Added data to links
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Hello
I am in the process of cleaning a site and getting less pages cached.
it is a magento site and I was wondering what is your advice fo pages that get this
padded to the link ?material=139&price=10%2C12 accept the obvious canonical?
thanks
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It's really tough for us to tell what those parameters do, so you have to be careful. Just because a URL has certain parameters doesn't mean it's a duplicate. If these really are duplicate or near duplicate pages, you've got a few options:
(1) Consolidate them with rel-canonical
(2) Block them with META NOINDEX (Meta Robots)
(3) Block/ignore the parameters in Google Webmaster Tools
It's a complex subject, and I have a mega-post about it here:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world
I'm not a Magento expert, though - Joost de Valk has some resources worth checking out:
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Is there a way to prevent SEO MOz tools for including those pages
I see them at duplicate page content error and once canonical is there it should not be considered an error, it is just on the way of having nit reports
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One you add the canonical tag, those URLs will essentially get deindexed and only the canonical version of the URL will get indexed/cached in Google.
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Hello Nakul
yes canonical is very important here.
what are your thoughts about the messy reports it creates and the number of pages cached by Google?
Just curious about the work process with those pages present on the reports
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Hello Nakul
yes canonical is very important here.
what are your thoughts about the messy reports it creates and the number of pages cached by Google?
Just curious about the work process with those pages present on the reports
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Canonical Tag is the most obvious/optimal solution to get rid of these kinds of pages getting indexed and causing internal duplicate content issues.
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