I have been sent this to implement from the SEO company commissioned by a client. I would like to know any views you people may have? Tech Support say that it is customisation and therefore not supported. Has anyone any supportive ideas?
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- Canonical tag to be included on all pages.
As many pages can be accessed through a ‘friendly’ url as well as the cgi-bin url, this created duplicate content so we need to tell the search engines which page is the original.
If there is a variable to output the ‘friendly’ url, it should be used to produce the following in the <head> of each page;
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/acatalog/Red_Ella_Over_The_Bust_Corset_With_Lace.html" />
- Header: add link to logo, set link href to “/” (for usability).
- Header: change Home link href to “/”, change Products href to “/acatalog/”.
- Sidebars: change ‘Website Home’ link href to “/”.
- Page URLs – all pages (except shopping cart/checkout, members login and search related pages) should have a ‘friendly’ url version that doesn’t use the /cgi-bin/ss000001.pl URL, and be linked to at this friendly URL.
All products on the home page, and various product descriptions link to the cgi-bin URL of pages; these must be updated.
Ideally we want to remove references to the cgi-bin (except as described above), then block search engines from that section of the website.
As many pages can be accessed through a ‘friendly’ url as well as the cgi-bin url, this created duplicate content so we need to tell the search engines which page is the original.
If there is a variable to output the ‘friendly’ url, it should be used to produce the following in the <head> of each page;
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/acatalog/Red_Ella_Over_The_Bust_Corset_With_Lace.html" />
- Header: add link to logo, set link href to “/” (for usability).
- Header: change Home link href to “/”, change Products href to “/acatalog/”.
- Sidebars: change ‘Website Home’ link href to “/”.
- Page URLs – all pages (except shopping cart/checkout, members login and search related pages) should have a ‘friendly’ url version that doesn’t use the /cgi-bin/ss000001.pl URL, and be linked to at this friendly URL.
All products on the home page, and various product descriptions link to the cgi-bin URL of pages; these must be updated.
Ideally we want to remove references to the cgi-bin (except as described above), then block search engines from that section of the website.
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