Duplicate Content - Products
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When running a report it says we have lots of duplicate content. We are a e-commerce site that has about 45,000 sku's on the site. Products can be in multiple departments on the site. So the same products can show up on different pages of the site. Because of this the reports show multiple products with duplicate content. Is this an issue with google and site ranking? Is there a way to get around this issue?
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Hi Patrick - Did James answer your question?
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jamesscaggs has got it covered but I wanted to post this:
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Yes it can be an issue. You should be implementing rel=canonical tags. If you use the rel=canonical tags you can tell Google which pages are "duplicates" and which is the original version. For ecommerce I usually recommend making the most product page in the most relevant category as the canonical and the other versions in other categories/subcategories are not canonical.
Hope this helps!
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