Duplicate Home Page

[Bridge_Education_Group]

Hi everyone!

So, I;m using the crawl diagnostics in Moz and it's telling that I've got duplicate content for these two pages:

http://www.bridgelanguages.com/ 
http://www.bridgelanguages.com/index.php?p=3233&source=3

Would a redirect from the 2nd page to the 1st one be a solution? I'm not even sure where that 2nd link is on the site?

Any suggestions or has anyone experienced the same?

Thanks!

Kelly

[ForForce]

Yes, you want a redirect from the 2nd to the 1st.  It looks like your using wordpress, and wordpress will usually do this for you (no need for you to manually create a redirect).

You might want to try turning permalinks off than on again to see if that fixes it.

[Bridge_Education_Group]

Thanks Eric! We actually aren't using Wordpress on this particular site, which is strange. I think the developers who created it did some type of weird content management system so I'll check with them!

Thanks again!

[Saijo.George]

Hi Kelly

I will start by checking Google Web Master tools to see if Google has identified these duplicate pages. I don't think Google has indexed these

Either way there are a few option you could try  : adding rel="canonical" tags so that all the duplicate content would pass value to the main page OR you could 301 the duplicate pages to the main one.

[LesleyPaone]

I agree with the rel="canonical" that is the definitive way to solve the issue. The urls are not actually two different urls, they are using a query string. If you put a redirect into place, you might lose the functionality of the query string. Also, GA uses query strings for tracking, so you would also lose any GA tracking you are using on the main site page.

Most people use rel="canonical" to solve this issue. I know when I blog and I link to a site I normally put a query string in the url I link to just to give them an idea of where the traffic is coming from and to make it easier to track.