Crawl Diagnostics: Duplicate Content Issues

[inhouseseo]

The Moz crawl diagnostic is showing that I have some duplicate content issues on my site. For the most part, these are variations of the same product that are listed individually (i.e size/color).

What would be the best way to deal with this? Choose one variation of the product and add a canonical tag?

Thanks

[danatanseo]

Hi inhouseSEO,

The canonical tag would be an appropriate solution to these duplicate content issues. Another solution, depending on your CMS, would be to incorporate those variation pages into one hub page that allowed customers to select size and color without providing an individual page for each variation to search engines or users. There are a number of ways to accomplish depending upon what CMS your are using. It also depends on whether or not your site is using faceted navigation, which opens up a whole additional can of worms.

That's a very high level answer. If you want something more granular based on your type of navigation and CMS I encourage you to respond because a lot of other site owners here could probably benefit from the discussion.

Cheers,

Dana

[Luanncap]

I have the same issue and would like to locate an excellent SEO that can assist with this issue.  MOZ does not make recommendations but would love to hear from others who may have worked with someone who is familiar with, and works with Shopify