Help With Joomla Duplicate Content

[NoahC]

Need another set of eyes on my site from someone with Joomla experience. I'm running Joomla 2.5 (latest version) and SEOmoz is giving my duplicate content errors on a lot of my pages. I checked my sitemap, I checked my menus, and I checked my links, and I can't figure out how SEOmoz is finding the alternate paths to my content.

Home page is: http://www.vipfishingcharters.com/

There's only one menu at the top.

Take the first link "Dania Beach" under fishing charters for example. This generates the SEF url: http://www.vipfishingcharters.com/fishing-charters/broward-county/dania-beach-fishing-charters-and-fishing-boats.html

Somehow SEOmoz (and presumably all other robots) are finding duplicate content  at: http://www.vipfishingcharters.com/broward-county/dania-beach-fishing-charters-and-fishing-boats.html

SEOmoz says the referrer is the homepage/root.

The first URL is constructed using the menu aliases. The second one is constructed using the Joomla category and article alias.  Where is it getting this and how can I stop it?

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[ClickConsult]

Hi Noah,

I've just checked the source for the example page that you've mentioned and within the source, the canonical URL is set to http://www.vipfishingcharters.com/broward-county/dania-beach-fishing-charters-and-fishing-boats.html which is the duplicate URL that you mentioned.

I'd recommend that you download a tool called Xenu:

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

This tool will crawl your entire site and you'll be able to find out what other pages within the site are linking to each specific page.

Good luck!

[NoahC]

Thanks. I've been trying to find a good tool for adding the canonical link to Joomla ... right now I'm using MetaGenerator but it doesn't let me specify exactly what URL should be the canonical and I guess it's just pulling the article and giving it the category alias. Any better idea on how to handle this in Joomla?