Duplicate page title caused by Shopify CMS

[SimonDevlin]

Hi,

We have an ecommerce site set up at devlinsonline.com.au using Shopify and the MOZ crawl is returning a huge number (hundreds!) of Duplicate Page Title errors.

The issue seems to be the way that Shopify uses tagging to sort products.

So, using the 'Riedel' collection as an example, the urls

devlinsonline.com.au/collections/riedel-glasses/

devlinsonline.com.au/collections/riedel-glasses/decanters

devlinsonline.com.au/collections/riedel-glasses/vinum all have the exact same page title.

We are also having the same issue with the blog and other sections of our site.

Is this something that is actually a serious issue or, perhaps, is Google's algorithm intelligent enough to recognise that this is part of Shopify's layout so it will not negatively affect our rankings and can, essentially, be ignored?

Thanks.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

I wouldn't trust Google to fix the issues you have on your site as they definitely don't support all major content management systems. As it seems other pages on your site have their page titles fixed hopefully you can give it a try.

[JarnoNijzing]

Simon,

do you have any control over your page titles of the markup of the pages?

The best title markup is for this partiular instance would be:

Riedel Glasses | Devlin's Online

Decanters - Riedel Glasses | Devlin's Online

etc.

this will only work if you have any control over your page markup especially the page title, meta description etc.

I'm not very familiar with Shopify but since almost every CMS/Commerce package out their has some way of controlling what is shown on a page I would try something to that effect.

Regards

Jarno

[JarnoNijzing]

I also agree with Martijn. Don't get your hopes up that Google will solve anything for you..