Ok to ignore Overly-Dynamic URL from Moz crawl?

[GrumpyCarl]

I am developing an ecommerce site, just ran it through the Moz crawl to see what's what and it has come back with a lot of issues. Most of these issues are around duplicate page titles (it is not happy with paginated titles, ie Shoes, Shoes Page 2, Shoes Page 3 etc) and it has also found a lot of Overly-Dynamic URL's. Again, these seem to be from  some of the search functions and filters used Accessories&pto_sort=priceAsc&pto_page=6 other than spending a lot of time and effort trying to rewrite these urls there is little I can do about them.

Should I just ignore this? I wouldn't imagine it having a massive impact on the rankings of the pages.

Thanks,

Carl

[Everett]

Hello Carl,

Let us know how your fixes work out for you. Also, be sure to read these articles, which will give you a good idea of your options so you can choose the best one/s for your situation:

Building Faceted Navigation That Doesn't Suck Faceted Navigation Whiteboard Friday
Duplicate Content: Block, Redirect or Canonical
Guide to eCommerce Facets, Filters and Categories
Rel Canonical How To and Why Not
Moz.com Guide to Duplicate Content

If you feel you could use more help with this just let us know. Thanks!

[GrumpyCarl]

Thanks, Mike

Will check out the link you posted. I have added a lot of the filtering options - price ascending, descending and all the related page 2's and onwards to a no crawl file for Google (and Roger Bot) so hopefully that helps. Have also replaced a lot of the html filtering options with menus which cannot be crawled so will wait for the next Moz crawl and see if that's helped matters.

Regards,

Carl

[Kara.Wallace]

Hi Carl,

For the pagination issue, depending on the page content, you can either leave it "as is" or you can use one of the 3 methods referenced on SearchEngineLand.com for managing pagination.

And if it is a lot of different filtering and search results pages, you could choose to noindex,nofollow them (unless you want these types of pages to show up in Google's SERP) which would resolve your crawl issues with Moz.

You are correct in stating that these probably won't have a massive impact on rankings. For these types of issues, it more or less comes down to how tight you want to run your ship.

Hope this helps.

Mike