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Hi Kane,

the sitemap is new - it's just that Magento create lots of duplicate files on the fly & it's not putting the canonical URLs in the sitemap etc.

I just wondered whether its worth hand creating a sitemap.xml containing the content pages (60 or 70 of them) for this relatively small site, or not worry too much about the sitemap, the site is pretty well indexed by google already

I'll head over to the Magento forums again to see if I can find more info

many thanks for you help

Hi all,

hope you can help.

the Magento ecommerce system I'm working with autogenerates sitemap.xml - it's well formed with priority and frequency parameters.

However, it has generated lots of URLs that are pointing to broken pages returning fatal erros, duplicate URLs (not canonicals), 404s etc

I'm thinking of hand creating sitemap.xml - the site has around 50 main pages including products and categories, and I can get the main page URLs listed by screaming frog or xenu.

Then I'll have to get into the hand editing the crud pages with noindex, and useful duplicates with canonicals.

Is this the way to go or is there another solution

thanks in advance for any advice

hi there,

we have a new ecommerce platform which has just been deployed, and I've been asked to tidy up the onpage SEO.

we have employed canonicals across the category and product pages and we now have a nice set of unique product pages

my question is - do we need to create the title tags in all of the duplicate non-canonical pages eg

www.mysite.com/niceproduct.html    (canonical)

www.mysite.com/acategory/niceproduct.html     (duplicate)

Can we leave the duplicate title tag empty and not worry about it, or should we put in a duplicate of the canonical title tag

hope the question makes sense!

thanks in advance for all help

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