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December 8, 2012, 08:07 AM
#1
Senior Member
Duplicate content (listings) issue within Geo Filtering
I have noticed an issue with duplicate listings when using Geo Filtering.
As you can see below, the same listing uses different URLs:
general.demoflynax.com/united-states/listings/clothing-and-shoes/women-s-accessories/big-buddha-pippin-20.html
general.demoflynax.com/listings/clothing-and-shoes/women-s-accessories/big-buddha-pippin-20.html
The problem is that Google Panda will give a Penalty to such website with pages full of duplicate content (listings).
The best practice is to place all Listings under separate Directory “/listings/”, as shown on example below:
general.demoflynax.com/listings/big-buddha-pippin-20.html
general.demoflynax.com/listings/big-buddha-pippin-201.html
general.demoflynax.com/listings/big-buddha-pippin-2002.html
Last edited by PGGO; December 8, 2012 at 08:09 AM.
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December 8, 2012, 08:58 AM
#2
Master
I think it's better that it only uses geofiltering. If you are using the plugin you are using it for a reason.
Im using it to sort listings based on what state and county the listing are in, i dont really want it to show up as a "normal" link
general.demoflynax.com/united-states/listings/
instead of
general.demoflynax.com/listings/
The link below are from swedens bigget sell site.
http://www.blocket.se/blekinge/Fina_....htm?ca=22&w=1
As you can see it have /blekinge/ wich is a state in sweden. This is better for location SEO
So if we use the geo plugin it should automaticly turn of the normal links and only use the geo links.
I have just started on the SEO section of my site as the site is done, i see some SEO problems with the script
Last edited by Peter Jonsson; December 8, 2012 at 06:54 PM.
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December 17, 2012, 08:45 AM
#3
Guru
I will try to find way to do links depending on listing location and not of current applied location, it will solve the issue and it's the only right way i see to solve it.
Hope it will be done in the next plugin update.
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April 3, 2013, 06:12 AM
#4
Senior Member
Mike,
I noticed another problem with Geo Filter considering duplicate content.
As you can see below, the same categories use different URLs:
http://general.demoflynax.com/united...tings/cameras/
http://general.demoflynax.com/listings/cameras/
Is it possible to block categories with normal links and display only categories with locations (Geo Filtering)?