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What happens to the URL when you edit the category or product name? Or more specifically, how does it affect SEO? Does Google see it as another page? Will it be a duplicate page? Is the original deleted from Google index?

I need to know because I found a misspelling or two. Also, I am doing SEO and think that possible I should change some names to some more popular key words.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott
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http://www.contractors-solutions.net

It will show up in Google as a duplicate url and they might not drop the old one because the old url will still work as long and the Cxx and/or Pxx are the same.

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I think you are right. I just tried one that I had corrected a typo.

The "Safety" was originally typed wrong as "Saefty"

http://www.contractors-solutions.net/QC ... -P762.aspx
http://www.contractors-solutions.net/QC ... -P762.aspx

They both work.

Perhaps I should just copy the product and then delete the original one?

kwikstand wrote:Perhaps I should just copy the product and then delete the original one?

That'll change the Pxxx value in the URL - probably won't give you the result you want. Once the Pxxx value is changed the old URL will no longer function.

I think I will make the corrections and not worry about duplicate content. I think maybe people make too much of it. Here is something I read that was put out by Google:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/ ... ntent-myth

I have another question about Able creating duplicate titles, but I will post that ass a new subject in a few minutes.

Thanks for your input.
Scott Kahle

I don't know about that. I don't want to have too much duplicate content regardless. That links says that Google says it's okay to have duplicate content for URLs like domain.com/index.html or default.html but not URLs like redcar.aspx, redcars.aspx. Our AC product pages, in my opinion, look like unintentionally spamming the search engines.

For future releases I don't see why it would be so hard to have the server return a 404 page not found error if the URL is not an exact match. If we change the product title we will want the page re-crawled anyways. Would there be any drawbacks to this?

Even better...a 301 (permanent redirect) to the latest.

Ironically, Google at least, would not have trouble with following 2 URLs pointing to the same product:

http://www.company.com/WINTER-TOOLS-SNO ... px?C=3&P=2
http://www.company.com/OUTDOOR-TOOLS-SN ... px?C=4&P=2

Somewhere on their webmaster site, they explain that they know that is how e-commerce websites work (products in multiple categories) and their algorithm would figure out that the 2 URLs point to the same product and would not count as duplicate content. But they need the querystring to figure this out.