Kryptronic Software Support Forum
You are viewing this forum as a guest. Login to an existing account, or create a new account, to reply to topics and to create new topics.
Pages: 1
- Index
- » ClickCartPro and EuropaCart 8
- » Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
#1 01-28-2013 10:35:48
- sdn
- Member
- From: UK
- Registered: 05-29-2007
- Posts: 882
Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting all of our Category pages as having duplicate title tags. 6 versions for each category page as follows:
/Category/audio-amplifiers
/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=1m800p020c&prodsort=DEFAULT
/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=1m800p020c&prodsort=NAMEDN
/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=1m800p020c&prodsort=NAMEUP
/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=1m800p020c&prodsort=PRICEDN
/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=1m800p020c&prodsort=PRICEUP
How can we correct this?
Thanks
Simon
Simon
Offline
#2 01-28-2013 10:44:39
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
You could add the following to your robots.txt file to stop Google indexing non-seo urls - therefore removing any duplicates.
Code:
Disallow: /index.php?app=
Last edited by htw_simon (01-28-2013 10:44:59)
Offline
#3 01-28-2013 14:01:05
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
htw_simon wrote:
You could add the following to your robots.txt file to stop Google indexing non-seo urls - therefore removing any duplicates.
Code:
Disallow: /index.php?app=
I don't think this is the way to go -- the part of the software which writes the URL's checks to see if it's a search engine before it writes URL's, so unless something is majorly broke, this will not fix the issue.
sdn,
What's your site URL?
-James Garrett
Offline
#4 01-28-2013 14:18:52
- sdn
- Member
- From: UK
- Registered: 05-29-2007
- Posts: 882
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
Our website is http://www.quasarelectronics.co.uk/
We have been testing the software in a folder off the root so we could stop Google indexing it while it was under developmentment.
We made it live at the weekend and moved it to the root folder (the backend stayed in the same folder).
The changeover did not go entirely smoothly and I wonder if something broke as a result. I did not notice these horrible none SEO urls during development.
I am wondering if a clean install is the answer but cannot face the propect of restting it all.
Does anyone know if the software can analyse the html code imported into ecomprod for errors?
Thanks
Simon
Last edited by sdn (01-28-2013 14:22:46)
Simon
Offline
#5 01-29-2013 08:47:27
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
There are a couple of things you can do to avoid this:
(1) Under Store > Component > Settings > Product Listings, set 'Show Sort Options' to false. MOST EFFECTIVE
(2) Under Store > Component > Settings > Product Listings, set 'Products to Display per Page' to '60'. VERY EFFECTIVE
(3) In Google Webmaster Tools, under URL Parameters, set Google to ignore the 'prodsort' parameter.
Nick Hendler
Offline
#6 01-29-2013 09:11:23
- sdn
- Member
- From: UK
- Registered: 05-29-2007
- Posts: 882
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
Great. Thanks for that.
I have turned it off for now.
Google had already added prodsort to the URL Parameters list along with ref, ns, app, offset and count.
Are there any others that could be added?
Simon
Offline
#8 03-05-2013 16:28:58
- sdn
- Member
- From: UK
- Registered: 05-29-2007
- Posts: 882
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
Due to our htaccess file configuration error Google indexed all the original site pages plus the redirected pages that had "?COREseourl" in the url.
I want to make google drop these pages so I have added "COREseourl" to the URL Paramters section of Google webmaster tools and set it to not to crawl any of those pages.
Do you think that is the best way to do this?
Simon
Offline
#9 03-06-2013 09:24:40
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
You could put a redirect at the top of the page redirecting the offending URL to the homepage. Do a 301 and it should clear up in no time.
Nick Hendler
Offline
#10 03-08-2013 11:11:44
- sdn
- Member
- From: UK
- Registered: 05-29-2007
- Posts: 882
Re: Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags
I do not know how to do this. Can you explain?
Simon
Offline
Pages: 1
- Index
- » ClickCartPro and EuropaCart 8
- » Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Duplicate Title Tags