Hi, my SEO friend has just pointed out to me that SS is creating duplicate content by the way it serves pages. make
Eg. www.mystite.com/contact.php and www.mysite.com/contact/
Both of these pages are 'spiderable' by Google and can make their way in to the Google index. This is particularly bad when you upgrade to SS from an old site. If the previous site used .php files, these would remain in the index and the new SS versions added also.
For example:
Google would treat the old www.mysite.com/services.php page as a different page to www.mysite.com/services/
Even though they are the same page in the new SS site.
The answer is to 301 the .php version to the non PHP version, but I cannot find any leads on doing this. Any ideas?
I don't know if this is a known issue. I've scoured the web for an answer but cannot find any discussion on the topic.
If you don't know about Google's penalisation of duplicate content (it's really important to know) do a Google for Google Panda update or Google farmer update.
Cheers.