2 Simple Tricks to Boost Your SEO By Eliminating Duplicated Content Penalties

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datetime="Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500">Tuesday December 2nd, 2014

Serving duplicate content can downgrade your SEO performance. You can use these 2 simple tricks to fix your URLs for good and give your SEO a nice boost.

Trick #1: Make sure all of your pages have a Canonical URL Tag

The Canonical link tag tells search engines the single URL to use for all versions of a given web page. There are many instances where this is relevant

Any instance where your site may have duplicated content, you can use a Canonical URL tag to tell search engines where the authoritative source of that content should be

Solution

Specify the permanent link to each page in each page's header area

<link rel="canonical" href="http://http://www.zjjv.com///blog/5-benefits-of-responsive-design" />

if you are using SavviCMS this is as simple as adding this snippet to your header include file:

echo $PAGE->linkCanonical;

Trick #2: Only serve your website from one domain name

Can you access your website from multiple URLs? The most common example is accessing your site from http://www.zjjv.com/ and mysite.com

You might think of www and your domain as a single domain name, but to search engines these could be treated as multiple URLs with duplicated content.

Fortunately this is a simple fix. There are many ways to approach it, but here are 2 examples:

Solution #1: PHP Code

Put this snippet in your global scope

if (php_sapi_name() !="cli")




{




	$mydomain = "http://www.zjjv.com/";




	if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']!=$mydomain)




	{




		$protocol = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== 'off' || $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443) ? "https://" : "http://http://www.zjjv.com//




RewriteRule (.*) http://http://www.zjjv.com///$1 [R=301,L]

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