Fixing temporary redirects

[Mediademon]

Hi all,

I recently had an issue whereby the Moz crawl was showing up thousands of instances of duplicate content. I solved (or so I thought) this issue on a Magento-based eCommerce website by enabling canonical URL tagging on product pages and category landing pages.

This reduced the instances of duplicate content dramatically (by the thousands!) however it created a new issue of thousands of temporary redirects.

All of the research I have done has suggested that I should be setting these as permanent redirects somehow, but I am not sure how to do this or how to resolve this issue.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much.

Josh

[LesleyPaone]

This is an issue with how Magento handles the canonical urls. Your best bet would be to use the Yoast canonical url module for Magento, it specifically fixes this issue. http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Yoast/extension/906/canonical-url-s-for-magento

[Mediademon]

Thanks a lot Lesley, really appreciate it!

We currently use a Creare SEO plugin for Magento which appears to solve the issue of duplicate content but then creates another issue of temporary redirects. Will try Yoast and see how things go.

Thanks again.