Site migration from non canonicalized site

[McTaggart]

Hi Mozzers - I'm working on a site migration from a non-canonicalized site - I am wondering about the best way to deal with that - should I ask them to canonicalize prior to migration? Many thanks.

[crackingmedia]

Hi Luke

You don't need to as essentially the 301 redirects you put in place will address that. So, for example, where you have had duplicate content pages you can redirect both old pages to one new page on the new site.

I hope that helps,
Peter

[McTaggart]

Thanks Peter - developer was only redirecting from www. version of pages - when other versions exists, so will ensure he redirects from duplicates too, Luke