Preventing duplicate content

Started by Ana Lucia, 07-07-2014, 03:46:40

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Ana LuciaTopic starter

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on the development of a new website and I would like to have some opinions on how to avoid duplicate content.

Duplicate content can be an issue, because:
- The website lists several products in several pages that can be sorted by type, price, colour, material, etc.
- The website also has an internal search engine

My recommendations would be:
– create a "view all" page for each product category, and in every variation generated by the filters apply rel="canonical" to that page
– add a "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" tag to each of the pages generated by internal searches

In your opinion, are these procedures correct?

Now, supposing the filters and the searches only add "#filter" and "#search" to the original URLs. Would the duplicate content still be a problem?

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.


Thank you,
Ana Lucia
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mts

Quote from: Ana Lucia on 07-07-2014, 03:46:40
Hi Everyone,

I'm working on the development of a new website and I would like to have some opinions on how to avoid duplicate content.

Duplicate content can be an issue, because:
- The website lists several products in several pages that can be sorted by type, price, colour, material, etc.
- The website also has an internal search engine

My recommendations would be:
– create a "view all" page for each product category, and in every variation generated by the filters apply rel="canonical" to that page
– add a "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" tag to each of the pages generated by internal searches

In your opinion, are these procedures correct?

Now, supposing the filters and the searches only add "#filter" and "#search" to the original URLs. Would the duplicate content still be a problem?

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.


Thank you,
Ana Lucia
This article should explain som things
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Megan Brown

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