Duplicate Content - Multiple URL's

[Mike.Bean]

I know a few of these problems come from products being in the same categories but I have no idea how to get rid of the url's that are showing duplicate content when the product is in the exact same place. Hard to explain, but here are URL examples.

http://www.ocelco.com/store/pc/www.ocelco.com/store/pc/Bathtub-Floor-Corner-Stainless-Steel-Grab-Bar-Right-Hand-left-hand-pictured-688p3308.htm

http://www.ocelco.com/store/pc/www.ocelco.com/store/pc/Bathtub-Floor-Corner-Stainless-Steel-Grab-Bar-Right-Hand-left-hand-pictured-696p3308.htm

http://www.ocelco.com/store/pc/Bathtub-Floor-Corner-Stainless-Steel-Grab-Bar-Right-Hand-left-hand-pictured-p3308.htm

http://www.ocelco.com/store/pc/Bathtub-Floor-Corner-Stainless-Steel-Grab-Bar-Right-Hand-left-hand-pictured-688p3308.htm

Any Idea's how to fix / get rid of these URL's?

Thanks!

[ToriC]

Hey there, Mike!

This is a very common problem with SEOs. If you want to get rid of the duplicate, I would suggest implementing a 301 redirect or rel=canonical tag to the title. Here's an article explain how to use either of those.

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[Andy.Drinkwater]

What are you using to power the site Mike?

I would suggest looking at the site configuration, or contact the developers and ask them how to correct this, as it looks a lot like a mis-configuration somewhere. 301's might help for now, but you need to figure out why these extra pages are being created because I suspect that if you add additional products, the same issue will surface again.

Also when I look at the first two links, I have a lot of rendering issues, that I don't see on the bottom 2 links. Definitely something amiss.

-Andy

[Mike.Bean]

Andy,

I agree, I am not getting much help from our developers. All I know is these url's shouldn't be there and I can't even access them on the back end, only the one original product page.

I don't know how to remove them.

Thanks,

- Mike Bean

[Andy.Drinkwater]

That must be really frustrating for you Mike.

I am not surprised you can't access them at the back-end as these are almost always a by-product of the e-commerce system. So many don't care about what extra churn the sites produce.

You could always robots out those bad pages? Just something like:

Disallow: /store/pc/www.ocelco.com/*

This should still readily allow everything else to be indexed after http://www.ocelco.com/store/pc/...

Give it a try and then run the site through Screaming Frog and see if these bad pages are then picked up.

-Andy