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I have the following scenario with items within different categories:

  • catagory1 has the URL example.com/category1
  • category2 has the URL example.com/category2
  • [...]
  • all example.com/all to show posts of all categories

Every item get's the following permalink (category name/item slug):

example.com/category1/item-slug

To not lose context when I come from the all category the permalinks are example.com/all/item-slug

Is it possible to tell google with a meta tag or something like that that the real URL for this page is example.com/category1/item-slug, so that it indexes the better URL and not the one with all. I'm also worried about duplicate content being introduced by this.

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When you have multiple pages of the same content, you're supposed to use the canonical tag.

On the page site.url/all/item-slug, you should have

<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/category1/item-slug" />

Put the above code in your <head> tag and it will tell Google that you want the other URL to be indexed instead of the current page.

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  • I updated the URL in the href to be fully qualified (with the http://). It wouldn't have worked the way you had it without that. – Stephen Ostermiller♦ Apr 2 '18 at 13:47

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