Magento: Moz finding URL and URL?p=1 as duplicate. Solution?

[MozAddict]

Good day Mozzers!

Moz bot is finding URL's in the Catalogue pages with the format www.example.com/something and www.example.com/something?p=1 as duplicate (since they are the same page)

Whats the best solution to implement here? Canonical? Any other?

Cheers!

MozAddict

[MattAntonino]

Canonical will help yes, but also if the pages ARE duplicate content, you can block them in robots and let Google know in Webmasters Tools under URL Parameters.

[evan89]

Is there only one page? Is there a www.example.com/something?p=2 and www.example.com/something?p=3 as well? If this is the case, you may want to look into rel="prev/next".

[David-Kley]

I agree. Use robots to filter out bad urls, and set your url parameters in webmaster tools. Careful if you dont know how to use this, as you can potentially get rid of urls you want. Read up on it first.

[MozAddict]

This is for the category pages. Since we have many products in the category, there are many pages as well. We are currently using rel next prev, but not canonical. The problem is that Magento generates two URLs for the first category page for all categories:

www.example.com/category

www.example.com/category?p=1

I dont see how we could block these in robots.txt or parameters, because then they wouldnt be crawled at all?

[evan89]

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!