Joomla! Site Returning 12000+ Duplicate Content Errors! W Image
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I have tried to ask this question previously (maybe not correctly). I have a client that I am doing the on and offsite optimization and the MOZ report is kicking back major errors. I have examples below. They all seem to relate directly to rokecwid and ECWID. Is there ANY solution to fix this? Is this hurting the rankings
Since I didn't build the site, I am having to tell the website company what to do when I need changes made to code, etc... I am also not very proficient with Joomla! and my web engineer is one of those closet coders (the best kind to have) and doesn't communicate in a way that a "layman" could understand. He pointed out several issues with the HTML but I don't think that is related to this below.
Can anyone tell me what to tell the web company that built this site to get rid of these errors?
A very small sample of the urls w errors:
http://www.metroboltmi.com/shop-spareparts?
Itemid=218&option=com_rokecwid&view=ecwid&ecwid_category_id=3560097
1 14 1http://www.metroboltmi.com/shop-spareparts?
Itemid=218&option=com_rokecwid&view=ecwid&ecwid_category_id=3560098
1 1 0http://www.metroboltmi.com/shop-spareparts?
Itemid=218&option=com_rokecwid&view=ecwid&ecwid_category_id=3560099
1 14 1http://www.metroboltmi.com/shop-spareparts?
Itemid=218&option=com_rokecwid&view=ecwid&ecwid_category_id=3560100
1 14 1 -
But the best solution is the SH404sef? We will try this tomorrow and I will report back on how it works. Do you have any other advice you can give?
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yes, but they also have a commercial license version
In joomla - due to high customization and coding support - one prefers the version with enabled support
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(On the link you sent me) I see the Mijo one which is free and the SH404SEF which is commercial. Will the Mijo one accomplish the same thing?
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Yes, Its one of the most popular Joomla extension
for more info - may refer - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef
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I agree and that is a downer because then all of that content is no good for seo... Is there a quick way to assign those pages to "noindex"?
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Should the Web company know what SH404sef is?
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Friendly urls and rewrite are both turned on.
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Their permalink structure is awful for SEO. These pages provide very little use for search engines, and should probably be set to "noindex".
As Charles pointed out, Joomla! is not a great platform for a heavy eCommerce site like this. I would also suggest Magento (although with it's advantages comes disadvantages - for one it's a processing beast and you'll likely need to upgrade to a better hosting company).
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Hi
Am using Joomla for over 2 yrs, there are some issues in Joomla but every issue has a solution attached to it and must say Joomla cms has mind blowing database features
For the stated issue - I see, there are 2 problems to it as mentioned :- Duplicate content and native url. It has one simple and small solution to it
- Use SH404sef to rewrite URL. The site does seems to use native url structure only. Enable SEF URL in Global configuration too. Also, it will enable to provide canonical url too. So, end result will be a clean url with canonical enabling to remove duplicate urls pointing too
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i take it ecwid doesnt support the native joomla friendly urls? are friendly urls and rewrite even switched on in the joomla core config page?
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Thanks for your response! Yes I agree with you regarding Joomla! and e-commerce. I crawled the internet to try to find a successful and properly SEOd Joomla! e-commerce website and was unable. I asked questions in many forums regarding potential plugins etc that would work with Joomla! and didn't get any responses.
Your #2 above says to "Remove all these queries". What do you specifically mean?
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