A problem with duplicate content

[iain]

I'm kind of new at this.

My crawl anaylsis says that I have a problem with duplicate content. I set the site up so that web sections appear in a folder with an index page as a landing page for that section. The URL would look like:

www.myweb.com/section/index.php

The crawl analysis says that both that URL and its root:

www.myweb.com/section/

have been indexed. So I appear to have a situation where the page has been indexed twice and is a duplicate of itself.

What can I do to remedy this? And, what steps should i take to get the pages re-indexed so that this type of duplication is avoided?

I hope this makes sense! Any help gratefully received.

Iain

[SanketPatel]

Hi Iain,

In this case your have to 301 redirect to your preferred version URL. If I say from seo point of view please check which version has backlink. Then redirect less backlink version URL to more backlink version URL.

[iain]

Hi Sanket,

Many thanks for the reply. I have another question, sorry.

I was under the impression that 301 redirects weren't very good from an SEO point of view. Am I likely to be penalised for using this approach?

Thanks,

Iain

[simon_realbuzz]

301 redirects are fine. They pass the majority (but not all) of the link authority. It is 302 temporary redirects that you should avoid as these are intended as temporary and therefore link authority is retained by the original URL.

[SanketPatel]

Hi Iain,

You are not going to penalised by doing 301 redirect. 301 redirect are permanent redirect which are consider as seo friendly.