To Worry or Not? Duplicate Content Created from Redirect After Login

[BrittanyHighland]

One of my Moz reports is flagging duplicate content. For example, https://redchairmarket.com/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2FAccount%2FSaveSearch%3FsearchId%3D0&searchId=0 and https://redchairmarket.com/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2FAccount%2FSaveSearch%3FsearchId%3D1&searchId=1 are created when a user logs in and the website sends them back to the page they were looking at before.

What is the best way to deal with this duplicate issue? How serious is it?

Thank you!

[mosquitohawk]

Hello!

I wouldn't consider it to be very serious, however if you wanted to nip it in the bud, the best way would be to block /Account/* in your robots.txt and also add a meta noindex to all of your /Account pages.

The robots.txt directive asks compliant bots to not crawl the page(s) while the noindex requests search engines to not index those pages.

[LesleyPaone]

I think something missed about duplicate content is what Google actually does with it.

Say you have those two urls, Google is not going to penalize your whole site for the duplicate content. What they do is try to figure out which one should be shown, and sandbag the other one. More than likely the login one would be sandbagged, because it is not linked.

You could always add a canonical url to really solve the issue.