Duplicated Page Content

[mattvectorbpo]

I have encountered this weird problem about duplicate page content. My site got 3 duplicate content similar on the link structure below. If I'm going to use rel canonical does it help to resolve the duplication problem? Thanks

http://www.sample.com

http://www.sample.com/

http://www.sample.com/index.php

[Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr.]

Matt-

Redirects or rel canonical can solve the issue. pick one url and stick withj it. Ideaaly you would choose the one that has the highest SEO/link juice value today. redirect the others to that one.

Hope this helps. If it does, please give me the thumbs up!! Thanks

[JustinTaylor88]

We have also seen this problem and it can be fixed using a canonical link, as outlined in this post by seomoz

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

hope this helps

[mattvectorbpo]

So the basis on which URL that I'm going to use will be the authority of the page right? The higher page authority the better.

[mattvectorbpo]

Just a follow-up question, my site is built from the scratch so I have to insert the rel canonical manually, the normal canonical URL that I have noticed is http://ww.sample.com/ does it really needed that every canonical URL will have a slash (/) symbol at the end? Thanks

[JustinTaylor88]

it is always better to internally link to the version with the backslash at the end. As this is where it gets redirected to anyway.