Capitals URLs to Non Capitals...

[J_Sinclair]

Hi,

I am working on a website which has capital urls and non capital urls which will be generating duplicate content, and I know it is better to use all lower case.

The problem is that the page authority is better for the capital versions and I was wondering will it negatively impact the SEO of we 301 redirect the uppercase urls to the lowercase counterparts?

Thanks.

[ChristinaRadisic]

We have had to do this to a couple of websites, but we put canonicals in place which saw no negative affects.

[Chris.Menke]

I think it's better to use non-caps in your urls from now on.  You may choose to 301 the caps to the non caps due to potential confusion by users and, perhaps, errors in future in link building--it won't impact your SEO much if any, if you do.

[ChristinaRadisic]

I agree with Chris, sticking with lower case is easiest, because complications do happen when linking which can then lead to duplicate pages ( one page links to upper case, second page links to lower case).

We have one site that does use upper case to make it easier for the users to read the URL's, although I find typing them isn't easy if you aren't a typist.

[J_Sinclair]

Thanks for the replies.

Yes definitely all for lowercase rather than uppercase.

I was more wondering about any possible negative impacts of redirecting the uppercase page to lowercase page when it is the uppercase page that has the higher page authority. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Also done some researching and some say to 301, others say to use canonicals.

[Chris.Menke]

In your case, they are equal in how they will impact SEO, which is minimally.

[J_Sinclair]

Thanks so much for the quick responses, really appreciate it!