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But you can do it, yes?

Ok, i probably wont but in what istance would you not recommend this?

I understand pa and pr etc will be back to nothing but its the keyword url i might want to use from scratch

Also last one, if i wanted to revive the 301s say in a year i would be allowed to and the pages would index again?

Thanks highland.

Well they seem to be generating traffic.

In principal is what i intend on doing ok, will it hard the seo or be seen as ok do you know?

Many thanks,

Hi there, If there is a website that has accidently generated say 1,000 pages of duplicate content, would the seo be hurt if all those pages were re-directed to the origional source of the content?

There are no plans to re-write the 1,000 duplicate pages, they are already cached and indexed by Google.

I thought about canonical tags but as they have some traffic and a little seo value i thought 301 re-direct would be more appropiate to the relevant pages?

I am also right in thinking you would be able to remove the 301 in the .htaccess file once the index has updated?

Also once removed the 301 - i could use those urls later from scratch if i wanted?

Any info much appreciated.

Can this work as a temporary thing?

So if i put a canonical tag in then take it out, once taken out and the page is crawled Google will then value it as unique content?

I just don't want to do anything which makes Google think its permanent.

Thanks for the advice so far everyone.

Some of the pages are getting traffic etc and all seem to be indexed - up to 1000 it seems.

Its 3/4 paragraphs of text so a little more than a product description.

It's a difficult one to call, as i need to save the urls but not get penalised for duplicate content.

Thanks for the advice.

On further looking there's more of 100 pages which have duplicate content.

The urls are similar for example.

/destination

and then

/destination/keyword

I have been told to keep the urls and put unique content on as i go on progressing the site. I just don't know what the best way to do it is, whether it is 302, canonical, etc.

Well i might need the re-direct to be there for up to 12 months, There's quite alot of content to do.

Well yeah i have a few pages which have been duplicated content and i dont want to get penalised for duplicate content. However I want to eventually write unique content for them and use the urls. As they are cached and indexed already I am wondering what the best solution is. I dont want a perm re-direct as i want to use the urls again.

I have pages with duplicate content, i want to put them on hold while i write unique content as i do not want to get marked down for it. I also want to keep the urls and use them again.
There are about 300 pages affected by duplicate content currently.

Am i best doing 302 redirects as it is temporary? to the origional source of the content, or canonical tags no index?

The pages are currently indexed and cahced by google, i want to use the url in the future for unique content to get it valued by Google.

Any advice much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Could you explain more please, i've not tried that before.

Kind Regards,

Thanks for that.

So mypage.php i will add a canonical tag which says mypage.php is the original page for the content.

This will then mean Google will only value mypage.php as the unique content - not any pages with a different query string in for example pages such as mypage.php?id=10&sport=football.

Hi everyone I would appreciate some advice on the following.

I have a page which has some nice content on but it also has a search functionality. When a search is run a querystrong is run. So i will get something like mypage.php?id=20 etc.

With many different url potentials, will each query string be seen as a different page? If so i don't want duplicate content.

So am i best putting canonical tags in the head tags on mypage.php ? to avoid Google seeing potential duplicate content.

Many thanks for all your advice.