Canonical URL/Duplicate Content Modules

[Andy1]

Please can someone recommend a module to help with duplicate content caused product pages in multiple categories?

 

I have seen quite a few of these modules, but don't know which one I should use. I would like the following:

• Deal with duplicate content caused by products in multiple categories
  
• When sorting A-Z, Price etc, this isn't seen as duplicate content.
  
• Also Meta tags aren't seen as duplicates when in multiple categories
  

There are probably more things I need from the module, so any advice would be very helpful.

 

Many Thanks

Andy

[guest*]

If you didn't touched your robots.txt and linking and are using an original Prestashop Theme, so there ist no DC issues coming from Prestashop.

 

The DC when products in multiple categories are coming, because you didn't linked your products to a defaul category and have them all linked as default to home.

 

I cannot reproduce the issues you are mentioning. My catalog has 19,000 products linked in several categories (300 at total), Sitemap ist ok and also the links indexed by google...

 

The sorting is disallowed in the robots.txt.

 

By the way, which PS are you using and which theme ?

[Andy1]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your reply

 

I am using this theme:

 

http://www.themespresta.net/pres-6

 

I updated to the latest PS version last week.

 

All my products are linked to a categories. There are 4 that are also linked to 'home' so they appear in the featured products block.

 

Is duplicate content and Canonical URL the same thing?

 

Many Thanks

Andy

[tomerg3]

Canonical URL is a tag that tells search engines, that while a page may have several addresses, they all refer to that one page.

In my mind, it's useless, since they still spend time crawling all the duplicates.

 

It is best to have a 301 redirect on all the duplicate pages (Ideally you would not even have any, but Prestashop had a pretty bad history with creating all these duplicates up until PS 1.4.3)

 

 

Check out http://www.prestashop.com/forums/index.php?/topic/39736-module-duplicate-url-redirect-redirect-all-duplicate-and-non-seo-friendly-urls-to-the-default-friendly-url/ It will take care of all the orderby / sortby duplicates (giving search engines a 301 redirect) as well as many other useful redirects.

[Tung at RockPOS.com]

This is an old post but still helpful for me