Duplicate Content & Titles

Business Marketing & SEO
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Hi there.



I am a CS Cart newbie and have a problem. Searched the forum and found a few ideas and add ons for the problem.



What I need to know which one would be the best to use? Or is there a better SEO approach in dealing with Duplicate content on CS Cart?



Thanks for the help.

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I'm interested in similar issues. Google shows me having duplicates in webmaster tools. It appears they are all from the “content” pages and “news”. I'm not sure why since they all have different titles. Google shows me having 2 of each.



Anyone have an idea how to fix this?

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Can you post an example of the 'duplicate' URL's?

4

Hi there fellow members,



This are some issues that i found dealing with cs-cart seo:

  1. category pagination:

    http://demo.cs-cart…tronics/page-2/

    http://demo.cs-cart…tronics/page-3/

    http://demo.cs-cart…tronics/page-4/

    …

    [color=#ff0000]issue: [/color]all have same title and description = duplicate

    [color=#ff0000]my solution:[/color] i change meta robots to noindex, follow in meta.tpl
    {if $controller=='categories' && $smarty.request.page>1}

    {/if}


    2.category page http://demo.cs-cart…nal/electronics can be linked this way also http://demo.cs-cart…al/electronics/

    [color=#ff0000]issue: [/color]both have same title and description = duplicate

    [color=#ff0000]my solution:[/color] i add http://demo.cs-cart…nal/electronics canonical to http://demo.cs-cart…al/electronics/



    i add on addons/my_changes/controller/customer/init.pre.php


if($controller == 'categories' && substr($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'],-1) != '/' ){
$canonical = 'http://'.Registry::get('config.http_host').Registry::get('config.http_path').$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'].'/';
$view->assign('canonical', $canonical);
}


and into meta.tpl
{if $canonical}{/if}

3. redirect non www to www


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]


4. redirect index.php to root http://www.nickyeoma…ect-single-page



This are the duplicates that i found,



I hope that helps,



Vali

5

Only not in cs-cart. I also face this similar kind of problem in Wordpress even i used Yoast SEO plugin but its doesn't help.

6

According to Google Webmaster Tools my shop also has duplicate titles and descriptions. Most are caused by catergory with or without trailing slash.



In the htaccess I added a redirect for the trailing slash problem, but for some reason this redirect doesn't work anymore.



Worked until some time ago:



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(php|html?|jpg|gif|png|css|js|tpl|flv|swf|xml|txt|pdf|ico)$

RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]



Also tried but didn't work:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[^./]+$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://eely.nl/$1/ [R=301,L]



Also tried the canonical solution provided by Vali, but the canonical link was always set to http://eely.nl/index.php?.



Any suggestions are welcome.

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@ehenderichs please try

<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(php|html?|jpg|gif|png|css|js|tpl|flv|swf|xml|txt|pdf|ico)$<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]<br />

```<br />
<br />
it's a little hard to make seo on that kind of website <img src="upload://ssa1U17ndImgNZSdwFNmOF2yUgM.png" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=";)">
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[quote name=‘Vali’ timestamp=‘1358381117’ post=‘152990’]

@ehenderichs please try

<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(php|html?|jpg|gif|png|css|js|tpl|flv|swf|xml|txt|pdf|ico)$<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]<br />

```<br />
<br />
it's a little hard to make seo on that kind of website <img src="upload://ssa1U17ndImgNZSdwFNmOF2yUgM.png" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=";)"><br />
[/quote]<br />
<br />
Doesn't work either. This redirect worked until some weeks ago. Not sure what changed.<br />
<br />
SEO is only hard because there is a lot of competition. But that was the challange of the project.
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Without good SEO optimization your site will be in trashcan.

10

where is the init.pre.php located or placed?

11

This is bug , in seo in cscart table seo_name may contain duplicate entry for seo friendly url

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I have a similar problem… Google is indexing things like this:



[size=“-1”][color=“” size="]48 Volt Motors[/color][/size][color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]





/dc-motor/36-volt-motors-en-2/



/dc-motor/36-volt-motors-en-2/?items_per_page=16



/dc-motor/36-volt-motors-en-2/?items_per_page=32



/dc-motor/36-volt-motors-en-2/?items_per_page=4



/dc-motor/36-volt-motors-en-2/?items_per_page=8[/size][/font][/color]



So webmaster tools shows that I have thousands of duplicates!

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this? its the same with every product on my pages!

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Please contact us to get the latest cs-cart canonical url addon. It will solve this kind of problem. Thanks.

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[quote name='Vali' timestamp='1358261584' post='152860']

3. redirect non www to www


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]


4. redirect index.php to root http://www.nickyeoma…ect-single-page

[/quote]



Hi Vali,



Waht this Solution do with Stores there are Placed in a Subdomain?



will redirect to www.shop2.domain.ch ?

15

Please have a look at our 4SEO add-on it solves or helps you solve pretty much any SEO issue with CS cart.

It's the most complete SEO addon available at present

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Can't you just go into robots.txt and say:



Disallow: /items_per_page=



A lot of these extensions, I believe, can be ignored. The problem I'm having now is Googlebot is looking for my sitemap at http://www.mysite.com/robots.txt and everything is being forwarded to: http://mysite.com/robots.txt.