How do I get rid of duplicate content

[bronxpad]

I have a site that is new but I managed to get it to page one. Now when I scan it on SEO Moz I see that I have duplicate content.

Ex: www.mysite.com, www.mysite.com/index and www.mysite.com/

How do I fix this without jeopardizing my SERPS ranking?

Any tips?

[JustinTaylor88]

The best solution to this problem is to 301 or rel=canonical to the preferred domain

ie: if a user types in domain.com you redirect to www.domain.com

Make sure you do this for all domains/subdomains you have pointing to your site and add the trailing slash to the domain i.e. http://www.domain.com/ as this gets added anyway.

This will stop the page reporting as duplicates, also Google will only see one version of your pages so it definitely won't jeopardise SERPS, in fact it should pack some rankings bonus' for you.

The following article covers the rel=canonical solution
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

This one covers 301s
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work

Hope that helps

Justin