Duplicate Content Issue in Magento
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Hi I need help in resolving the duplicate content issue on my magento site I got a product
My main product url is https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/shop-by-product/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest and it got variation of url see below that are causing duplicate content issue , I have inserted the canonical tag on the below url and my main url is https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/shop-by-product/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest but still moz is showing it as duplicate content.
Help Please
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| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/product/oak-bedroom-furniture/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/6/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/17/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/shop-by-range/boston/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/42/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/63/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/67/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/46/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/79/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/88/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/75/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/90/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/92/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/33/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/27/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/shop-by-range/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/50/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/22/ |
| https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/74/ | -
Roger is plain smart. Not wise.
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Hi Adnan,
remember that the rel="canonical" is not a directive, hence it is not saying "Bots don't index this URL, index this other one", but "Could you bots don't index this URL, and instead index this other one?".
The canonical tag is a suggestion, that usually Google, Bing and Yahoo! respect.
But the canonicalized URLs still are crawled... and for that reason Roger Mozbot alerts you about the duplicate content issue (as well as it notices you that they have the canonical tag set up.
If you know that they are ok, simply don't care of them.
But knowing how Mozbot has a limited budget crawl, if you really want the best from its crawling service, disallow just for it those kinds of duplicates via robots text.
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If you check your Robots.txt https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/robots.txt You will see the fallow lines:
## Do not crawl seach pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links Disallow: /catalogsearch/ Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/ Disallow: /catalog/category/view/ Disallow: /catalog/product/view/ Also if you Google site:https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/6/ Your site do not show up... So you are GOOD.
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You need to stop Moz's crawler from crawling these potential duplicate pages. You need not worry as Google will not index them. What Moz tells you is that if you do not wish to index these pages, block it from crawlers. No point in the crawlers crawling these pages anyway.
If you email me direct, I can send you a standard robots.txt that we use to block out the crawlers from most potential duplicate and unnecessary pages.
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