Search console, duplicate content and Moz

[paulneuteboom]

Hi,

Working on a site that has duplicate content in the following manner:

http://domain.com/content
http://www.domain.com/content

Question: would telling search console to treat one of them as the primary site also stop Moz from seeing this as duplicate content?

Thanks in advance,

Best, Paul.

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[DirkC]

Nope - Moz is completely unaware of settings you define in Google Search Console.

Why don't you pick a preferred version & 301 redirect the other one to the preferred one?

Dirk

[MattAntonino]

You should automatically redirect the www or non-www (check Google to see which one they prefer.)

If you're using a host that allows .htaccess files, you can use one of these (CHOOSE one and put the whole code in .htaccess)

---

#redirect non www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..+$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

OR

#redirect www to non www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]