Can i get some advice regarding duplicate content on Ecommerce site

Hi All,

Since most of your are experts at what you do hopefully you can advice me on how i can resolve the below issue without having to 301 each url manually which is just too long.


so this is my issue i have a ecommerce website and since i list the same product in multiple categories this is flagging them as duplicate content. how can i get rid of this issue without having to do it manually for the ones that are already appear as duplicate and for future products that get uploaded. i just need one url to be the main one in search engines eyes and get indexed, the rest just to be there without appearing as duplicate.



Example :

www.site.com/Blue-Maxi-Dress-With-Long-Sleeves

www.site.com/Clothing/Maxi-Dresses/Blue-Maxi-Dress-With-Long-Sleeves

www.site.com/Sale/Blue-Maxi-Dress-With-Long-Sleeves


Thank you
Abz

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Also, why don’t you just have one product-
Site.com/product-a
Then link to it from your category pages. Don’t make multiple versions of the product in every category.

davids355 said:

Thread moved.

Also, why don’t you just have one product-
Site.com/product-a
Then link to it from your category pages. Don’t make multiple versions of the product in every category.

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This.

Your url should be : www.site.com/Blue-Maxi-Dress-With-Long-Sleeves

This is then linked too from multiple category pages

The way your doing it currently you will almost certainly get popped for duplicate content.

Just create 1 product and you can link it to multiple categories.

And use the 1st one URL structure for your products.

thanks for the replies. how can i do that i can see theres a path like www.site.com/Blue-Maxi-Dress-With-Long-Sleeves but how do i make those other links in categories don't appear as duplicates. i use open cart and this options when i want to add the products to multiple categories but by doing this its making them appear duplicate content just in different locations.

Are you using Opencart multi-store?

I’ve had similar issues and was forced to host them on separate databases on different IP addresses and tweaked the content to make them all unique looking to Google.

I would also advise you to move from Opencart to Woocommerce, it’s much better for SEO than Opencart and simpler to customise.