Google Page Case Sensitivity Issue

[doughayman]

I just noticed via a Google site:www.domain.com command, that I have duplicate entries for several pages, both of which are subdirectory home pages to websites of mine:

For example, the 2 entries are:

1) www.domain.com/HomePage.htm and

2) www.domain.com/homePage.htm

Note that the spelling is identical, but note the case sensitivity difference between the 2.

The latter entry is an old entry (from well over 1 year ago), and the former entry is the one that is current.

I would love to rid myself of # 2 above, but I am fearful that use of the Google Removal tool, will have an effect of removing both (I'm willing to bet that entries are not case-sensitive), and potentially removing my site from Google's indices for 6 months, as disclaimed.

Does anyone have a way to remedy this situation?

[jomaxx]

URLs are normally case-sensitive, so the removal tool PROBABLY is as well. But I don't see any need to remove that page or even give it a second thought. Just redirect it to the correct location.

[Terabytes]

I've always written file names / directories in lower case just to cover any *nix incompatibities...implimenting that in the future should solve any of your future OS platform / SE issues...

just my $0.02

[edited by: Terabytes at 7:19 pm (utc) on Aug. 2, 2006]

[jomaxx]

BTW I pretty much always use lowercase as well. For my own sanity, because it's too much to expect people to type MixCased URLs correctly, and because Windows systems don't support it and thus you're always at risk of overwriting file A with file B.

[g1smd]

Any site that uses IIS is exposed to the "Mixed Case Duplicate Content Problem".

Apache just completely avoids this issue. IIS can fix the problem by using rewrites, but it is very messy.