Brian Hancock

Bona Fide Internet Marketing Expert

Facebook Vanity URLs Present a Duplicate Content Issue?

Jun 13, 2009 |
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As I'm sure you are aware by now, Facebook users frantically logged on at 12:01am ET this morning to snatch up a vanity URL for their name, brand, or a desirable keyword they wanted to target.  The old URLs still had the profile name present, i.e. www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Hancock/743482939 but the new vanity URLs leave out all of the extraneous information. Anyway, I stumbled upon a possible issue today. Click the following links:
See how they both resolve and neither redirects to the other.  Am I the only one sensing a duplicate content issue on the horizon?
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Brian Hancock

An Internet Marketing Expert who uses over 12 years of Internet Marketing experience to make other people money.