301 Or Canonical, Which one is more effective for eCommerce Website ?

[yuvastyle]

I have my own eCommerce website. I want to avoid duplicate category pages so which method is more useful 301 redirection or Canonical url?

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi Jayneel,

In this case of yours, you should ideally go in for URL canonicalization as you are dealing with content duplication due to product category pages.

For more info : http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139066

Here is another one from Google regarding the duplicate content issues:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

Hope these help and please feel free to post here if you have any queries in this regard.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

[yuvastyle]

Thank You Devanur for your reply.