Duplicate Content

[OOMDODigital]

Hi,

I'm working on a site and I'm having some issues with its structure causing duplicate content.

The first issue is that the search pages will show up as duplicates. 
A search for new inventory may be new.aspx
The duplicate may be something like new.aspx=page1, or something like that and so on.

The second issue is with inventory. When new inventory gets put into the stock of the store, a new page for that item will be populated with duplicate content. There appears to be no canonical source for that page.

How can I fix both of these?

Thanks!

[EvolveCreative]

Forgive me, but couldn't you just add the cannonical?

[OOMDODigital]

That's actually one solution I was thinking of. I just wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas.

[Everett]

I can't imagine a modern eCommerce platform creating a new product page URL every time you added more stock for an existing product. Perhaps this is being done incorrectly? Does it have something to do with how the SKU or product ID is entered, or some other user error? If not, I'd suggest changing platforms.

In the meantime I guess rel canonicaling to one of them would work, but what happens when someone buys from that page/product ID? Is there only ever 1 in stock and, if so, does the URL go away/404/redirect when that happens? I think rel canonical would be a band-aid in this case.

Let us know how it works out. Which eCommerce platform is it?