I really need some help with Magento and Duplicate Page Content results I;m getting

[tidybooks]

Hi,

We use Magento for our eCommerce platform and I'm getting a number of duplicate page content results.

It mainly concerns the duplicate page content errors for our category pages.

Firstly It seems like the product type and filter options highlighted in the picture are causing duplicate page content

Also one particularity category is getting a lot from duplicate page content errors , http://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-all-products

I understand that this category page is using duplicate pages of other category pages so I set this to exclude them from the site map but it looks likes its till being picked up?

I've attached the csv file showing these errors as well. - >

Any help would be massively appreciated

Thanks

filter.png moz-tidy-books-uk-crawl_issues-01-OCT-2014.csv

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

Without looking at these issues in more detail, it can be awkward to see exactly what is going on.

That said, if you are looking to exclude pages from Google via the sitemap, this won't do an awful lot for you. You will need to noindex the pages, or better still, use rel=canonical tags to tell Google which pages are duplicate and which ones they should reference.

Remember that the sitemap and canonical are only suggestions to Google and there is still a chance that they can bypass them, although that isn't the case the vast majority of times.

-Andy

[kayintveen_MD]

This is one of the great joys of Magento. Luckily we are magento specialists here to help

First be sure that you setup the canonical URL setting for category pages! 
in System->Configuration->catalog->SEO

Second Noindex,Follow al filtered view (has to be done with a technical change, if you need help contact me)

You can also read this great resource by Yoast.

[tidybooks]

Great thanks microdesign and iQseo