Duplicate content

[Yozzer]

This is just a quickie:

On one of my campaigns in SEOmoz I have 151 duplicate page content issues! Ouch!

On analysis the site in question has duplicated every URL with "en"

e.g

http://www.domainname.com/**en**/Fashion/Mulberry/SpringSummer-2010/

http://www.domainname.com/Fashion/Mulberry/SpringSummer-2010/

Personally my thoughts are that are rel = canonical will sort this issue, but before I ask our dev team to add this, and get various excuses why they can't I wanted to double check i am correct in my thinking?

Thanks in advance for your time

[Getz.pro]

yes, I would conanicalize.

[petrakraft]

I agree, too

[Yozzer]

Thanks Petra:  I must say this new beta system for Q&A is very effecient!

Best Regards

Sean

[andresgmontero]

On hand the canonical can take care of that if there were only a few cases, but if you have the entire site duplicate, one version with normal URLs and another within a directory called /en/, then I would 301 redirect the /en/ version of every page to the right/original one, also use the site: operator to see how big the duplicate content issue is on indexed pages.

[goodnewscowboy]

Hey Sean: I triple agree with Richard and Petra. Canonicalize

[goodnewscowboy]

Richard, you are a Q&A answering animal dude!

[ThomasHgenhaven]

Four votes for canoicalize. This is the text book example of what the tag was made for.

Good luck persuading dev team

[Yozzer]

Thanks Goodnews, I agree also that Richard is the Q&A answering dude!

[Yozzer]

Thanks Thomas, I'll need it!

[Getz.pro]

LOL I don't know why, but I'm addicted to this Q&A : )

I like helping people, and I think that is why I like SEO so much. It allows me to help people achieve something they themselves would not be able to.