User experience regarding dulpicate content and managing this content with google.
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Hi long title i know!
We are moving on to magento and have chosen to allocate a specific colour to each category using corresponding tabbed navigation for user experience.All products within each of the coloured tabs then inherit the repective colour, giving the products a category identiy within the store. This layout has had a positive feedback from our "testers"
As a lot of our products are seasonal and can be represented in different categories there is a significant amount of duplicate content.
ATM i see our options as being:
- Alter the site structure so that the category is not shown in the url, therefore eliminating our duplicate products. The downside of this is that the colour co-ordination of the categories would not work at product level as its the category path that assigns the colour.
- create canonical links for every duplicate, can this be damaging?
- keep the duplicates and do nothing let google decide the most important version of a product.
any guidance would be appreciated!
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There was a problems with Q&A over the weekend and this question seems to have posted several times!
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Eliminate option 3.
Either of your first two options should work. You should be able to re-write your URL's and eliminate the category but still use the category variable to alter your color scheme.
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