muhsinb Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 I installed SEO URLs a while back and I've just noticed that i have 2 links per item. One like: http://www.electronicmanuals.co.uk/audi-20...nual-p-111.html and one like: http://www.electronicmanuals.co.uk/audi-c-...nual-p-111.html Surely search engines are going to penalise me for this. What do i have to do to rectify this? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 They are differenct links. Why would they penalize you? Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhsinb Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 They are differenct links. Why would they penalize you? Jack Hi Jack...both links point to the same place and have exactly the same content. Thing is i have cNames turned of in Admin -> Config. Is this normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Oh, I see. I didn't go to the pages - just looked at the links. I think you could be asking for trouble having it set that way since that is prety much the definition of duplicate content. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhsinb Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 Oh, I see. I didn't go to the pages - just looked at the links. I think you could be asking for trouble having it set that way since that is prety much the definition of duplicate content. Jack So how am i suppose to rectify this? Is there anything i can do? Muhsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 You need to determine what is causing it. Is it because you have the same product in two different cateogires? Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 One of the urls containign /audic-c-22/ is not a standard system generated url , where did you get it from? Quote Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 you could have installed seo incorrectly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhsinb Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 You need to determine what is causing it. Is it because you have the same product in two different cateogires? Jack Nope...i definately don't have items in 2 different categories. But the rest of categories and products are doing the same thing. However, all the indexing, which Google is doing, it doesn't seem to pickup the cName only pNames (i do have cNames switched off), which should be good in a way i guess, because google must be thinking the products are all at the same level, ie not going down deep ... (oooeer)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhsinb Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 One of the urls containign /audic-c-22/ is not a standard system generated url , where did you get it from? Something weird is going on LOL...i could put anything in the cName section for example: http://www.electronicmanuals.co.uk/YOU SMELL OF POO/audi-a8-inc-s8-workshop-manual-p-116.html and it still take me to the correct link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhsinb Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 you could have installed seo incorrectly Possible but unlikely. I rechecked everything lastnight over and over again and it was all good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Something weird is going on LOL...i could put anything in the cName section for example: http://www.electronicmanuals.co.uk/YOU SMELL OF POO/audi-a8-inc-s8-workshop-manual-p-116.html and it still take me to the correct link! Its not wrong....the system only uses p-116 to indentify the product ...so any text before that is not used as such... This should not give you any problems in regards to duplicate content unless you make manual links on your site yourself. The system automatically generates consistant individual links/urls which is the ones the search engine bots will find and index. Quote Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhsinb Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 Its not wrong....the system only uses p-116 to indentify the product ...so any text before that is not used as such... This should not give you any problems in regards to duplicate content unless you make manual links on your site yourself. The system automatically generates consistant individual links/urls which is the ones the search engine bots will find and index. Hi Toycie, thanks for clarifying...google is indexing my website very well ... over 50 pages so far and none of them refer to cNames, which is good...hence no duplicate content...PHEW! I was worried google would ban me for spamming or something! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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