New Magento shop - how to best avoid duplicate content?
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Hi all,
My clients are about to have th elatest version of the free Magento store set up.
It will sell in at least to different languages, so this need to be taken into account.
Could any of you give some advice on what is the best way to avoid DC (if possible)?
The shop is by now clean (from dc) but from experience I konw this will no continue...
Thanks,
Best regards,
Christian
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Hi Alsvik,
Thank you for your answer.
I have read that article before (and did read it again..:) ).
However, that solution will help a lot, but I am not sure that it will solve all the problems that I expect will come..
What I am more concerned about is the Magento platform itself - it has bad reputation when it comes to creating DC - so will the above mentioned article do the trick, or is it simply impossible to avoid DC on Magento Platforms?
Christian
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Hi Christian Kirkegaard
You should read this article:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.se/2010/09/unifying-content-under-multilingual.html
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