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Thanks for your response.

I am already employing the rel=canonical tag, however I didnt realise I could use Google's Webmaster tools.

Ensuring the sitemap is correct will also contribute to clustering the appended different queries as I understand.

Yes I forgot the variable when typing the example url & query out!

Thanks.

I have a Magento site.  In order to reduce duplicate content for products of the same style but with different colours I have combined them on to 1 product page.

I would like to allow the pictures to be dynamic, i.e. allow a user to search for a colour and all the products that offer that colour appear in the results, but I dont want the default product image shown but the product image for that colour applying to the query.

Therefore to do this I have to append a query string to the end of the URL to produce this result:

www.website.com/category/product-name.html?=red

My question is, will the query variations then be picked up as duplicate content:

• www.website.com/category/product-name.html
• www.website.com/category/product-name.html?=red
• www.website.com/category/product-name.html?=yellow

Google suggest it has contingencies in its algorithm and I will not be penalised:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/google-duplicate-content-caused-by-url.html

But other sources suggest this is not accurate.  Note the article was written in 2007.