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    • TowerMarketing
      TowerMarketing last edited by

      I have two URLs one with a tracking coded and one without.

      http://www.towermarketing.net/lets-talk-ux-baby and

      http://www.towermarketing.net/lets-talk-ux-baby/**#.U6ghgLEz64I **

      My question is will this be considered as two separate URLs, will Google consider this as two pages with duplicate content.  Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

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      • OlegKorneitchouk
        OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

        It shouldn't (its a hashtag anchor, not a new variable) but add a canonical url to the page anyways to avoid all duplicate content issues

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        • LesleyPaone
          LesleyPaone @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

          Agree totally with what you said. One thing I would like to add, and this is just my assumption, the #. tracking system is unique to addthis. I would be willing to be some how Google keeps track of these unique tracking patterns and disregards them.

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          • David-Kley
            David-Kley last edited by

            Most people use these pages for tracking only, and set them to no-index so Google doesnt pick them up. I'm guessing you have tracking set up to analyze the traffic and attachement rate for that article? A hashtag is genearally used to point to an anchor point on that page. You currently have two URLs with the same content.

            As Oleg said, I would be sure to add a canonical link for that page.

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            • TowerMarketing
              TowerMarketing @David-Kley last edited by

              Very much appreciated

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              • TowerMarketing
                TowerMarketing @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                Good advice.  Thanks

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