Google Indexing Multi-Store Best Practice
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Hi Guys,
We currently have a main store view and a uk store view setup with a Litespeed Redirect for our website, redirecting UK IP Customers to the UK Store.
We recently noticed that we were running into some issues with Google indexing pages from the uk site as well as the main store view. With trying to avoid duplicate content, my question being: What is the best practice for google indexing the UK and Main store views?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Just FYI, noindexing to handle duplication isn't really best practice now and isn't advised by Google. Rel=canoncial is there to help with duplication issues.And you certainly don't want to be implementing iframes to your site to try and get around this
-Andy
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In addition to Andy, I would say, if you're using same content for both stores. I would urge you to use ifram or no-index tags to the relevant page or copy of the site in order to eliminate the duplication issue.
Here is complete guide for you. Choose which suits you the best. I hope it helps.
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Hi,
I haven't used Litespeed myself, but where is the main store view targeted to? Have you implemented HREFLANG to signal to Google which pages are for which audience?
-Andy
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