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Hi there,

I’ve just completed the first crawl of my Magento site and SEOMOZ has picked up 1,000’s of duplicate pages, overly dynamic URL’s and long URL’s due to the sort function which appends URL’s with variables when sorting products (e.g. www.example.com?dir=asc&order=duration).

I’m not particularly concerned that this will affect our rankings as Google has stated that they are familiar with the structure of popular CMS’s and Magento is pretty popular.

However it completely dominates my crawl diagnostics so I can’t see if there are any real underlying issues.

Does anyone know a way of preventing this?

Cheers,
Al.

Is it worth trying to tackle this programmatically e.g. if url includes dir= or limit= or order= then include a noindex meta tag on that page?

It’s easy to exclude these parameters in Google Webmaster tools, but again I’d really like to reduce the number of errors reported by seoMOZ as currently I have 10,000 errors due to duplicate content!