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    • ArchieChilds
      ArchieChilds last edited by

      Html Improvements in Webmaster shows many as Duplicate Titles. As attached they are not duplicates we made a way to make text hyperlinks if the name matches other objects in our site. How can we deal in such case for Google not to this it as 2 different URl's rather they are one. As the ones with ?alinks are just hyperlink URL's

      Say we have a name as "James" and he has a biography in our site. Say "Gerald" has a Bio as well and we talk about "James" in "Geralds" bio the word "James" gets a hyperlink automatically so when anyone clickes "James" it goes to his bio.

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      • danwebman
        danwebman last edited by

        Canonical links at the top of the page to say this is the true URI for this page.

        https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

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        • AlexVerjus
          AlexVerjus last edited by

          Thanks.. Can you please explain where and what needs to be added....

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          • danwebman
            danwebman last edited by

            Indicate the preferred URL with the rel="canonical" link element

            Suppose you want https://blog.example.com/dresses/green-dresses-are-awesome/ to be the preferred URL, even though a variety of URLs can access this content. You can indicate this to search engines as follows:

            • Mark up the canonical page and any other variants with a rel="canonical" link element.
              Add a element with the attribute rel="canonical" to the section of these pages:

              This indicates the preferred URL to use to access the green dress post, so that the search results will be more likely to show users that URL structure. (Note: We attempt to respect this, but cannot guarantee this in all cases.)

            Avoid errors: use absolute paths rather than relative paths with the rel="canonical" link element.

            Use this structure:  https://www.example.com/dresses/green/greendresss.html Not this structure: /dresses/green/greendress.html).Taken from the URL I previously posted. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

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            • ThompsonPaul
              ThompsonPaul last edited by

              What software system is your website built with, Archie? If it's a Content Management System like WordPress, Drupal or many others, it's entirely likely that there is an SEO plugin that will make implementing canonical tags for all your URLs very easy.

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