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[pfarcus]

Would having the same product under more than one category count as "duplicate content" for google?

please and thank you.

[Stizerg]

How can I change links like '/help.php?section=shipping' to '/shipping.html'?

thanks

[Jon]

Originally Posted by pfarcus

Would having the same product under more than one category count as "duplicate content" for google?

please and thank you.

No, all products have one url so regardless of the category listed in, the link to the product will be the same.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Stizerg

How can I change links like '/help.php?section=shipping' to '/shipping.html'?

thanks

I always prefer to use static pages but you can also manually change the templates to link to /shipping.html and then use mod rewrite in your .htaccess file as follows:

Open .htaccess and find:

RewriteEngine On

After add:

RewriteRule ^shipping\.html$ /help.php?section=shipping [L]

[Stizerg]

"Continue shopping" button for CDSEO PRO users.
http://forum.x-cart.com/showpost.php?p=255002&postcount=74

I'll be happy if Jon can improve it.

[DogByteMan]

Why does CDSEO Pro only put the page number on the meta_title tag and not add a page number to the meta_description tag. This is causing duplicate description alerts at Google Webmaster Tools. I turned Category and Manufacturer meta_descriptions off and used a mod for this but now I have to maintain two database functions to do it.

Also I love the XML sitemap. IS over 10,000 urls in one sitemap too many though?

[Jon]

Simply having the page number in the meta descriptions in the majority of all cases isn't enough for engines to see the content as 'unique.' We are investigating ways to better customize sub-pages for future CDSEO versions.

The sitemap can have up to 50,000 urls.

[DogByteMan]

So if I understand correctly, even though it does get rid of the errors on Google Webmaster Tools, in reality they are still seeing it as somewhat just a duplication and penalizing as such.

[Jon]

Search engines don't penalize for duplicate content, if anything they just rank one page higher than the next. The page titles being changed and having unique urls, prevents duplicate content, though its still ideal to have unique meta keywords and meta descriptions. in the case of sub-pages of a category I don't believe it will have any adverse affect by just duplicating meta descriptions since the description is in fact accurate, but we are investigating possible solutions for this in future cdseo versions.

[retrtrtrytrutru]

Hi Jon,

I've been looking at CDSEO Pro for use with our website. At the moment we're using XC SEO v1.4.0 but I think CDSEO is a lot better. We're using X-Cart v4.1.8. Questions I have;

Our website is updated several times a day (new products, product changes, etc.) via a local Access database. We have a product database of roughly 11.000 products, I have no time to write nice URLs myself afterwards, does CDSEO generate the SEO friendly URLs on-the-fly? Of course, when I have time enough I will export all data so CSV and create better URLs but this will not happen often.. I need to be sure new products will also get a clean URL whenever they are added.

We have no actual product detail pages. We only use Manufacturers and Categories, can CDSEO Pro generate links like Manufacturer-Category.html ? See for example a page of our website:

http://www.qualitylamps.eu/dx60-projector-lamp-c-487.html?manid=1050

It would be great if CDSEO would transfer the mentioned link to:

http://www.qualitylamps.eu/3M-DX60-lamp.html

(Manufacturer, Category, addital keyword "lamp")

Looking forward to hearing from you. At the moment we have a test server set-up so we can experiment without messing with the live site

Thanks!
Dennis