Duplicate Content

[jplill]

SEOmoz is reporting duplicate content for 2000 of my pages. For example, these are reported as duplicate content:

http://curatorseye.com/Name=“Holster-Atlas”---Used-by-British-Officers-in-the-Revolution&Item=4158
http://curatorseye.com/Name=“Holster-Atlas”---Used-by-British-Officers-in-the-Revolution&Item=4158

The actual link on the site is http://www.curatorseye.com/Name=“Holster-Atlas”---Used-by-British-Officers-in-the-Revolution&Item=4158

Any insight on how to fix this? I'm not sure where the second version of the URL is coming from.

Thanks,
Janet

[GeorgeAndrews]

The second URL is coming from how some characters are being resolved by the Browser. I'm not sure what you are using in the database for the "Name", but some funky characters are causing your URLs to be interpreted multiple times with different characters.

You can find the characters by using this tool: http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

Compare the characters to what you have in your database and think about whether those characters are necessary (I presume they are not). Strip those extraneous characters out if they are not needed and leave the Name as just "Holster-Atlas---Used-by-British..." instead.

Hope this helps!