Duplicate content issue

[Alexogilvie]

Moz crawl diagnostic tool is giving me a heap of duplicate content for each event on my website...

http://www.ticketarena.co.uk/events/Mint-Festival-7/

http://www.ticketarena.co.uk/events/Mint-Festival-7/index.html

Should i use a 301 redirect on the second link? i was unaware that this was classed as duplicate content. I thought it was just the way the CMS system was set up? Can anyone shed any light on this please.

Thanks

[OlegKorneitchouk]

301 redirect would probably force a loop/redirect error. You should use .htaccess/IIS to auto-magically redirect/rewrite all /index.html pages to the root folder. In addition, I would set up canonical's on the page as well with the definitive page url.

[Alexogilvie]

Thanks for that Oleg, i will speak to our developer and get that implemented, you mentioned that would set up canonical's on the page as well with the definitive page url, could you elaborate on this?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Check this out - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Basically, if the same page loads on several URLs, the canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the "real" location of the page.