: How to avoid duplicate META and TITLE tag warnings in Google Webmaster Tools for the same URL in lowercase and CamelCase? looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of
looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of supposedly duplicate <meta name=description> / <title> tag content with all of them showing a duplicate count of 2. A lot of them show as the conflicting URLs something like the following:
/deutschland/Bayern/Camping-Allweglehen-19062
/deutschland/bayern/camping-allweglehen-19062
The only difference is the case of the first letters of some of the words.
I have to admit I was surprised to see that Google treats these as separate URLs. But now that I know it does - what I can I do to clarify that this is the same website? I don't want to use 301 redirects as it would mean overhead for the user and a tiny bit for the server. I feel like I'll have to make sure all URLs that we put on our pages are lowercase so there won't be any reason for any crawler to crawl the same website twice.
Is there any other trick / thing I can do to get rid of these duplicate warnings?
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Some systems are case sensitive with URLs and so I guess Google is honouring that.
The best thing to do is to try and avoid URLs being references in different ways in regard to case.
This can never be 100% so the next best thing maybe to cause 301 redirects when the case is incorrect. This seems a bit of overkill for a minor issue.
A final solution is to use the canonical meta tag to indicate which version of the URL is correct. Oh, that's what @Fabian just said!
Specify the canonical URL.
<link rel="canonical" href="/deutschland/Bayern/Camping-Allweglehen-19062">
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