Canonical tag?

[KarlBantleman]

I have an e-commerce website and the query strings of the URL's are causing duplicate content/titles. I'm thinking of adding a site-wide canonical tag which should fix them all. Any other ideas of making it neater or better?

[KarlBantleman]

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Think I'll implement the canonical tag.

[SEOAndy]

either use rel=canonical, its use is just this purpose and saying this is the origin of content.

or if it's not an important page to you add it to robots.txt and remove it from search -

either way it will fix the issue... another could be to look at if you can fix those variables into friendly urls which you can then pull things from for your title for instance... but thats a bit more complex and usually not worth thinking about.

[Solvari]

You can also change your parameter setting in webmaster tools to tell google not to index these pages. You can find this URL-parameters setting under configuration.

For further information on possible usage of the canonical tag this post from Dr. Pete from earlier this week might be helpful!