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We have a ton of warnings - over 10 k - that are paths that SEOMOZ is getting redirected to an enable cookies page - but anyone with cookies enabled is not.

Does this matter?

Thats my fear.  So that leaves my 5 301s to what is now the same page - so 5 old links now link to the same content.  Does not that make the old links show up as duplicate content?

Ive read other posts that say using accordion is not detrimental to SEO, and for conversion optimization we want to take several of our existing pages and make them into one accordion.

But what will this do to seo and duplicate content as I redirect the old pages to anchors in the accordion?  I would think this would be a dup content problem as

www.oldinfo1

www.oldinfo2

will now have their content on the same page but I will be redirecting them to

www.newpage#oldinfo1

www.newpage#oldinfo2

Is there a way around duplicate content problems?

I have product category pages that correctly have the prev next but the moz crawl is giving me duplicate content errors.  I would not think I also need to have canonical - but do I ?

Per Svanstrom,

This is a great way of thinking of it and you answer makes a lot of sense to me.

In case someone finds this later looking for Magento Category advice - what you see in many magento seo posts is to not use categories in the path due poor native canonical handling especially when products end up in multiple category paths.  It seems a lot better plan to follow the functionality advice of Per's post and just fix  the canonical problems in the design or by adding an extension.

Our store is in magento and many recommend to turn of category names in product paths as magento creates duplicate pages for the same content when products are in multiple categories.  I have a canonical plugin that should fix dup paths.

This has not bothered me until I decided to create GA goals for seeing multiple products and realized I dont have an easy filter because the paths dont have categories.

I think I can add a suffix to products like /?t=p  - If I can do so will that be enough for me to create goals in GA - or am I better off adding back category paths.

I checked and it is a magento feature to rewrite caps to lower case.

I added this to htaccess anyway

<code>RewriteMap lc int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R=301,L]</code>

One last question before I take this question to a magento forum - how can I look at a page with a caps URL and lower URL and see if they are really different pages or link to the same address.

When you change random letters to caps in our site it sends you to the right page but my browser still shows the mixed caps url instead of replacing with an all lower url - but is that really a different page or is the browser just not changing the caps display when it is really getting the lower case page
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Looks like I do need some more help.

I get a redirect loop if I enter a redirect from

http://www.madebysurvivors.com/DESTINY

to

http://www.madebysurvivors.com/destiny

but I checked and there is no redirect the other way in our database or htaccess.

If I leave the redirect off I get duplicate content - but in the CMS parts of magento there is only one table for this page.

I actually moved all the content from a drupal install so I dont have that many URLs that have the problem.  It looks like the faster way to do this is just redirects the caps to lower case as thats what we use elsewhere..

I dug into the underlying database and cant find any duplicate entries for these pages or odd redirects so I have no idea of the cause.

For some of the pages I think you are right that magento is moving caps down to lower, but there are a few others where it is lower to caps - but it was caps in the drupal site.

Anyway -good to know google sees them differently so Ill put in redirects.  Its only about 20 pages

Im getting a bunch of duplicate content errors where the crawl is saying

www.url.com/abc has duplicate at www.url.com/ABC

The content is in magento and the url settings are lowercase, and I cant figure out why it thinks there is duplicate consent.  These are pages with a decent number of inbound links.