Pages with Duplicate Page Content
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Hi
Just started use the Moz and got an analytics report today!
There about 104 duplicate pages apparently, the problem is that they are not duplicates, but just the way the page has been listed with a description! The site is an Opencart and every page as got the name of the site followed by the product name for the page!
How do you correct this issue??
Thank for your help
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Hello DRSMPR,
You don't have any meta descriptions at all on those pages, and the title tag is just one word. Both of these should be optimized for every category page and product page. However, I don't think that has anything to do with the alerts you are receiving from Moz. I think those are related to non-canonical URLs produced by the system whenever sorting parameters are added to the URL. For example:
http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Decleor
The page above is the same as the URL below:
http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Decleor?sort=p.price&order=ASCThis causes a lot of duplicate content issues, as can be seen with this Google search. You can fix it in several different ways. I will list them below in order of my preference:
#1 Use a rel canonical tagThis URL ---> http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Decleor?sort=p.price&order=ASC - should list this URL ---> http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Decleor - as the rel="canonical" URL. Learn more here.
#2 Use the robots.txt file
Your site does not currently have a robots.txt file ( http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/robots.txt ). If you had one you could put this into it to keep those URLs from being crawled and indexed:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /?sort=#3 Use a robots noindex meta tag
The following would go on all of the pages with ?sort= in the URL:You could also put a noindex directive in the robots.txt file. This works well, but isn't often used by people because it isn't officially part of the robots.txt protocol, though Google does obey the command.
If you have questions specific to how you should implement them on your CMS (OpenCart) I think the OpenCart help forums would be the best place to go for that information.
PS: This page also uses content that other websites are using. You need to write your own content for every category and product page. Never use the manufacturer or brand description. Always write your own: http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Decleor
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I have contacted Open Cart but without success!!
The URLs are auto generated but the problem is not the name of the products but the brand name, I can't be make much changes or make them very descriptive, if the problem in question is the name of a specific brand!!
this below are just a few example of 104 High Priority issues I have on my site:
http://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Noubahttp://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Decleorhttp://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Spa-Organicshttp://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/The-Body-Collectionhttp://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Olivellahttp://www.bebeautifulboutique.com/Elizabeth-ArdenHow can I solve this issue?thanks in advance for any help you can offer me!
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You've contacted OpenCart? If your page URLs are auto generated based on the name of the product on that page, you can optimize your the product names, make them very descriptive. Keywords in the URL are have weight in search.
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Hi
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, the problem is I have got same content in the meta title and description tag!
How can I avoid that? OpenCart doesn't allow any other different way to describe the title!
thanks
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It doesn't only flag duplicate content on the page, but also in your meta tags. You probably have the same content in your meta title and description tags, have you checked for that? I
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