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Solution to Duplicate Pages within Shopify
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Thanks in advance for your time and expertise.
I am having issues with duplicate page content and titles on a client's Shopify subdomain. Examples below.
Two questions:
#1 How can I solve this issue?
- Do I block the duplicate pages from being crawled? With meta NoIndex?
- Establish the main page as the canonical version and stop obsessing?
- Other...
#2 Is it a big concern or am I needlessly obsessing? Feels like a concern that needs to be addressed, but maybe not?
Duplicate Page Content Examples:
#1 URL: http://shop.shopvandevort.com
#1 Duplicate URLs: http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/all; http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/all?page=1
#2 URL: http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/accessories
#2 Duplicate URLs: http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/accessories; http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/types?q=Accessories
Duplicate Page Title Examples:
http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/vendors?q=For%20Love%20And%20Lemons
http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/for-love-lemons
http://shopvandevort.com/blog/tag/for-love-and-lemons/
http://shop.shopvandevort.com/collections/for-love-lemons?page=1
Thanks again for taking a look here, very much appreciated.
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Hi Laura, thank you so much for your response. Apologies for the delay in my response, I wasn't notified and forgot to check back in.
I will give it a shot and work through it with our dev team. Very much appreciated. Saving me a great deal of stress.
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This duplicate content does need to be addressed, but it's not as complicated as you might think.
Use pagination to solve the "page=1" issues, or use a canonical with a "View all" option. See the following for reference:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions
Set up the canonical links for the others, and that's all you'll need. You may want to noindex all of the tag pages for the blog unless you have unique content on those.
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