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URL Capitalization and SEO

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URL Capitalization and SEO


domainname.com/page1domainname.com/Page1
Your site is hosted on a Windows-based server
Header response when requested either of the two200200
Google’s reactionBoth URLs will be indexed and ranked. Obviously, this will cause some duplicate content issues but Google will most obviously be able to figure that out (by choosing one of them). What’s more important is that you are wasting plenty of link juice spreading it between the two versions.
Your site is hosted on a Linux / Unix-based server
Header response when requested either of the two200404
Google’s reactionGoogle will try to index both but will drop the 404-one. Again, you are wasting your link juice in this situation. What’s also important, you confuse your visitors by sending them to the non-existent page.

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