Block url with dynamic text in

[Beermonster]

I've just ran a report and I have a lot of duplicate page titles, most of which seem to be the review page, I use Magento and my normal url would be something like

blah-blahtext.html but the review url is something like

blah-blahtext/reviews/category/categoryname

So I want to block the /reviews url bit as no one ever leaves reviews and it's not something I will be using in the future.

Also I have a dynamic navigation which creates urls that look like product-name.html?size=2&colour=14 these are also creating duplicate urls, anyway to fix this?

While I'm asking, anyone any tips for Magento?

[Matthew_Edgar]

From the sounds of it, you need to set canonical URLs as there probably is no easy way to block the review or navigation URLs (since those are on a product-by-product basis). For example, on the review URL (blah-blahtext/reviews/category/categoryname) you would have a canonical tag to blah-blahtext.html. On the category URL, you could set the canonical to product-name.html. That way if Google/Bing see the URLs and the duplicated content, the canonical indicates that those URLs should be treated as an alternative version of the canonical URL.

[Highland]

Just canonical your urls to the root page and that should fix the problem.

[NakulGoyal]

I would suggest implementing canonical tag for Magento. That would take care of duplicate URLs for the same pages. As for the review pages, if you are not using the functionality, isn't there a way to disable them completely from within Magento administration ? If not, I would first install that canonical fix and see what you see on those review pages. If not, you can always do a disallow using robots.txt but it's better to have them not exist at all specially when you are not even using them instead of doing a disallow/noindex kind of thing.

I hope that helps.

[Beermonster]

Thanks everyone for the quick replies, I already have canonical tag, like this page

The errors I'm getting are showing in the seomoz crawls

http://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/1-35-german-camo-disc-ak-interactive-ak-157/reviews/category/ak-interactive#review-form

Page shows this in it

<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/1-35-german-camo-disc-ak-interactive-ak-157.html" /> 

[NakulGoyal]

This is good. It's not an error, its a warning. So you are good from both the duplicate URLs issue as well as the canonical tags I think.

[Beermonster]

Thanks, so it's not something I should be concerned about.