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Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:47 pm
by Franz-Peter
Double content can only happen by some additional modules or functions. Examples are new products or featured products. If there is a new product on the home page, it is at the same time in its category listed as a product. And if it is also declared as featured, there are 3 links to the same product. Is that, what you mean with duplicated content?
I think it is very difficult to exclude that.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:22 pm
by suhanto
Franz,
I managed to avoid (or reduce) duplicated contents in OpenCart here:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6677
In my solution, I have to choose that product link is not prefixed by any attributes (category, manufacturer), and suffixes (for example in the search result; I don't get the point why the resulting links are added by search parameters).
So, if originally the content are duplicated across several links, for example:
- /ipod-nano
- /mp3-players/ipod-nano
- /apple/ipod-nano
in my solution, all links are consolidated into:
wherever it is accessed. This is possible, since rewrite module in OC is done inside PHP scripts, so it is easy to change.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:36 pm
by towerofbabel
suhanto wrote:Franz,
I managed to avoid (or reduce) duplicated contents in OpenCart here:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6677
In my solution, I have to choose that product link is not prefixed by any attributes (category, manufacturer), and suffixes (for example in the search result; I don't get the point why the resulting links are added by search parameters).
So, if originally the content are duplicated across several links, for example:
- /ipod-nano
- /mp3-players/ipod-nano
- /apple/ipod-nano
in my solution, all links are consolidated into:
wherever it is accessed. This is possible, since rewrite module in OC is done inside PHP scripts, so it is easy to change.
Nice solution.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:53 pm
by adam777
Has anyone written a decent:
1.
robots.txt file to handle duplicate content,
2.
301 redirect in the HTACCESS file to handle all the possible Canconical URLs (more multiples of duplicate content), by redirecting everything to
http://www.site.com/ or whatever your url choice is,
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advic ... alization/
...and willing to share? It's been fixed for Magento in their forum with these 2 fixes, so I guess its been done for Opencart by someone.
Cheers
Adam
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:18 pm
by towerofbabel
adam777 wrote:Has anyone written a decent:
1.
robots.txt file to handle duplicate content,
2.
301 redirect in the HTACCESS file to handle all the possible Canconical URLs (more multiples of duplicate content), by redirecting everything to
http://www.site.com/ or whatever your url choice is,
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advic ... alization/
...and willing to share? It's been fixed for Magento in their forum with these 2 fixes, so I guess its been done for Opencart by someone.
Cheers
Adam
robots.txt
solves dup. content if you can match it to a pattern, but doesn't help with link equity going to waste (doesn't stop the CMS creating alternative URLs, and therefore doesn't take preventative measures against other websites linking to you with alternative URLs)
301 redirect
ok solution, but preferable to stop the duplication before documents are parsed.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:24 pm
by adam777
towerofbabel wrote:
301 redirect
ok solution, but preferable to stop the duplication before documents are parsed.
That's one side of the problem -although I don't understand parsing as I'm a hack
The other side is people typing or linking irrelevant urls like:
http://mysite.com
http://mysite.com/
http://www.mysite.com
instead of
http://www.mysite.com/
Would the top of the .HTACCESS file look like this?
Code: Select all
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite\.com/index.php?route=common/home$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite\.com/$1 [R=301,L]
At the Apache.org website they mention something different which I don't understand, but that's ok.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:38 pm
by towerofbabel
adam777 wrote:towerofbabel wrote:
301 redirect
ok solution, but preferable to stop the duplication before documents are parsed.
That's one side of the problem -although I don't understand parsing as I'm a hack
The other side is people typing or linking irrelevant urls like:
http://mysite.com
http://mysite.com/
http://www.mysite.com
instead of
http://www.mysite.com/
Would the top of the .HTACCESS file look like this?
Code: Select all
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite\.com/index.php?route=common/home$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite\.com/$1 [R=301,L]
At the Apache.org website they mention something different which I don't understand, but that's ok.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
This issue has nothing to do with opencart specifically, as you are talking about the canonical domain root- and yes, it is a totally great thing to do, even though in the last year google deals with it really well - bing doesnt though.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:04 pm
by ctellier
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/store/$1 [R=301,L]
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:44 pm
by ANTHONY009
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Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:54 pm
by jty
ANTHONY009 wrote:By interacting with our clients and by truely understanding their needs as if they were our own, we decided to launch
to better serve the undeniable growing need for SEO specific hosting packages.
I don't understand. If your SEO is so great, then why do you need to spam forums to get clients.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:57 pm
by Xsecrets
jty wrote:ANTHONY009 wrote:By interacting with our clients and by truely understanding their needs as if they were our own, we decided to launch
to better serve the undeniable growing need for SEO specific hosting packages.
I don't understand. If your SEO is so great, then why do you need to spam forums to get clients.
LMAO!!
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:16 am
by martfoxhosting
The rel="nofollow" is an attribute you can set on an HTML <a> link tag, invented by Google, and adopted by others. Those links won't get any credit when Google ranks websites in the search results, but wont avoid indexing.
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:50 pm
by mystifier
jty wrote:ANTHONY009 wrote:By interacting with our clients and by truely understanding their needs as if they were our own, we decided to launch to better serve the undeniable growing need for SEO specific hosting packages.
I don't understand. If your SEO is so great, then why do you need to spam forums to get clients.
I must admin ANTHONY009, you did make yourself sound a bit of an arse. Welcome to the forum for sharing technical advice, I hope can make good contribution (there's no 'e' in truly by the way).
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:29 am
by PaulSmith1
Yes, it would give you SEO advantage, don't worry about other things, keep doing!
Re: SEO duplicated content
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:22 pm
by rapidsphare
Duplicate Content Tool can also be useful to check if your resellers, partners or competitors are grabbing or reusing your original content.