Duplicate homepage content

[Socialdude]

Hi,

I recently did a site crawl using seomoz crawl test

My homepage seems to have 3 cases of duplicate content.. These are the urls

www.example.ie/

www.example..ie/%5B%7E19%7E%5D

www.example..ie/index.htm

Does anyone have any advise on this?

What impact does this have on my seo?

[AnthonyMangia]

Are all of these versions of your homepage?  They should be 301 redirected back to your main URL.

The middle example appears to be some kind of parameter string.  It's hard to say what you should do without looking at the actual website, but this could be a case where the canonical URL tag could come in handy.

A good place to start is SEOmoz's primer on duplicate content.  It walks you through all of the potential types of problems and their solutions.

[Socialdude]

Yes all are verions of my homepage, when I type each url in my browser bar they all go to the homepage.

cheers for the input dude... I'll look into this..

[SL_SEM]

Using the in the header of the page will tell most bots who care that the various versions of the page URL that bring up this content are really the page referenced in the canonical link tag.

This is very handy when you have index pages that show up for /, index, and /folderName. Since the same page is actually loaded for these the bot will see the canonical tag and should remember they are all the same (or just go to the page you tell it to).

This is usually the easiest solution (if you can automate it for most pages) as you may not catch all of your weird URL situations with one 301 redirect.

Hope that helps.