Uppercase in URLs = Dupe Content

[Travis-W]

Hi Mozzers,

My developers recently changed a bunch of the pages I am working on into all lower case (something I know ideally should have been done in the first place).

The URLs have sat for about a week as lower case without 301 redirecting the old upper-case URLs to these pages.

In Google Webmaster Tools, I'm seeing Google recognize them as duplicate meta tags, title tags, etc.  See image: http://screencast.com/t/KloiZMKOYfa

We're 301 redirecting the old URLs to the new ones ASAP, but is there anything else I should do?

Any chance Google is going to noindex these pages because it seems them as dupes until I fix them?  Sometimes I can see both pages in the SERPs if I use personalized results, and it scares me: http://screencast.com/t/4BL6iOhz4py3

Thanks!

[jesse-landry]

No you're fine. You're correct that it will recognize them as duplicate content, but you won't have any longstanding effects if you put that redirect into place.

Just go ahead with the 301 and forget all about it. Next time, drop those redirects day one. No harm done.

[donford]

Zora you could also use htaccess to rewrite the urls to lower case.

See this article on stackoverflow.com

Hope that helps,

Don