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Prevent Duplicate Content
Phillip Haydon edited this page Oct 3, 2013
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Mehdi Khalili raised an issue about duplicate content with Snow.
For example:
- http://www.philliphaydon.com/2013/09/instant-nancy-web-development-book-review/index.html
- http://www.philliphaydon.com/2013/09/instant-nancy-web-development-book-review/
These two URLs are technically two different pages to a Search engine. This occurs because in order to handle static content with Extensionless URLs, we create a directory to put an index file in.
To prevent Google or other search engines from thinking of them as two different URLs, you can add a canonical header to your HTML markup to tell the search engine what the URL is.
<head>
@Html.CanonicalUrl()
</head>This would output a URL like:
<head>
<link rel="canonical"
href="http://www.philliphaydon.com/2013/09/instant-nancy-web-development-book-review/" />
</html>This will mean the index.html and the default document url will be treated as the same resource.