Tabs and duplicate content?

[BobAnderson]

We own this site http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/ and just a little concerned as I right clicked open in new tab on the tab content section and it went to a new page

For example if you right click on the price tab and click open in new tab you will end up with the url
http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/#tabThree

Does this mean that our content is being duplicated onto another page?

If so what should I do?

[TomRayner]

Hi there

You don't have anything to worry about with this.  Having a hashtag query after a URL is widely recognised as the denomination for an internal page anchor.  Simply put, Google won't attempt to index a URL like http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/#tabThree as it knows that it is linking to a point on an existing page, rather than a completely new page or URL.

To put your mind completely at ease, you could set up a canonical tag on the http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/ page that points to itself - instructing Google that any variations of that URL with #'s or ?querystrings etc. should not be indexed or considered duplicate content.  I consider this good practice in any case and so would recommend that you do that anyway.

Hope this helps.

[BlueprintMarketing]

It would appear that you have more of a problem with your navigation then duplicate content. However that's not to say I would not remove http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/#tabThree

I would simply make sure that the link is rewritten as well as pointing to a true price page instead of what sending people to now.

Is the site still under development?

I would either higher a developer to correct it or go to team treehouse to learn HTML and correct it yourself.

The best of luck to you,

Thomas

[BlueprintMarketing]

Good replied Tom Thumbs up man I forgot to even bring up canonical tag

All the best,

Thomas

[BobAnderson]

No the site is fully built can you see any more problems? I was considering what tom has said about setting up a canonical tag for the tabs and this has confirmed it for me - thanks tom