example.com/Abc.htm & example.com/abc.htm are these being treated as 2 different URL.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by myindiahub, Jun 22, 2011.

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    URL casing structure in our sitemap is example.com/Abc-My-Page.htm
    We have used rel=canonical tag on example.com/Abc-My-Page.htm (rel=canonical example.com/Abc-My-Page.htm)
    But when we manually type the URL in browser example.com/abc-my-page.htm it also opens
    (rel=canonical example.com/abc-my-page.htm, this we did not created but can be seen on this page)
    Though there is no link from our website that points to example.com/abc-my-page.htm
    Now the question

    1) Is this an issue of duplicate content/canonical?
     
    myindiahub, Jun 22, 2011 IP
  2. revium

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    It appears that the search engines can figure it out, but it is a good idea to not leave it up to them to figure out. I would correct the issue and not allow different case URLs to both resolve.
    http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/019577.html

    I could not find a definitive answer about if it would be considered duplicate content or not. I think the search engines would not consider it duplicate, but I would fix it so you do not run that chance.
     
    revium, Jun 22, 2011 IP