Duplicate or not ?
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Hello,
I have an ecommerce website with products
I have many categories and more products are associated with several categories (I can not do otherwise).
Urls of each product are not duplicated because I have : http://www.site.com/product-name
However, my breadcrumb varies depending on the way.
I have for example:
If I go through the A section and sub-section Aa, my breadcrumb will:
Home> Section A> subheading Aa> product 1If >> I go through the B section and sub-section Ca, my breadcrumb will:
Home> Section B> subheading Ca> product 1My question: is that with only a breadcrumb different for my product sheets, there is a duplication?
My opinion ...... not because the url of the page is unique.
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry for the english, i'm french
D.
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Correct, I don't see a duplication issue.
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Thanks Tom.
So, there is not duplication, right ?
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What Tom said is right. I have a kind of similar system on my own website virtualsheetmusic.com for breadcrumbs, and it is cookie (session_id) based. Is your breadcrumbs system cookie based? If so that shouldn't be a problem. Try to browse your website with cookies disabled to see if the breadcrumbs change or not. If they don't change and shows you a sort of "default" display, you should be safe because that's the way Google is going to see your breadcrumbs.
But as Tom said, changing or having different breadcrumbs while browsing the site can give you spiderability and link profile issues, but not duplicate issues since that's just related to the actual URL of each page.
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Hi Denis
The important thing here is to know that Google sees duplicate content via URLs.
Therefore, if two URLs exist that have similar content, it will see it as duplicate content. These could be two different URLs, like how you described, or even two versions of the same URL, such as www.domain.com/blog.html and www.domain.com/blog?query.html
If Google indexes more than one URL with the same content on the page, it is potentially duplicate content.
Hope that answers your question. If not, let me know!
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