New Magento store with lots of duplicate contect
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Hi,
I am fairly new to SEOmoz and would really appreciate some pointers.
I have just received the results of my first crawl and I have over 1800 pages of duplicate content.
this is an example
Cream poplin slim fit mens business shirt from Jermyn Street Shirt Co.
http://jsshirts.com.au/aylesbury-cream-poplin-slim-fit-shirt.html
Heading other URL's indicates 10
My questions are what does this figure 10 represent? what do I need to do to remove this duplicate content.
Thanks
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Magento 1.4 and above has native support for canonical tags but it has to be be enabled. Goto System > Configuration >Catalog > Search Engine Optimization and enable Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories and Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products
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Yeah, canonicals are the key.
We use this extension on our Magento shop which lets us control the Canonical URLs properly as well as generating some good google friendly sitemaps
http://www.mageworx.com/seo-suite-pro-magento-extension.html
Hope this helps,
James
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Hi Jason,
Unfortunately the campaign link doesn't work but typically the duplicate content issues in Magento will arise around category (when refining search criteria) & product pages (when selecting different options - collar size, shirt material, color etc).
For example, all these URLs contain the same Title & Meta Description but essentially display the same textual content:
- http://jsshirts.com.au/cufflinks.html?cufflink_material=92
- http://jsshirts.com.au/cufflinks.html?cufflink_material=94&dir=desc&order=position
- http://jsshirts.com.au/cufflinks.html?cufflink_material=92&dir=desc&order=position
- http://jsshirts.com.au/cufflinks.html?cufflink_material=94&cufflink_range=88&dir=desc&order=position
- http://jsshirts.com.au/cufflinks.html?cufflink_material=94&dir=desc&mode=list&order=position
- etc etc
A canonical tag will help attribute a single URL as the content originator
Other options could be to control the refining via JQuery or nofollow those links. It all depends on more thorough investigation of course
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