[wp-hackers] Duplicate Content Issue - URLs work with dots and colons in it

[Shea Bunge]

If you look at the source of that page, you will see that there is a <link rel="canonical"> pointing to the original post URL. This tells Google that the original URL is preferred, no matter what URL the page is accessed from.


> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:51:38 +0200
> From: banago at gmail.com
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Duplicate Content Issue - URLs work with dots and	colons in it
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> URLs with a dot, a colon, or many, still works and Google treats it as
> duplicate content. Here is an example:
> 
> Original:http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/
> With a dot: http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh./
> With a column: http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh:/
> With many dots:
> http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh...../<http://wplancer.com/a-beginners-guide-to-the-command-line........../>
> 
> All of these URLs work and if mistakenly on the site, they will be
> considered duplicate content by Google.
> 
> Is this a bug? If not, why is this happening?
> 
> PS: I wrote about this in the support forums, but the post seems filled
> with typos, thus it might be a reason I had no replies there:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/dublicate-content-url-works-with-tots-and-columns-in-it
> Kindly,
> 
> Baki Goxhaj
> about.me/banago
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