| Case Sensitive Urls and Internal Navigation
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zehrila
msg:4322425 | 10:28 am on Jun 6, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Okay, by default my urls structure is in mixed case, e.g domain.com/Green-Blue-Widgets.html and Google for some reasons is indexing two versions of my urls domain.com/Green-Blue-Widgets.html and domain.com/green-blue-widgets.html . Now i want to 301 redirect all urls to lowercase, but my internal navigation is all mixed case e.g the category page domain.com/Green has all the products listed in the page with mixed case.
I know its bad programming, but i will really appreciate if any one can look into the matter for me and usggest a solution.
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Tommybs
msg:4324453 | 7:15 am on Jun 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
You could just try using the canonical tag for duplicate content issues as a quick solution
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g1smd
msg:4324457 | 7:28 am on Jun 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Solution 1:
Redirect the incorrectly cased URL requests to all lower case and fix the internal navigation. Do this one section of a time for the site.
Solution 2:
Add code to the start of the PHP (or whatever) scripts that run the site to compare the URL request with what is in the database for that page. Issue a redirect if it is not an exact match. This retains your mixed case site but fixes non-valid requests.
Solution 3:
As per solution 2 but add canonical tag to the page header instead of redirecting.
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