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    • benfirth
      benfirth last edited by

      Hello,

      www.mountain-solutions.net and www.mountain-solutions.net/index.html are listed under an error for having a duplicate page. They are in fact the same page. I'm wondering how I can remedy this.

      Thanks

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      • oneticsoft
        oneticsoft last edited by

        use 301 httacces redirect, or cannonical tag

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        • Tompt
          Tompt last edited by

          It's also worth pointing out that www.mountain-solutions.net and mountain-solutions.net also resolve separately so may also be seen as duplicates (this is often referred to as a canonical error).

          The process is exactly the same as Cocarcea Ion mentioned, just use a 301 redirection in your .htaccess file if you have access to it.

          This site may well help: http://www.websitetodos.com/list/websitetodos/webserver/canonicalnameredirect/canonicalredirect-apache

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          • alhallinan
            alhallinan last edited by

            Yes, this is a pretty common problem.  You'll want to add a tag just before the area of your index.html file that looks like this:

            rel="canonical" href="http://mountain-solutions.net" />

            Or, if you want to focus on the www verson and not the non www version:

            rel="canonical" href="http://www.mountain-solutions.net" />

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            • division1
              division1 last edited by

              We are using Canonical URL's to avoid the issue

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              • oneticsoft
                oneticsoft last edited by

                Tompt has the poit it is recomended to use 301 redirection to avoid problems with canonical tag just make a search in discutions and you'll see some results abbout cannonical tags but if you are carefull it will work fine

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                • KeriMorgret
                  KeriMorgret last edited by

                  Hi Ben,

                  Do you need any more advice on implementing this, or are you good?

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