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Re: Is there a HTACCESS string that stops duplicate pages?

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:26 pm
by Celauran
There's the proxy flag.

Re: Is there a HTACCESS string that stops duplicate pages?

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:45 pm
by simonmlewis
That line in HTACCESS is what is putting / at the end of Prod, Cat and Sub URLs.
If I go to a Product page wtihout the /, it throws a 404. If I go to it with a /, it works.
Is there a script I can use in HTACCESS which will force a / in all prod, cat and subcat urls only?

Re: Is there a HTACCESS string that stops duplicate pages?

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:03 am
by simonmlewis
Hi.

We have decided to go without the slashes, for many reasons.

But we do have some minor queries. In Webmasters if the uRL has for example:

/clearance-sales&order=title%20ASC, it's a hyperlink that orders the results by title.

The Robots stops Google caching/seeing these, but brings it up as a "warning", but not as an error.
Is this bad???

If we did it like this:
/clearance-sales/order/titleasc, and I used the value of titleasc in a query to order by title ASC, that would work, but is it going to mean some pages could be "duplicate". For example, if a page had just 15 items on it, then ordering it would still have the same content (though in a different order).

Is that bad?

Trying to establish best way to "order" pages for the consumer without upsetting Search Engine crawlers.

Re: Is there a HTACCESS string that stops duplicate pages?

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:26 am
by Celauran
How many pages are going to have 15 or fewer items? I'm no SEO expert, but it sounds like you might be worrying about edge cases.