Case sensitive url's

[simmo235]

Hi,

Really appreciate advice on this one in advance!

We had a problem with case sensitive urls (eg: /web-jobs or /Web-jobs)

We added a code to convert all urls into lowercase letters and added 301 redirection.

We are now experiencing problems with duplicate page content.

Each time a url contains caps letter it is converted and redirected to small letter url.

I can convert all urls into lowercase letters (all places) but the problem now is google have already indexed urls so they may cause duplicate content issue.

The solution:

Remove 301 redirection added to convert url into small letter.

Add canonical url which converts url into complete small letter, so google index content only from canonical url.

But I am little confused about what will happen to already indexed pages with caps in url.

Appreciate any advice you can give?

Simon

[UnderRugSwept]

How long ago did you do all this? Everything you did if correct; however, it can take Google a couple months to straighten everything out.

You can always remove the bad URLs from Google's index via Webmaster Tools.

[simmo235]

Thanks, it seems to be resolving itself