Embedded Timeline creating duplicate Website URLs

[WallaceTheGr8t]

We have an embedded twitter feed in the sidebar of our blog. Every time we create a new blog post, a duplicated url with twitter in the url is created, thus resulting in duplicate content (which is bad for SEO).

Example:
Blog post URL: http://domain.com/blog-title
Duplicate URL automatically created: http://domain.com/blog-title/www.twitter.com/handlename

How do I fix this?

Thank you!

[andypiper]

Hard to know - are you using our embedded timelines from publish.twitter.com? Are you able to provide a link to the site where you’re seeing this behaviour? Also, from your post I’m not quite understanding where this duplicate URL is appearing - inside the embedded timeline?

[WallaceTheGr8t]

The embedded twitter timeline is on every blog post. Here is an example of a page: http://shiplps.com/how-machinery-moving-is-a-lot-like-live-theater/

Every page that has the embedded twitter timeline on it is creating a duplicate URL.
For the above URL, this url is created: http://shiplps.com/how-machinery-moving-is-a-lot-like-live-theater/www.twitter.com/shiplps

The problem is that Google and other search engines are seeing those two urls as duplicate content. I am trying to figure out how to stop the duplicated urls from being created for every page that has the embedded twitter feed.

[niall]

You have extra content inside your WordPress text widget with a relative href.

<p style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Follow <a style="font-size: 13px;" href="www.twitter.com/shiplps">@Shiplps</a> on Twitter</p>

Edit the widget through your WordPress administrative interface and remove the extra markup. If you are using a custom theme widget consider using the embedded profile timeline widget in Twitter’s WordPress plugin.

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[system]

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