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SEO URLs addon for CRE Loaded

CS4 Production Premium

SEO url is a commercial addon for converting links to SEO Friendly format. Almost every cre loaded site requests to have seo friendly urls. In CRE loaded 6.4 pro the addon has become built in feature.

Over the time using this addons I realized a major issue regarding SEO. As you may know issue of duplicate content is major concern for every seo expert. The seo urls addon helps generating duplicate content :) , yes its true.

Consider a product posted in two or more categories, there will two different SEO friendly URLs which will be pointing to same content. For example

http://**/Main-cat-one-subcat-one/c1_21/p1/my-product/product_info.html
http://**/Other-main-cat-other-sub-cat/c2_30/p1/my-product/product_info.html

the two above urls point to same product same content. These links are generated from listing pages.

Even if there are no product listed in multiple categories still different pages like “specials” page can generate duplicate link for same product.

Due to this addon more urls are generated from “Buy Now” links which are like http://**/Main-cat-one-subcat-one/c1_21/p1/my-product/index.html?action=buy_now. These duplicate links are just killing for seo as search engine consider them separate links and expect different content.

How to fix: These issues and some more are fixable and have been fixed for many sites. If you like to get them fixed for your site then contact or post a commit.

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2 Responses to “SEO URLs addon for CRE Loaded”

  1. I’m having this problem. I came from running a heavily modified OS Commerce store that became a pain to update so I migrated my catalogue to CRE and now I seem to have so many different ways of churning out the same page.

    It has hurt me in the search engines, traffic is down by 60%. I 301 redirected all my product pages to the new pages within the catalogue tree.

    Any help really would be appreciated.

  2. If you were using some url rewrite module in with OSC than migrating to SEO URL is a tough ask. You should have analyzed it first only then migrated. If you were using plain urls you can block them in robots.txt file.

    The best you can do is 301 redirects from old pages to new ones. You also need to control pages which google is crawling. SEO URLs have caused google to crawl products pages with and without categories, thus creating duplicate content. The duplicate content will not impact immediately but its likely to hit soon.

    The traffic will get batter but not very soon. Best of the luck.

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