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Multiple product pages causes duplicate content

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:42 pm
by draneb
Hello,

I need help fixing an issue... I logged into the Google Webmaster Tools area and notice that under HTML suggestions it mentions that I have 30 duplicate title pages and 30 duplicate meta description pages.

When checking out the links they are all from multiple product pages like this
Apparel-C24.aspx?s=Name ASC&p=1
Apparel-C24.aspx?s=Name ASC&p=5

I am using this code in the categorygrid4 file
Page.Title = _Category.Name + " yada, yada and yada.";

Is there anyway to append the Page number, or something else, to the title tag if there is more than 1 page of products?

I guess the same thing would need to be done to the meta description. That code is in my pagehelper.cs file and is also dynamically generated.

Thank you very much.

Re: Multiple product pages causes duplicate content

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:23 am
by jmestep
I remember doing this before. Was it for you and Able 5? I added the page number into the title or url, if I remember correctly.

Re: Multiple product pages causes duplicate content

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:17 pm
by draneb
Judy,

You are right I vaguely remember that. It was done for version 5.5.
Hmmm, can we do that again please? I have the same problem again. :)

I guess this would apply to everyone, right? Even those who manually type in the title and description.

Thank you.

Re: Multiple product pages causes duplicate content

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:26 am
by draneb
Hello,

Does anyone have an idea how to append something to the title on additional product pages to avoid duplicate content?

Say you have 50 products in a category and display 15 per page. This would be for the additional pages you view. Right now the titles remain the same and Google is saying, No Bueno...