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I have a store with about 10k+ in products and am trying to work through the mountain of duplicates and other problems. Does anyone have a recommendations for Magento SEO plugins or guides which can help simplify this process? Greatly appreciated...
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This used to be a good answer for this problem, this plugin as of Magento CE 1.7 is no longer compatible and is not being updated by Yoast anymore. There are a lot of reports of this completely crashing site post version 1.6 so be forewarned. I have no experience with Magento EE so I cannot speak to that product.
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Hey Anthony - you may have already seen it, but we're very happy with Joost (Yoast)'s Magento SEO plugin for easily no-indexing a bunch of the duplicate content (wishlists, email to a friend pages, attribute/compare pages etc): http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Yoast/extension/920/yoast-metarobots
And this article is fantastic: http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/
Hope this helps!
Ross
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