Duplicate Content Warning

[mozmonkey]

Hi Mozers,

I have a question about the duplicate content warnings I am recieving for some of my pages.  I noticed that the below pattern of URLs are being flagged as duplicate content.  I understand that these are seen as two different pages but I would like to know if this has an negative impact on my SEO? Why is this happening? How do I stop it from happening?

http://www.XXXX.com/product1234.html?sef_rewrite=1

http://www.XXXX.com/product1234.html

Thanks in advance!

[Keszi]

Hi Mozmonkey,

There is a very simple way to deal with this kind of issues: canonicalization. It is the key to tell Search Engines that the http://www.XXXX.com/product1234.html?sef_rewrite=1 is the same as http://www.XXXX.com/product1234.html

Adding the canonical link to the page will help you reduce the duplicate content from your website.

Greetings,

Istvan

[mozmonkey]

Hi István,

Thank you for your response!  This makes sense as I have not set up canonical links.  I will have to read up about setting this up and using it on CS-Cart.

Thanks!