An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character :
. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing :
as two separate URLs: one with :
and one with %3A
. Is he right?
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I suspect this is lies/misinterpretation from your "SEO expert" (such roles do not exist IMO). Essentially Otherwise you could argue that any non-alphanumeric character could cause duplicate content as they all have an URL encoded entity for someing (eg IE:
and
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