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?
seo url redirection
Yes this issue is related to duplicate content in seo
I noticed that many URLs on the site like:
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.
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/