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    • Dillman
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      • GPainter
        GPainter last edited by

        Hi there,

        First off 301 may not be the best for that situation but a tag - rel=canonical sounds like it would be a great fit. You may find the yoast SEO plugin very helpful, if you did want to redirect though there is a great plug in - http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

        Now you may be thinking why not a 301? well

        author/admin/page/2

        category/uncategorized/page/2

        as you see the page is under two sections one by the person who wrote it and one under the category the author thinks that page should be. As a 301 is not necessary as it would be confusing (imagine you click on the author but you are redirected to a category!) the canonical tag will point towards the stronger post (lets assume category) and tell Google to ignore the other post as its a duplicate of the category post and give all link juice to that. The bonus of this to a 301 is the post will still maintain its position and the user (or crawler) wont get lost.

        The Yoast plugin has the canonical feature I believe (more info here )

        Hope that helps if you need more info or i lost you let me know.

        More info on the tag is here - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

        and here- http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

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        • vivekrathore
          vivekrathore last edited by

          Use a cannonical tag. Its the best option if you want to keep both the pages or if you want to keep just one page 301 redirect the page which you don't want to keep to the page you want to keep

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