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Does Matt Cutts have a URL canonicalisation problem?

By richardbaxterseo |

This morning I’ve been conduction some research on class attributes that control search engine indexing, such as Yahoo’s no-content attribute.

Along the way I though I’d check Matt’s blog to see if Google have recently commented on the use of robots-nocontent so I performed this query to see if he had much content on the subject.

The results were pretty cool, but not in the way I had expected! Matt Cutts himself has duplicate search results with a non canonical form URL:

matt cutts google search results for robots-nocontent

When you test the urls, for some reason Matt’s category and blog post urls don’t add / remove a trailing forward slash “/” via a 301 redirect though the main url (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog) does.