Will the Canonical tag fix this issue?
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I recently joined promoz and I've been busy working through the issues raised brought to light during the crawls of our Magento site, www.unitedbmwonline.com.
One of many issues were the 10,000+ Duplicate Page Titles which I believe are the result of not using Canonical tags when setting up the store.
This is now corrected and hopefully I'll see a significant drop in this value after this next crawl.
Am I correct in this assumption?
Cheers,
Steve
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Yes, still trying to track the down the issue.
Steve
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Daniel,
Adding the canonical tag made a huge difference, dropping the 10,000+ pages down to less than 10. Now hopefully our site will start to work it's way up the rankings
Cheers,
Steve
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And I'm seeing a small broken image icon on every page except for the home page.
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Steve,
I'm not sure. I'm assuming it would.
But one thing I noticed is that this page: http://www.unitedbmwonline.com/bmw-parts.html, a main category page, takes you to a 404 page. Something to fix.
Daniel
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