I have just checked my Google Webmaster account and have seen that they have an issue with Duplicate Title tags caused by my PT Shop.
PT is generating duplicate title tags from the Category and Page.
Is there a way of ensuring that this doesn't happen?
I've also seen duplicate title tag issues like this (note the ASC and DESC)..
/shop/search.php?q=category%3AIP+Phones%3A&page=31&sort=priceAsc
/shop/search.php?q=category%3AIP+Phones%3A&page=31&sort=priceDesc
Hi,
That's interesting - and it relates to something I read about just recently where you can provide "canonical" version of a URL in the header to avoid indexing of "same but different" pages like this - so i'll look into whether that's an option.
In the mean time, of course one could add the page number and sort order to the page title. To do this, look for the following code on line 154 of search.php
$header["title"] = htmlentities($q,ENT_QUOTES,$config_charset);...and REPLACE this with the following block:
$header["title"] = htmlentities($q,ENT_QUOTES,$config_charset);if ($page > 1) $header["title"] .= " (Page: ".$page.")";
if ($sort != "relevance") $header["title"] .= " (Sort: ".$sort.")";
Alternatively, you might feel it worthwhile excluding /search.php from being indexed via robots.txt; which might free-up a search engine's resources to focus on your product page - however you might be receiving good traffic to these indexed search.php pages in which case that's not a good idea...!
Cheers,
David.