Been stuck on seo duplication issues shopify
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hey there
we have been working on some of our webshops and recently started with analytics/moz,but we have basicly hit a brick wall when it comes to www.krawattenwelt.de since we have had 5k high priority issues (duplicate content) and 20k medium priority issues now i have tried a large amount of solutions regarding the duplicate content issues but it didnt work so we basicly reverted it back to for now and i have the feeling i am really running out of options is there anyone who has an idea on how to do this?
duplicate content issues are as follows
example:http://krawattenwelt.de/collections/budget-9-15
issues with:http://krawattenwelt.de/collections/budget-9-15/modell_normal
and with:http://krawattenwelt.de/collections/budget-9-15/modell_normal?page=1
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Let us know how it goes, Rashad.
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So right now i have changed our canonical code to
{% if template contains 'collection' and current_tags or canonical_url contains 'page' %}
{% else %}
{% endif %}
doing a recrawl a the moment hopefully it works
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Pointing to themselves won't produce a duplicate
True, but won't get rid of duplicate either.
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Your canonicals look to be in order. Pointing to themselves won't produce a duplicate, what this helps with is retaining strength from modified URLs like referrer IDs. For example, if example.com/product has a canonical pointing to itself and I link to example.com/product?refid=1234, the strength from my link is going to be correctly passed to the product page rather than a non-existent refid path.
Moz has a pretty comprehensive post on the topic that might clear somethings up if you're unsure.
While the canonicalisation will clear up things like ?page=1, I think a better approach here is going to be trying to remove the duplication rather than mask it.
Each of the above pages really are exact duplicates which means they're not actually helping the user at all. Perhaps simplifying this structure and offering less filtering options could help to significantly decrease the number of pages you have to manage, clear up a lot of the duplicate content problems and optimise your crawl budget as well.
As an example, rather than having a page for ties within a certain budget range, why not remove this option entirely? As a helpful alternative, show them all ties in a category and allow them to sort by price from low to high instead.
Hopefully this all makes sense!
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Hi there.
Ok, time to brush up on canonicals Canonical link is a link to another(!) page, if you want that page to "substitute" the original page in terms of ranking and juice flow in the eyes of search engines.
So, if you set canonical link to page itself (and that's how it is on pages you listed above), and those pages look exactly the same (and they do), of course they are going to be duplicates.
What you need to do is to set this-> http://krawattenwelt.de/collections/budget-9-15 as canonical for this-> http://krawattenwelt.de/collections/budget-9-15/modell_normal and use google parameter tool (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters) to exclude this-> http://krawattenwelt.de/collections/budget-9-15/modell_normal?page=1 from indexing.
Cheers
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