Need help with Joomla duplicate content issues

[sdennison]

One of my campaigns is for a Joomla site (http://genesisstudios.com) and when my full crawl was done and I review the report, I have significant duplicate content issues.

They seem to come from the automatic creation of /rss pages. For example:

http://www.genesisstudios.com/loose  is the page but the duplicate content shows up as http://www.genesisstudios.com/loose/rss

It appears that Joomla creates feeds for every page automatically and I'm not sure how to address the problem they create.

I have been chasing down duplicate content issues for some time and thought they were gone, but now I have about 40 more instances of this type.

It also appears that even though there is a canonicalization plugin present and enabled, the crawl report shows 'false' for and rel= canonicalization tags

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks so much...

Scott

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[jgower]

I used Joomla long ago, so not sure how much help I'll be...

But I'm 99% sure that Joomla does not do this inherently and if they did it would actually be a feed and not a duplicate page.  My guess is that you either have a plugin that is putting those pages there or there is something funky going on with a mod_rewrite.

I'd also note that on your sitemap you can see that there are other duplicate page issues (yes, they even show up on your sitemap)...those pages with trailing slashes and without trailing slashes.  There may be a way to fix those with a joomla plugin or you can check out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html on tips on how to overcome the trailing slash problem.