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Should eCommerce Canonicalize to CMS

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TheNorthernOffice79 last edited by
We have inherited a site that has a Joomla CMS "showroom" front-end and a Magento "store room" for check out etc.

Question - As the site's main pages are in the CMS section should we:
1. make all Magento product pages canonical to the main sections/product pages within the CMS (even though there are no duplicate content issues)
2. "No index" the product pages
3. Index but indicate low page value in sitemap
4. Do something else?
Thanks for any and all input!
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Everett @TheNorthernOffice79 last edited by

Can you provide one example of each?

The answer at this point is: It depends on what the order page looks like.

My gut instinct is that the best solution will be "something else". But it would help to see the pages so we can assess the value and uniqueness of each (i.e. are they both worthy of being in the SERPs; do visitors need to see them both; are they both 100% unique, etc...).
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TheNorthernOffice79 last edited by

Let me re-word this ...

Should an order page be canonical to a product description page?
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