Duplicate page content due to Sort By dropdown
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Hi there,
I have over 150 Duplicate Page Title errors showing up in SEOMoz but on closer inspection these are related to the 'Sort By:' functionality on our ecommerce site that allows customers to sort our products by Price, Alphabetically etc.
To give an example:
http://www.parklanechampagne.co.uk/park-lane-champagne/special-occasions/easter
Is showing as being duplicated by this page:
Does anyone know how I can resolve this? Any help greatly appreciated.
Kind regards, Jon
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I have the same problem In my moz analytics, but with canonical tag set. I think the moz analytics should detect when a canonical tag is set and ignore the 'sortby, datecut, order' and other inputs, as duplicate contents.
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Thanks Alan for the speedy response! Since posting I've also found this Google link: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 which elaborates a little on your reply. Thanks again, Jon
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you need to use a canonical tag, to show that they are all the same page.
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