Duplicate URL's - How to Fix this

Marketing
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Hi

Google bot is cutting down my long URL and Showing the same page as another page with duplicate content. How do i fix this. What should be the maximum length of the URL. Is it black hat if i make the URL little longer by adding few keywords in it.

Plz help.

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There is no maximum length of the URL.

Adding more keywords to the URL isn’t black hat, but it won’t necessarily be any help – Google isn’t keen on keyword stuffing (which is exactly what you’re proposing to do), and the longer and more complicated your URL is, the harder it’s going to be for people to type in.

You can solve the duplicate content issue by adding the tag

<link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com/page">

to the <head> of each page. In the href bit, put the URL that you want Google to index the page under.

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you can either use the canonical tag or 301 permanent redirection for this.