"Daily Special" = Duplicate Content?

[RScime25]

I believe this has been addresses and answered previously, but despite searching the Q&A archives, I was unable to find the question and answer. So, please be gentle and patient:

We have an eCommerce site with several hundred products, most of which use the structure:

www.mysite.com/subcategory/itemA.html.

We wish to feature itemA as a "daily special" item, and our Magento developer has recommended:

www.mysite.com/internet-daily-special/**itemA.html **

Because itemA.html is the same page—albeit following a different path—will Google see this as duplicate content?

Thanks.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Yes, especially if the pages are identical. I would leave the new url (/internet-daily-special/itemA.html) and set a canonical to the page that is permanent (/subcategory/itemA.html). That way users and magento will be able to navigate to the daily specials section easily and crawlers would know that the permanent home for itemA is inside the subcategory.

Cheers,
Oleg