Duplicate Content for e-commerce help
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Hi.
I know I have duplicate content issues and Moz has shown me the issues on ecommerce websites.
However a large number of these issues are for variations of the same product. For example a blue, armani t-shirt can be found on armani page, t-shirt page, armani t-shirt page and it also shows links for the duplicates due to sizing variations.
Is it possible or even worthwhile working on these issues?
Thanks
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Thanks.
We have issues with our filter at present (it is Ajax I think) as it doesn't recognise when a variation is out of stock. Which pretty much makes the point of a filter useless.
We need it tweaking which our web team are trying to do.
Thanks
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Doing the canonical URL's will help with this.
If your cart system allows this, you could also have the sizing done through javascript as a variable, so that it does not change the URL for the different filters. This way you can still pass the values through for your store, but not have 5 different pages for every product.
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They should but its always worth double checking.
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I can put a Canonical URL on the product using Yoast. So I presume that all other variants of that product will go to that URL?
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its a tag that sits on your webpage i'm sure you can get a plugin for Wordpress to do it, Yoast might do it. worst case web dev guy can do it pretty easy.
I also think this one would do the trick but i recommend doing a little research (i dont endorse this particular one) - http://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
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Yeah that was the lines I was going down.
I just wasnt sure if it would be a big issue. The sizes/colours are all under a master product anyway so all point to the same URL.
Will my web guy do this or can I do within Wordpress/Webmaster tools?
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Hello,
What you want is rel=canonical tag:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
what this will do it tell Google (or other search engines) that the product is a duplicate so what would do is tell Google that the Armani t-shirt is the original and put the tag on the colours pointing back to the Armani t-shirt page. then you won't have duplicates because any value will be passed to the original. The only minor problem is the other won't be indexed but if its just a colour issue this is not normally a problem.
I hope that helps and good luck!
(just edited the links to be links!)
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