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Iam working on a live project and I noted that severel URLs in the website pointing to same URL. Here is a sample example.
    https://example.com/sample1/
    https://example.com/sample2/
    https://example.com/sample3/
    https://example.com/sample4/
    https://example.com/sample5/
    https://example.com/sample6/
    https://example.com/sample7/
    https://example.com/sample8/

Please note the above URLs. All are different. But all are pointing to the domain https://example.com/. Does it hurts SEO? What is the best way to fix this solution?

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MITHUN Community Contributor Answered on

Yes this issue is related to duplicate content in seo

I noticed that many URLs on the site like:

https://example.com/sample1/

https://example.com/sample2/

https://example.com/sample3/

are all pointing to the same content or page.

This can hurt SEO because search engines might see it as duplicate content, and that can:

Confuse search engines about which page to rank,

Split the SEO value between all URLs,

Reduce the overall visibility of the main page

 

What I suggest as a fix:

1. Use a Canonical Tag

We can add this tag in the <head> of all these pages:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/sample1/" />

This tells search engines that /sample1/ is the original page to focus on.

 

2. Use 301 Redirects

If pages like /sample2/ and /sample3/ are not needed, we can redirect them to /sample1/ using a 301 permanent redirect.

 

3. Avoid Routing Duplicate URLs

On the backend, make sure we don’t allow different URLs to show the exact same content unless needed.

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athulkrishna k Community Contributor Answered on

Multiple URLs for identical content confuse search engines, spliting SEO value, and reduce ranking potential.

1-Using canonical tags

2-Applying 301 redirecting

 

Add a canonical tag in the of each page

href="https://example.com/" >
 

Use permenent  301  redirect from the duplicate URLs
Redirect 301 /sample1/ https://example.com/

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