Same post is indexed 3 times

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  mohandas1142015 · Member · Jan 10, 2017 at 3:04 pm

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  I have started a blog on WordPress, and I wrote my first blog post – How to Start a Blog 😀 , But this post is indexed 3 times on google.

  I want -> https://www.squarenoid.com/how-to-start-a-blog/ only to be indexed.

  I don’t want the other two be indexed. i.e
  -> http://www.squarenoid.com/how-to-start-a-blog/
  -> http://www.squarenoid.com/how-to-start-a-blog

  Here is a image for reference. -> https://tinypng.com/site/output/oea5mld3dp7cmdi6.png/pic.PNG

  Any help would be appericiated.
  Thanks in advance,

  Mohan Das

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  dragoso · Member · Jan 10, 2017 at 3:18 pm

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  Hi Mohan,

  Sorry if I’m wrong but this is a self hosted WordPress installation right ? I’m asking because WordPress.com has great SEO right out of the box — you don’t have to do anything extra. And what happens with your website it usually can’t happen on WordPress.com.

  However, in order to solve this, you must work a bit with your links. Basically you have to make sure your visitors will not be able to access the same article using different links – here is a screenshot : http://zcreenshot.com/gaznw.png – as you can see your article can be accessed in 3 different ways – with https, without https and with or without “/”.

  However, you can manage the way your website is indexed by google using the google webmaster tools : https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en – and as well chose the way you want your website to be accessed and using .htaccess redirect all links to that format.

  Hope it helps :) have a great day!