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Thanks, I'll set up some tests to see if this proves anything either way

Thanks

Also just to add, with regard to product pages - we link to the SKU page in email marketing & these URL's with the SKU are what users can find when searching in the onsite search facility.

As the urls with the SKU's will get more traffic & active users through other mediums, could this affect how Google rates them?

With regard to internal links we link the the permanent URL and not the SKU URL however

Great thank you.

Do you know of any good internal duplicate content checkers? I am looking at copyscape or siteliner.

Thanks

Great thanks for your input.

With regard to the duplicate content, it's not so much on these pages which are canonicalised, it's more so on ranges of products under separate URLs. e.g. Storage boxes

A lot of the ranges are so similar, that the product description points are the same and I wanted to include some unique text - if it's worth doing

Thanks!

Hi

I have a couple of questions regarding the best way to optimise SKU pages on a large ecommerce site.

At the moment we have 2 landing pages per product - one is the primary landing page with no SKU, the other includes the SKU in the URL so our sales people & customers can find it when using the search facility on the site. The SKU landing page has a canonical pointing to the primary page as they're duplicates.

Is this the best way? Or is it better to have the one page with the SKU in the URL?

Also, we have loads of products with the very similar product descriptions, I am working on trying to include a unique paragraph or few sentences on these to improve the content - how dangerous is the duplicate content within your own site?

I know its best to have totally unique content, but it won't be possible on a site with thousands of products and a small team. At the moment I am trying to prioritise the products to update.

Thank you

Hi David

Thank you for this. How often is the index updated?

Great thank you!

Cool I'll give it a go thanks for the help!

Great thanks I'll give this a go! Do you need to set up a campaign for Moz to crawl your site first?

Thanks!

Great thanks, the only problem I found was you can only check 10 links at a link with that review tool - I need to do a lot more

Hi

Is there a way in Moz to identify your page authority by landing page, possibly crawling the site and providing this in bulk so you don't have to go through and check each page?

I want to track how my page authority for certain pages moves over time.

Thank you

Yep working on these asap!

So it won't affect overall domain authority?

Hi

I have done a site crawl and there are a lot of 302's on the 'Go to Basket' link when customers go through to pay.

Should these be updated to 301's? On just the first part of the link so nothing after the ? /OrderCalculation?

Thank you

Great thank you!

I'll give both a go!

Great thanks

Yes I use screaming frog for this, but it was to look at actual page content. So yes to see if sites copy our content, but also to see whether we need to update our product content as some products are very similar.

I'll check the batch process on copyscape thanks!

Hi

I wondered if there's a tool to analyse duplicate content - within your own site or on external sites, but that you can upload the URL's you want to check in bulk?

I used Copyscape a while ago, but don't remember this having a bulk feature?

Thank you!

Great answers, thank you for the links!

Hi Dirk,

Great thank you, I don't get any on my site crawls so that's a plus!

Hi

We regularly have products which are no longer sold and discontinued. As we have such a large site, webmaster tools regularly picks up new 404's.

These 404 pages aren't linked to from anywhere on the site any longer, however WMT will still report them as errors. Does this affect site authority?

Thank you