: Two URLs pointing to almost the same content Possible Duplicate: What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site? What I would like to do is the

@Speyer207

let's say your urls are:


domain.com/category/something/a
domain.com/category/something/b
domain.com/category/something/c


then you have to define a canonical tag that points to:

domain.com/category/something

so that even if google looks at the other urls you mentioned, it definitely know that they belong to the main-page defined in the canonical tag.

Here is the official google blog post and the explanation for the canonical url.

BTW, putting a rel nofollow would be unnecessary dangerous since they are somehow counted too and may have a negative impact on your SEO.

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@Megan663

There are so many conflicting pieces of research on whether duplicate content is bad that I'm not sure that you should worry about it; especially as your second page isn't exactly the same. Make sure you put some different text around the control on the second page (if you can), perhaps a h4 tag saying the track's name, to differentiate it - or if you are just loading a track the meta data of the track may be enough to be different.

Duplicate is bad:

www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/444-SEO-The-Duplicate-Content-Penalty http://www.searchenginejournal.com/duplicate-content-penalty-how-to-lose-google-ranking-fast/1886/


Duplicate is irrelevant:

www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1326-SEO-There-Is-No-Duplicate-Content-Penalty http://searchengineland.com/the-duplicate-content-penalty-myth-10741 isedb.com/20100330-3397.php

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@Kristi941

This example is almost identical to what Google mentions in their canonical blog post. You want to use Canonical URLs for this. If you don't the page they include in their index may not be the one you wish to have shown.


Is it okay if the canonical is not an exact duplicate of the content?

We allow slight differences, e.g., in the sort order of a table of products. We also recognize that we may crawl the canonical and the duplicate pages at different points in time, so we may occasionally see different versions of your content. All of that is okay with us.


In your case it's just a different track playing.

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