Should we have two copies of the same content or do a redirect?

Should we have two copies of the same content or do a redirect? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Should we have two copies of the same content or do a redirect? error on your web browser. Problem :


We are a web app for icons and we've got 2 versions of our app:





Both apps are useful; the old one works well on mobile, while the new is not responsive yet.



What should we do?




  1. Keep both copies

  2. Do redirects from old to new

  3. Much harder way — make new app responsive and replace the old app with a new one


Solution :

If, as you say, both apps are useful, you should keep them both.



However from what I see, the new one should be an evolution of the first, no? If so, you would be upgrading the first to the second, keeping only one.



I would upgrade the new one, make it responsive, look great and then keep just one, upgrading the first. For this you would keep the same URL so no redirected needed.



If the content is 1 to 1 the same, then you can use the origin special header to let search engines know which page to view as the correct page.


So in your case BOTH pages would have this in their <head> block:


<link rel="canonical" href="http://icons8.com/web-app/73/Home"/>

That way is very SEO friendly. It means, though, that people will be sent to that new page (web-app) even if they have the old app. Yet again, if the content is the same, it wouldn't matter.


Now, if all of that content is not to be indexed anyway. That doesn't matter at all.


# robots.txt
Disallow: /icons
Disallow: /web-app

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the google, redirects, duplicate-content error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!

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