Comments on: Content Duplication http://www.seo-jerusalem.com/content-duplication/ SEO and more Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.seo-jerusalem.com/content-duplication/comment-page-1/#comment-29 admin Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:46:26 +0000 http://www.seo-jerusalem.com/?p=266#comment-29 Hi Kevin, You are right that you shouldn't give a user a 404 message when you can help it. The best method is to use a 301 redirect to gently move the user to the correct page. However, on some systems, that may be technically difficult to implement. Instead you can add a canonical link in the head of the HTML that tells google which page is the "real" page. The code is <code><link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/" /></code> There is no problem if this link also appears on the canonical page itself. Hi Kevin,
You are right that you shouldn’t give a user a 404 message when you can help it. The best method is to use a 301 redirect to gently move the user to the correct page.

However, on some systems, that may be technically difficult to implement. Instead you can add a canonical link in the head of the HTML that tells google which page is the “real” page. The code is
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/" />
There is no problem if this link also appears on the canonical page itself.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.seo-jerusalem.com/content-duplication/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Kevin Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:08:28 +0000 http://www.seo-jerusalem.com/?p=266#comment-28 How do you deal with the fact that you want people to be able to type things incorrectly and still find the right page. What if a person types in something with capital letters instead of lowercase, or misspells it? You would like him to still be able to find the information. How do you deal with the fact that you want people to be able to type things incorrectly and still find the right page. What if a person types in something with capital letters instead of lowercase, or misspells it? You would like him to still be able to find the information.

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