How to exclude duplicate content from being indexed by Google?

[susanburling]

Hello experts,
If we found a duplicate content on a website what should we do to not get penalized? Can we stop them from being indexed in Google?

 

[rudolphdaniel]

You can by adding canonical links so that crawler don't crawl

 

[demurry]

You can directly block these URL's from your robots.txt

 

[Traffic]

Not a lot you can do as not your site. Even the original content can be penalised considered duplicate content the most popular site will win regardless who authored it. Basically you could copy any site and do it if you had no ethics.

 

[escale4176]

You can block these URLs from getting indexed by Google through robots.txt file. Or you can insert the below meta code into the meta tags on your webpage which you want not to be indexed by Google:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

 

[niamul21]

Hello experts,
If we found a duplicate content on a website what should we do to not get penalized? Can we stop them from being indexed in Google?

You can use the canonical tag so that the search engine can crawl the pages that you like to index.

 

[emmie91]

There are two options to prevent it. First, you can use same canonical url on both pages. Second, use the noindex tag, so that crawlers don't index page page.