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Category: Computers & Internet

osCommerce and duplicate content

If you’ve got an osCommerce store set up you are probably fighting a duplicate content problem with the search engines. The problem is that OSC has an almost limitless number of ways to view any one particular product page – 1 for each category that the product is in plus one without any category information. The cPath variable in the query string is the culprint.

Here’s how I got around it and my search engine traffic, as small as it is, has been growing.