How do i fix my duplicte page issues on Prestashop platform?
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I have tried many things such as rel-canonical, duplicate url redirect modules, but still im looking at over 70 duplicate page titles. Most of this is because the same title is used across all the pages and im not sure if this is possible to change. (ex: http://apostolicclothing.com/15-modest-womens-dresses, http://apostolicclothing.com/15-modest-womens-dresses?p=2)
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Hi Nathaniel,
Sorry to be late to the party, but I just noticed this because I was doing some research on Prestashop and SEO. (Considering helping a client on that platform.)
I came across a person who might be able to help you - Lesley Paone.
Lesley is "an expert in PrestaShop development and is also a PrestaShop certified developer. He is also one of the global moderators of PrestaShop's e-ecommerce forum, which is one of the largest e-commerce forums on the internet. He is also an SEO relating to e-commerce sites and is very active on the SEO forums for Moz as well." You can find him on Twitter at @lesleypaone, on his site at dh42.com, and by private messaging him here on Moz.
Good luck!
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So....is there no other way to fix this? so far i was told to change the robot file and to change it back but no other fix?
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oops i already added that to the robot file, will remove it. Its definitely a pagination issue. I have multiple pages but of course being a database backed site, i cant change the titles of each page (at least i don't know how to in SQL). Thanks for the catch, i've been trying to fix this issue for almost 6 months with non canonical tags, etc but I'm still getting all the red flags.
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**(what Andy stated above, sorry Andy, that's a disallow, not a noindex). **
Whoops - good catch
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Are these issues caused by pagination? Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 things? A canonical is not exactly right. A noindex would be best, (noindex,follow) specifically, just make sure that tag isn't put on page 1. You want page 1 in the index.
I would no suggest disallowing the crawling of the pages (what Andy stated above, sorry Andy, that's a disallow, not a noindex).
I am not sure how to change this for just the paginated pages though. I'd look for a noindex module in the Prestashop Modules area.
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I would have suggested a rel=canonical, but as you can't get this working, have you thought about just no-indexing those pages? Adding the following line to your robots.txt should solve it:
Disalllow: ?p=
Then add this to the robots tester in Webmaster tools before committing to it.
-Andy
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