Second question....
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 and not the short description page?
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 is a products listed for this Sony TV model. If you drill down intothe product the detailed description on that pages will match the one on the page page before.
The detailed page for one of the products....
So at the very least google would see at least some 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.
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