Duplicate Content is a major issue on any E-commerce website and as an online marketer we need to ensure that our website should not effect in search engines due to this duplicate issue.
Magento CMS provides a simple fix for the same but this fix is not enough to get rid of the duplicate content issue, i will explain how to fix this issue completely in 4 simple steps.
As in Magento based website the duplicate content issue arise due to multiple pages created in Categories or in Product Pages. We need to fix the duplicate issue for both categories and Products separately in Magento, below is the Step-by-Step process for the same.
Step 1:
Fixing it through the Admin Panel.
Go to your Admin Panel > System> Configuration.
Then under Catalog > Search Engine Optimizations change –
“Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories” option to “yes”.
This will fix the Duplicate content issue for Category pages.
Note: do not change “Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products” option, keep it as “No”.
Step 2:
Go to your Google Webmaster Account, under Search Appearance > HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags Download the data in .csv file.
After downloading the file you have the data of all products and their total duplicate pages crawled by Google.
Step 3:
Now you have all the products and their duplicate links in the sheet, go to the sheet and manually decide which page(link) you want to be the primary(original content ) link. After you complete this exercise, you have the primary page and duplicate page for each product in the .csv file ( duplicate title file).
Now you have to follow Step 4 mentioned below to fix all duplicate issue in the product pages.
Step 4:
In this step we need to put Canonical tag in all the product page, this is an manual task and need good amount of time, but this is the best fix for Magento product pages duplicate issue.
Go to Magento Admin Area > Catalog > Manage product
choose the respective product page ( the product you want to modify) and click to open it.
On the Product page go to Product Information > Design > Custom layout update
Put the below code after Replacing “productcanonicalurlhere” with your primary URL (the one you choose as primary) and
Code –
<reference name =”head”>
<action method=”addLinkRel”>
<rel>canonical</rel>
<href>http://www.productcanonicalurlhere.com/</href>
</action>
</reference>
After putting the above code, Click on “Save and continue Edit” option, and then move to the next product.
After you fix all the products in you downloaded .csv file , the canonical issue on your site will be fixed to a great extent.
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