Avoiding Duplicate Content from your own website | Webmaster tools

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by AsadMoeen, Oct 26, 2010.

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    I recently saw Google Webster Tools :

    And then a sub category called HTML suggestions. Nothing was actually duplicate but it flagged some content as duplicate and I was laughing why lol. There was this,


    website.com/?p=927
    website.com/?p=927?ftr=vidpgurl


    Now as we can see post id is same and yet it is duplicate. I don't really know what ftr=vidpgurl is to be honest lol. I have 12 such links have ftr=vidpgurl and are considered as duplicate. I just wanted to know how to avoid this ?

    Of course the way is through webmaster tools. A way I had in mind is,

    There is something in Google Webmaster tools under Site Configuration > Settings > Parameters . Now I can see we can manually ignore some parameters. But I don't know how to add this paramater and what could be the possible syntax of it if this is really a possible way of removing this ?
     
    AsadMoeen, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    AsadMoeen Active Member

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    Waiting for a good reply on this ..
     
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    Can your CMS include a canonical URL (after ignoring all random parameters)? That should serve the purpose.
     
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    AsadMoeen Active Member

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    I am using Wordpress so what about it ?
     
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