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cmsms - duplicate pages

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:22 pm
by jumpspace
All pages in the site, also appear in the root domain as duplicate pages.
for example:
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/documentat ... als/pages/
and
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/pages/
Display the same content, even on this website.

As You know, in terms of SEO is a disaster, some search engines don't like duplicate pages.
In may case, the search engine already had a couple of those pages that as a result of significantly sat positions of these pages.

how to remove duplicate pages?

Re: cmsms - duplicate pages

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:26 pm
by Rolf
Use the canonical tag in page head.

Re: cmsms - duplicate pages

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:08 am
by jumpspace
Rolf wrote:Use the canonical tag in page head.
Thank You so much ::)
I used this line,
pulled from official sources of ready-made templates:

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{* canonical url *}
{if isset($canonical)}<link rel="canonical" href="{$canonical}" />{elseif isset($content_obj)}<link rel="canonical" href="{$content_obj->GetURL()}" />{/if}

Re: cmsms - duplicate pages

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:11 am
by JohnnyB
Also use the Site Map Made Simple module and it will use the correct url for each page. Be sure search engines can find it and it will help make sure your pages are indexed correctly.

Re: cmsms - duplicate pages

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:00 pm
by Dr.CSS
@jumpspace those URLs are ones you made up, well the second one, not an actual link anywhere in the innerwebs, bots don't 'guess' URLs they just follow what is on the page/site, so no real duplicate content...