Duplicate content "/"

[frdrik123]

Hi all,

Ran my website through the SEOMOZ campaigns and the crawl diagnostics give me a duplicate error for these urls

• http://www.mysite.com/cat1/article
• http://www.mysite.com/cat1/article/

so the url with the "/" is a duplicate of the one without the "/"

Can someone point me out to a solution to solve this ?

regards,

Frederik

[irvingw]

Yes that is duplicate content created by a technical issue

you need to redirect the slash to the no slash. or vica versa depending on which page is your real page and has more links and PR accrued. and then stick with that one way across the board

also canonical the pages as a second safety measure - this will tell Google if they visit the slash version that it is the same as the non slash version and to count the non slash version as the real page. or vise versa depending on which way you go with it.

[frdrik123]

Ok thnx !