We recently purchased and implemented CDSEO hoping that the cannocical URL feature would overcome duplicate content errors from google but it seems that either its not configured correctly on our end or its not possible the way our short and long descriptions are setup.
Basically is there a way to force CDSEO or google to index only the last page - IE - the detailed description pages for each product?
Why - Because on our site the "short description and detailed description text are the same" for each product.
The problem is google see this as duplicate content or partially duplicate we suspect.
Example:
URL
http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/kdp-51ws655/
Goes to Category "TV Repair Kits / Sony / Projection / KDP-51WS655"
At this category level there are two products listed for this Sony TV model. Each product is unique with unique descriptions....But if you drill down into each product the detailed description on those pages will match at least one of the products on the page before.
The detailed page for one of the products....
http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sony-kdp-51ws655-convergence-repair-kit.html
So at the very least google would see at least 50% of the content on the prior page as duplicate. If we had a dozen products in the root category it may not matter...but in most cases we have just one product or two.
I hope my description of the problem makes sense. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.