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			<title>Bruce Smeaton</title>
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			<dc:creator>Bruce Smeaton</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi 

Interestingly, after reading your]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi 

Interestingly, after reading your article I realized that I actually have a major duplicate content issue going on with one of my client sites that wasn't addressed in your article (or any others that I can find on duplicate content) - for no other reason than it is a 'really rare case'.

Let me explain...

Initially, most of the page URLs within the site were built in such a manner that every part of the URL beyond the domain (i.e. after the "/") contained Upper and Lower Case letters:

Example: myclientsite.com/Diesel-Engines

Later on, the webmaster decided to change the URL structure so that everything appeared in lower case:

Example: myclientsite.com/diesel-engines

Naturally enough, this led to TWO different URLs pointing to the same content page (and when you multiply out the number of content pages involved, it amounted to 27% of the entire site).

I wasn't phased by it as I assumed 301 redirects would completely solve the problem i.e. myclientsite.com/Diesel-Engines &#38;gt;&#38;gt;&#38;gt; myclientsite.com/diesel-engines

But alas! The particular version of the CMS (Contegro) that this site was built on, isn't capable of allowing the creation of 301 redirects for the purpose of redirecting uppercase URLs to lower case ones. In other words, it doesn't differentiate between upper and lower case URLs. So, any time someone tries to 301 redirect the upper case URLs to the lower case ones, a 301 loop is created. Not exactly the epitome of a good user experience!

While later versions of this CMS do force upper case URLs to appear as lower case ones, this doesn't help my client's problem of duplicate content (as the damage has already been done). For the record, it is disheartening going into Google Analytics and seeing traffic data applicable to both versions of the URLs. Even more disheartening when I find links pointing to them!

Bottom line... if 301 redirects cannot be used to resolve this problem (for the reason I've just stated), and Webmaster Tools URL Removal service can't be used because the offending URLs still point to "live" pages (as opposed to deleted or blocked ones), what can I do? Is this client's site destined for eternal damnation from Google's condemnation of duplicate content? NOTE: Ever since the roll-out of Penguin 2.0, the site has slowly been dropping in the rankings. After exhaustive site audits and reviews, the ONLY real issue I can find that is remotely related to what the common understanding of Penguin 2.0 is about, is the issue of duplicate content (i.e. duplicate page titles, descriptions, body copy etc.) applicable to the issues I've outlined above.

Love to hear your thoughts ... and even better still, "LOVE TO KNOW HOW TO FIX IT!"

Cheers

Bruce]]></content:encoded>
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