Technical SEO question for eCommerce sites

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Ali Ravari

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Feb 24, 2020

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• May 8, 2020

• #1

I have a client with a large eCommerce site, and Google appears to be indexing some duplicate pages as a result of dynamic URL parameters, i.e. example.com/add-to-wishlist?=3452

How would you guys combat this? I was thinking to just disallow crawling of */add-to-wishlist* in the robots.txt. Should I do anything else?

 

avyatechnology

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Apr 15, 2020

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• May 8, 2020

• #2

Yes, I feel that is right. I have also blocked such URLs by robots.

 

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MisterXYZ

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Jul 5, 2017

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• May 8, 2020

• #3

@Ali Ravari

Do not block urls.

Use canonical meta tag.

 

Sweely

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Jun 7, 2009

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• May 31, 2020

• #4

MisterXYZ said:

@Ali Ravari

Do not block urls.

Use canonical meta tag.

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+1. Use canonicals in this case.

I wouldn't be surprised if your CMS is already adding unique canonicals for the pages that you think are duplicates. As long as that is done you shouldn't have to worry.

Have you checked the source code for those pages to see if there's a canonical tag somewhere?

 

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Green911

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• Jun 1, 2020

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I'm using canonical URLs for main pages.