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First go and visit:

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=555 78

and

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ er=55578

Now, what do you see?

Those are the same pages with exactly the same content, right? But the URl of those pages are different. The first one have /analytics/ and the second one have /googleanalytics/ Small difference, but for search engines (yes, also for Google itself) those are two different URL’s and therefore those should be different pages with different, unique content.

Doesn’t it cause the duplicate content issue? Yes, it certainly does dear user. By using the duplicate content tools like this one or this one you can determine if two separate URL’s may cause the duplicate content issue in search engines. And guess what happens if you enter the two URL’s from above? They are 100% the same!

On top of things the http://google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=5 5578 URL (see, i wrote it without the “www” at the beginning) returns a 404 message (and the message itself is NOT user-friendly)!

I can understand that Google have a huge database, has to deal with different language versions for different products and services, but among thousands of people employed in Google, there could should be a group of people taking care of their URl structure, help centers etc. to eliminate such problems.

Message to Google: use 301 redirect!