Timeline for Does a plain vanilla site benefit from a "canonical" directive?
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| Apr 2, 2013 at 13:07 | vote | accept | hawbsl | ||
| Mar 26, 2013 at 20:00 | comment | added | John Mueller | FWIW Duplicate content by itself isn't a problem (assuming the site is still normally crawlable) - search engines will just pick one URL and use that. If you have preferred URL that should be used, then using rel=canonical is a great way to let them know. | |
| Mar 24, 2013 at 21:32 | comment | added | MrWhite | If the same page is accessible by those 3 URLs and you are not redirecting then yes, you potentially have a duplicate content issue. Google will decide which URL to index; it won't index all 3. By specifying the canonical URL (or preferably redirecting) you are deciding which URL Google should index. | |
| Mar 24, 2013 at 21:28 | comment | added | hawbsl | but have we even got a duplicate content issue? we're not serving duplicate content | |
| Mar 24, 2013 at 21:26 | history | answered | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |