GLOSSARY

Duplicate Content

IN ONE SENTENCE

Duplicate content is one piece of content living at several URLs with no consolidation to a preferred address.

Duplicate content is one piece of content living at several URLs with no consolidation to a preferred address.

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In detail

On multilingual, multi-source sites the usual cause is a change to how slugs are generated: addresses from both rules still resolve, each canonicalising to itself. The fix is an old-to-new redirect map and a sitemap that only declares the new set.

Updated 2026-08-06