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    • Japking
      Japking last edited by

      Hi,

      I have two pages that are identical on my site:

      http://www.absolutepower.nl/creatine-monohydraat

      and

      http://www.absolutepower.nl/CREATINE/creatine-monohydraat

      Should I use the canonical URL tag in this case?

      Thanks,

      Jasper

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      • Mark_Ginsberg
        Mark_Ginsberg last edited by

        Ideally you should remove one and 301 redirect it to the other. If you need to keep both pages on your site, then definitely use the canonical tag.

        As an aside, I'd also configure your server to fix your URLs and remove the capital letters - configure your htaccess file on your apache server to automatically redirect capital letters to lowercase, thereby avoiding further canonical issues. See here for more info - http://www.stateofsearch.com/three-htaccess-tips-for-seo/

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