Regarding Multiple Url For Same Content Issue
« on: April 16, 2014, 07:50:58 PM »
hi,
  iam getting multiple url in sitemap for same content in my sitemap, im getting nearly 16930 links in my site, in that nearly most of the url are repeated, i mention u the example below

original url :

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dulpicate url (which is actually not present  in my website) :

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atually 342 in the url is mentioning the city in original, for each city duplicate url has been generated  in sitemap.

please find me a way to omit this, since this links are not visible in my site, it is present only in sitemap, if i submit this i will get an issue
Re: Regarding Multiple Url For Same Content Issue
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2014, 05:20:35 AM »
Hello,

you need to make sure that non-existing URLs return 404 file not found error (currently they are opening) - in this case they will not be added in sitemap and you will see where they are linked from in broken links report.
Re: Regarding Multiple Url For Same Content Issue
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2014, 01:09:37 PM »
i need to redirect the non existent url to 404 error page right?
Re: Regarding Multiple Url For Same Content Issue
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2014, 04:20:42 PM »
Hello,

the best way to handle this is to display  404 error without additional redirects.