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Duplicate content: 2 diff URLs pointing to same post (6 posts)

  1. rafaelperrone
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    I decided to change title and URL for one of my posts and now Google says (via Google Webmaster tools) that I have duplicate content.

    I have All In One SEO plugin and Canonical URL option is checked, so I have a canonical URL for that post.

    What should I do?

    1. Nothing? The canonical option is enough to avoid duplicate content penalty.

    2. Disable old URL crawling in robots.txt?

    3. Something else.

    Please, help me. I have no intention to take advantage over duplicate content and I don't want to be penalized by google either.

    Thanks.

  2. rafaelperrone
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    I just found out that the original post url makes a 302 redirection to the new post url.

    Since both of them are on the same domain, is it a problem? Should I make a 301 redirect on .htaccess?

  3. ZGani
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    First of all there is no such thing as "Duplicate content penalty".

    Google has a "Duplicate content policy" where it states that priority or preferance will be given to one set of content over the other according to its own formula or algorithim as they call it.

    Can you put both urls here for comparison please. If you are using the xml sitemap generator you can instruct it exclude one of the post url in the exclude items>>exclude post section.

  4. rafaelperrone
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    ZGani, thanks a lot! I'm kinda desperate and though nobody would answer me.

    So, as you say, I won't loose pagerank or search position having this?

    URLs are these (actually, there are 3 of the, I changed them to improve SEO - but now I really regret it)

    http://fazendoacontecer.net/2009/07/16/como-baixar-musicas-de-graca-legalmente-41-sites-para-download/

    http://fazendoacontecer.net/2009/07/16/como-baixar-musicas-de-graca-legalmente-41-sites-para-download-free/

    http://fazendoacontecer.net/2009/07/16/como-baixar-musicas-de-graca-legalmente-41-sites-musicas-para-baixar/

    The last one is the active one. I've checked the first 2 and they are 302'd to the last one.

    Although only the first two are index by Google yet. Check this search:
    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site%3Afazendoacontecer.net+inurl%3A41&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=Xmf0jJ9P_V0

    I have AIO SEO and the canonical meta link is the last URL I wrote.

    Should I do something? Is it normal? I mean, I have already changed URLs before (due to typos). SO I believe other people have already done this too. Is this normal?

    Thanks a LOT again. I've tried to mess with .htaccess, robots.txt... Don't know what to do.

  5. rafaelperrone
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    One more question regarding your suggestion of excluding post via AIO SEO plugin. These different URLs for the same post have the same post id or each of them are saved in the DB with different post ids too?

    I'm asking because I'd need post id to exclude in AIO. But I don't want to exclude the 3 of them.

  6. rafaelperrone
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Sorry for the flood, but I'm trying to find out by myself too and I get more doubts.

    I found out that my sitemap http://fazendoacontecer.net/sitemap.xml has only reference to the mentioned article. And it's the one I want (the third one I listed above).

    BUT the change frequency is set to Monthly. Does this means that the next month Google will recheck the link in the sitemap and correct its index?

    Is there a way I can force it recheck now?

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