for search engines

Tuesday 09 June 2009 1:39:50 am

Hi there,

I have some questions on search engine optimization. I did everything to avoid duplicate content on our site (e.g. 302 redirect from domain.com/article to www.domain.com/article) and everything works fine.

BUT:
As you know, articles can be found within their "original view URL" and with their "nice URL". For example the same article can be found at:

<b>http://www.domain.com/content/view/full/960</b>
and
<b>http://www.domain.com/Folder/Content/200906/Title-of-Article</b>

I only use nice-URL in my links on the site, but for any reason google fetches the "original URL" in its index. And so we have a beautiful example for duplicate content....

So has anyone an idea, how to avoid this? The best solution would be a 302 redirect, if the original url is called - but i've no idea how to do ...

Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Mike

Tuesday 09 June 2009 12:18:56 pm

If you worry about duplicate content use <link> tag to specify your preferred version of page (URL address).

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

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Wednesday 10 June 2009 4:38:40 am

Hi guys,

Thanks for your response.
I think the easiest way would be to define the <link> Tag.

But I'm really interested in the workflow solution. I read the documentation, but it is really short. Do you have a link to a manual or some tutorials about how to write and implement an own workflow event?

Thanks & regards,
Michael

Thursday 18 June 2009 1:25:42 am

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