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Is duplicate content really a problem for search engines? I thought you just have to set the canonical URL and it’s ok.
by echoangle 2y ago
Is duplicate content really a problem for search engines? I thought you just have to set the canonical URL and it’s ok.
- em-bee 2y agonot only this, if webservers can treat both versions as the same, and if in fact the specification treats them as the same, then so should search engines. if there is a problem, then the search engines are at fault. it seems ridiculous that i have to configure a webserver to add a redirect in order to avoid this. actually i think this is something that could also be fixed in the browser. i just checked, firefox treats them as separate domains. i don't think it should. in practice of course this is not a problem because nobody really puts a trailing dot on hostnames.
- Kwpolska 2y agoI would also expect search engines to (a) ~never end up on a URL with a dot, unless someone explicitly linked to one, (b) merge the two sites on their end if they appeared.