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roligan
01-21-2009, 05:26 AM
How detrimental are duplicate to SEO?
One of my clients have several URLs for one page. For example
www.xxx.com/
www.xxx.com/yyy-ttt-eee-eee.html
www.xxx.com/index.php?language=1
They all go to the same home page.
What are the implications?
AussieWebmaster
01-21-2009, 05:48 AM
generally you get one page and the others are blocked - and can bleed off link juice
roligan
01-21-2009, 05:53 AM
In this case none of them are blocked. They all work. I know because I can see in Google Analytics that they receive clicks.
In this case none of them are blocked. They all work. I know because I can see in Google Analytics that they receive clicks.
What you may be seeing is the result of the same analytics code in one page accessible via 3 URLs... Have you tried searching for terms you see in analytics to see if these URLs actually do rank for those terms? That is where I'd start just to be certain the data is accurate. As Aussie said, chances are sooner or later all but one of these URLs will be filtered.
JohnW
01-21-2009, 09:51 PM
>As Aussie said, chances are sooner or later all but one of these URLs will be filtered.
Yeah or maybe all of them ;-)
Having duplicates of any of your pages is a bad idea.