Will it consider as a Duplicate URL's?

Marketing
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Dear Sitepoint members,

I need to clarify something about duplicate URL’s…

Que 1:

[noparse]http://www.mywebsite.com[/noparse] and [noparse]https://www.mywebsite.com/[/noparse] Will it considered as a duplicate URL’s?

Que 2:

[noparse]http://www.mywebsite.com/mypage.aspx[/noparse] and [noparse]http://www.mywebsite.com/Mypage.aspx[/noparse] Will it considered as a duplicate URL’s?

If so, how do I fix this errors? Can you please assist me?

Thanks,

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[font=verdana]Any time the URL looks different, Google will consider it as a different page. The domain name is case-insensitive, so there’s no difference between mywebsite.com and MyWebsite.com – but folder and page names can be case-sensitive (even if your server is set up so that they aren’t), so as far as Google is concerned mypage.aspx and MyPage.aspx are different pages. Likewise, a URL on a secure server may point to a different page to the same URL on an unsecure server.

There are three things that you can do to minimise the risk of Google indexing the different variations separately:

  1. Make sure that you use a consistent format for the URL in all your links and all your publicity – that should minimise the number of times the ‘wrong’ format gets out there onto the web.

  2. Set up a ‘visible’ rewrite rule so that URLs are automatically corrected to the preferred form – and make sure that these corrections are shown in the address bar, that way Google will see that the URL has been modified and will index accordingly.

  3. On each page, set a <link rel=“canonical” href=“insert URL here”>, where the href gives the full, preferred URL format for that page.[/font]

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Great suggestion Stevie… I got valuable answer for my question…

And, can you please explain more about your second point?? How to set up a set up a ‘visible’ rewrite rule?

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If you’re not familiar with rewrite rules then the best thing to do is have a look at the Server configuration section of the forums – read the FAQs and if you can’t find an answer that makes sense, work out exactly what patterns you want to rewrite (eg, all file and folder names to lowercase, all https to http) and ask there.

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Here I’ll make it painless for you http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/htaccess/canonicalization-htaccess-mod_rewrite-301-redirect-non-www-to-www-and-index-to-folder.php

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The biggest issue with those are Link Juice if an outside website linked to [noparse]https://www.mywebsite.com/[/noparse] then it obviously it gets a boost with that link but [noparse]http://www.mywebsite.com[/noparse] does not benefit from it so thats why it is always better to have a uniform url such as [noparse]www.mywebsite.com[/noparse]

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