Duplicate content and url rewriting with Drupal

Drupal has an option to rewrite URL's under another name. So, I could have an article like http://www.mysite.com/myarticle. It would also have a node address like http://www.mysite.com/node/100. Do you think this would suffer a duplicate content penalty if some sites link to the node address and some sites link to the rewritten address?

 

Use Drupal Global Redirect module to redirected all default URLs named 'node' to your URLs alias or URLs that had been rewritten. That's it.
i.e. whenever your visitors or bots visiting http://www.mysite.com/node/100 it will then redirected to http://www.mysite.com/myarticle

 

I guess Pathauto module should create URL alias for you and replace existing pages.

 

what jinnnguyen said is correct, search for drupal's Global Redirect module and that should work, personally i have noticed in Google's webmaster tools that it takes a while for Google to register the 301 redirect so i just avoid re-writing my drupal urls from now on.

 

Pathauto does not replace existing pages, only create alias.
Global Redirect is the correct cure.

 

lol. you could be right. am just starting with Drupal. however can you tell me what this options exactly does?

I was thinking it replaced node/XX into new url. The node/xx is deleted and no longer available.

Can you help?

 

Godmode,
Drupal by default came with a built-in 'path module' which allowed you to change the URLs to whatever you wished but you must do it manually one-by-one.
Pathauto, as the name suggested, will automatically creating an alias for URLs on-the-fly based from your topic title.

However, when created URLs alias, the default path 'node/XX' still existed in the system. We'll ran into a duplicated situation: example.com/node/XX -> the content can be accessed same as -> example.com/articles

That's why Global redirect module helped to 301 redirected example.com/node/XX -> example.com/articles

 

Thanks for the explanation. I already downloaded and enabled that module. seem to be working fine. Cheers for that!

 

Yeah, thanks for the help, installing that module now.

 

I have the same problem with my site www.magicofword.com.

I already installed the Global Redirect Module and activated it for all pages.

Unfortunately, I still seem to hava issues concerning duplicate content...what is the cure? Can anybody help?

Thank you!