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[joesnow]

Hi

We're having duplicate content issues with /default etc adfresses on all our URL's.

had a message form our techy guy explaining why we cnalt jsut do a 301 from all /index /defaults etc to the primary domain, here:

'Reason for google indexing Default as well as default is that:

(1) The file names are case-sensitive as far as google is concerned so its treating any links to "Default" as a separate page
(2) The ASP.NET 1.1 model is posting back to "Default.aspx" on the homepage and this cannot be changed in .NET 1.1'

Anyone had this problem before? We could do dissallow on the spider file to tell it not to index /default, but worried about losing scoring here.

cheers in advance for any thoughts...

[incrediblehelp]

I guess a better question is why is your server doing this? Meaning serving case sensitive files? I know Linux does this, but simply delete all file sin upper case and only serve lower case page names. Are you missing a 404 page handler? Add one and then Google will eventually remove the upper case page names from its index. Having multiple ways for the spiders to get to the same home page can really hurt ya long term.

[joesnow]

Thanks for this, good question! I need to find out really! We're getting some listing issues - not sure if its purely this though, problem being its the same for all sites!

I'll check with the server set up guys...