Question
I am facing duplicate content issue. I want know about the best solution to removing duplicates
We have 19 education levels which are attached with 200 categories please see following URLs. 19*200 = 3800 URLs e.g:
1. /abc/education-8-class. 1. /cds/education-8-class
2. /abc/education-9-class. 2. /cds/education-9-class
3. /abc/education-10-class. 3. /cds/education-10-class
4. /abc/education-11-class. 4. /cds/education-11-class
5. /abc/education-12-class. 5 /cds/education-12-class
6. …………….. ………………………
7. ……………. ……………
But for above URLs, same content is rendering. I want to remove all class level which is no more useful e.g (-8-class) from URLs
And I want to keep correct URL 1. /abc/education, 2. /cds/education
Now my actual URLs will be 200.
I am not able to select which method will be good from SEO point of view.
1.404
2.301 redirects
3. Canonical Tag
Or any others please suggest me
Answer
There are few ways to do it:
1. 404 :- This will be too bad
2. 301: You can do this but as you have huge number of url, doing this will also not be a good approach
3.Canonical: This will be best way in your case, along with you should also do no-index and no-follow for all these pages
