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URL Formatting - Magento

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Pure-SEO Subscriber last edited by

Hi,

We are working with a client on Mangento who URLs are formatting Google friendly

eg; productname.html - as seen in site search in Google) but when you click the link to the site it is adding on #.VEWKQxbc754 (or similar)

The site is also having some page indexing problems as well

Thoughts? specific settings/Add on in magento?
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Christy-Correll Staff last edited by

Hi MalikaS, what did you find out? We'd love a brief update, thanks!

Christy
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Pure-SEO Subscriber @Ampweb last edited by

Yes it is - We will check this out as well

Thanks
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Ampweb last edited by

Are you using any "Add This" or "Share This" type plugins on those pages or the website?

A magento website that I built had the same URLs as you are describing and it was the ADD THIS script that was adding the sequence to the end.

Cheers,
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OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

Look into plugins that set up canonicals for Magento and that should fix any dupe content issue.

My guess is that it is generating session variables for all visitors from some tracking addon.
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