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  • This is a popular plugin for managing parameters and faceted navigation in Magento: http://amasty.com/improved-navigation.html. I have read quite a few reviews on this plugin, and it seems to be referenced quite often (however I don't have experience with it). This paired with some robots.txt should do the trick. Hope this helps!

    | evan89
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  • Hi Siggi, There are certainly a lot of instances of "agent" being used on the page which you may be best to cut down on, e.g. using the product name in the roll-over - there are 345 instances of "agent" on that page alone. Don't worry about the Moz grader tool and the apostrophe - Google can understand this, even if Moz has trouble with it. So for example, on the text over the image for the "Vyztužený saénový korzet Penelope", perhaps use that text only, rather than including "L'Agent by Agent Provocateur" as well, etc.

    | JaneCopland
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  • Hi, May i know How did you solve you website indexing problem? I am facing the same problem with my website. Thank you.

    | TGOOSE
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  • The best way to handle this, for all crawlers including Google, Yahoo and Moz, is to make sure you have proper canonical tags on those URLs that point to the non-parameterized URL. So http://www.example.com/example-product.htm?ref=navside will have a canonical that points to http://www.example.com/example-product.htm

    | Cyrus-Shepard
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  • Ahhh the lightbulb just went off! Thanks a bunch

    | adamxj2
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  • For one, the hreflang markup tells Google which pages are similar to this exact page in your other localizations, which is not specified at all in webmaster tools.  From my understanding, the hreflang tags will swap out a page to the correct localized version on search result pages, which is doing a lot more than simply telling Google that the content in a subfolder is localized to a specific location.

    | john4math
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  • Hi. We are still having an issue with this initial crawl. How can we stop the server from timing out? Is there a certain setting that could be prohibiting the moz crawl? The site, www.cuptainers.com seems to be up and accessible with no down time. Thank you, Andrew

    | jampaper
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  • Good tip, thank you

    | CommT
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  • Hi Ben, I'd echo what Patrick has said and probably recommend his first suggestion the most. Google Webmaster Tools is a good way of checking indexation and if you have a large site with lots of categories, you can even break down the sitemaps by category so that you can see if certain areas are having problems. Here is an old, but still relevant post on the topic: http://www.branded3.com/blogs/using-multiple-sitemaps-to-analyse-indexation-on-large-sites/ In terms of creating the sitemap, Screaming Frog has an option under Advanced Export for creating an XML sitemap file for you which works very well. You just need to make sure you're only including pages that you want indexed in there. Cheers. Paddy

    | Paddy_Moogan
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  • Unfortunately, Moz Analytics/PRO don't process rel=prev/next properly at this time, so we may give false alarms on those pages, even if the tags are properly implemented. It can be tricky, but Google recommends a combination of rel=canonical and rel=prev/next. Use the canonical tag to keep sorts from getting indexed, and then use rel=prev/next for the pagination itself. Your 3rd example (page=2...) should rel=prev/next to the URLs before and after it but then canonical to the page=2 variation with no sort parameter. It can get complicated fast, unfortunately, but typically rel=canonical can be implemented in the template. So, once you've got it figured out, it'll work for the entire site.

    | Dr-Pete
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  • Aha - I was just logging in to Pro, now in Analytics and problem sorted. KUDOS to you Mr Censorious!

    | chris.elevate
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  • Keri, I am newish to Moz and have slowly started learning how to use all of the tools - its going to take some time and feels tricky right now! I am also trying to locate this duplicate content report and am spending a frustrating amount of time trying to find it, clicking and searching everywhere! Can someone please link to it for me? I am very time poor! I can't see it in the research tools, is not very clear at all.

    | BellyBellyKelly
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  • Thanks a lot guys. I've been trying the tips and tricks you guys provided and that's why I didn't close the question. Hope you guys don't mind answering few more new questions regarding the same issue. 1. When I take a SEO project onbard for a client, how should I go with writing blog content for him. Do you guys usually write content for them or you get the client to write them for you because they know the business best? For an example if the client is a Car Importer, he knows about importing cars and why people should import cars better than the SEO gurus?  2. Similar to question one, when it comes to answering questions on forums and advertising the clients business, do you guys usually do it for the client or you get the client to do it to support the SEO campaign? Sorry if these are stupid questions, but I literally have no idea how that works Thanks a lot guys in advance Jazz

    | JazzJack
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  • What plugins have you added recently? What settings have you changed in Wordpress? Something is causing a ton more URLs. I would worry less about the rel canonicals and more about the duplicate content. I am with Rohit and his advice, you need to noindex a ton of content including archives, tags and maybe categories. I would worry less about categories though.

    | katemorris
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  • It would be great to show this in the web interface

    | duncm
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  • Thank you!  I totally missed this in the migration checklist.  #facepalm It should be correct now. Thanks again, Jay

    | SSBCI
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  • Here's a bit more information on why rankings don't always match up. http://moz.com/help/pro/rankings.

    | KeriMorgret
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  • erm,  you could just use the search. magnifying glass icon, top right of the page. works for me.

    | JaspalX
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