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    • w1ll1am
      w1ll1am last edited by

      Hi,

      our ecommerce CMS (Magento) is creating a bunch of pages with very little content and no user value like this: http://goo.gl/UU2vl

      This particular example is the by product of a product filtering page, which has the format www.mywebsite/explore/index/loaddata/id/10/.

      These pages have no content other than images - also the pages don't have page titles and are therefore being flagged in webmaster tools as requiring HTML improvements

      We also have CMS auto generated pages like this: www.mysite.comhttp/review/product/list/id/7

      where the page is effectively a duplicate of the product page, and this is giving us pages being flagged by webmastertools as having duplicate title tags.

      Should we exclude these two type of page via robots.txt or take another approach, like not worry about them 🙂

      many thanks, any help gratefully received.

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      • OrionGroup
        OrionGroup last edited by

        It look like the answer you received here might be helpful:

        http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/hSoJMYFsZpo

        I think the robots.txt disallow is a good idea.

        Scott O.

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