Urgent, Duplicate page title and content at eCommerce site- how to solve
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Hi, there, does anyone can help to solve 'duplicate page title, duplicate page content' problem? it is a eCommerce site, each categories has hundreds of products, so there are more than 10 pages, but the report crawl the errors, i totally have no idea, can anyone help? Thanks a lot! Anna
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Anna, were you able to figure this out? If not, we're happy to help if you can give us some more details, examples, or a URL.
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Anna,
Do you have any way in the system to add custom titles to these pages? Or do you have someone that could write a script to speed up the process?
Regards,
Andy
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What software are you using? Sometimes there are plugins for a software where you can robot.txt individual pages. Some are free, others aren't. Whatever you do, back up your DB 1st.
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