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Thanks.  That's the information I was looking for. In our particular vertical, there are several "organizations" who try to claim the directory listings/citations.  Some of them have gone the route of Yext and taken our listings/citations from us, thus prompting the question as the client properties in question are using the Moz Local service and losing citations due to Yext via a 3rd party.

Hey Linda, They most definitely do count as duplicate. I build several Joomla websites a month for clients and whilst you can use a rel="canonical" link such as suggested by Todd, I prefer to remove the issue by replacing the standard joomla .htaccess file content with the following content:- Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On prevents people from accessing anything with phpMyAdmin RewriteRule phpMyAdmin - [F] Remove index.php or index.htm/html from URL requests RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(([^/]+/)*)index.(php|html?)\ HTTP/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/administrator RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)*index.(html?|php)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] force canonical www if request is for non-www or has port number etc RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www.example.com)?$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] redirect 301 /home.html http://www.domain.com/ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|%3D) [OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]([^)]) [OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]s)+cript.(>|%3E) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|[|%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|[|%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) RewriteRule .* index.php [F] RewriteBase / RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/[^.]|.(php|html?|feed|pdf|raw))$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . index.php [L] Before replacing your .htaccess code with the above make sure you take a back-up copy of the original code just in case. Replace www.domain.com with your domain. Hope this helps. Ade.