: I wouldn't necessarily serve up a 404. If users are actually linking to your content this way, then changing your application to serve up a 404 will result in a loss of backlinks. i.e. All

@Gloria169

I wouldn't necessarily serve up a 404.

If users are actually linking to your content this way, then changing your application to serve up a 404 will result in a loss of backlinks. i.e. All links to example.com/category/we-developer/fgggfgg will be lost. Instead, I would make use of canonical URLs:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/category/we-developer/" />


This will tell Google that the original content is on www.example.com/category/we-developer/ and that said content can be accessed via multiple URLs.

This way, you fix the duplicate content issue without losing out on previously-posted links.

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