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Video: Http Vs Https - Duplicate content issues


The solution using htaccess


# Redirecting the robots.txt file for htaccess to stop https crawling to avoid duplicate content.
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443 [NC]
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt [L]

There are other ways of solving it too like

< ?php
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] == 443)
{
echo "< meta name=" robots " content=" noindex,nofollow " > “;
}
?>

You can even do canonicalization but it is not always possible as you want both the urls to be accessible.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Online Marketing, Tech Talks, Video

4 Comments to Video: Http Vs Https - Duplicate content issues

  • Miles Baker says:

    Great Videos! You mention to run your site through a webmaster tool to see how it’s reading the robots.txt files, do you have a tool you would recommend to use?

    Thanks!

  • AjiNIMC says:

    Hi Miles, great to have your comment.

    Google provides webmaster tools, it is really great, you can check and verify in detail. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ (create an account if you haven’t)

    I am working on a new project based on supplement results for wordpress. I am using http://www.meabhi.com/blog/find-supplemental-ratio/ for the project. One shouldn’t miss this experiment.

    Please let me know if I can be of any further help.

    Regards,
    Aji aka AjiNIMC

  • Gabi says:

    Thanks a lot for the tips! I have a similar problem with my https being displayed which I don’t want.

    I am not sure I understand where would you add that php code you mentioned:

    thanks
    Gabi.

  • This is particular to my solution, send me the website and i will help with the particular example.

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