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Thanks Michael for the response. Excuse my poor description by indexing I was refereeing to my ever growing list of crawl errors.

When you say "It looks like not only do you need to resolve any MANAdev issues but you need to do an audit on the site as I think you have several issues."

Is there some obvious errors you can see?

Thanks

Hi,

We use Magento v.1.7 for our store. We have recently had an SEO audit and we have uncovered 2 major issues which can be pinpointed to our layered navigation. We use the MANAdev layered navigation module. There are numerous options available to help with SEO. All our filtered urls seem to be fine ie. https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/childrens-bookcases-shelves/colour/natural-finish-with-letters/letters/lowercase have canonical url correctly setup and the meta tags as noindex, follow  but Magento is churning out tons of 404 error pages like this https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/childrens-bookcases-shelves/show/12/l/colour:24-4-9/letters:6-7 which google  is indexing

I'm at lost at how to solve this any help would be great. Thank you

**This is from our SEO audit report **

The faceted navigation isn’t handled correctly and causes two major issues:● One of the faceted navigation filters causes 404 error. This means that the error isappended each sequence of the navigation options, multiplying the faulty URLs.● The pages created by the faceted nav are all accessible to the search engines. Thismeans that there are hundreds of duplicated category pages created by one of theparameters. The duplication issues can seriously hinder the organic visibility.The amount of 404 errors and the duplicated pages created by faceted navigation makes italmost impossible for a search engine crawler to finish the crawl. This means that the sitemight not be fully indexed and the newly introduced product pages or content won’t bediscovered for a very long time.

Thanks Everett for you response to be honest I think I'm going to separate these questions out on different post as suggested as they concern different elements.

For question 1 - we use a separate layered navigation module by Mandev so I guess by first port of call is to speak to them. Mageworks refuse to deal with that side. There are a ton of options available, plus all sort-by options are NOINDEX, FOLLOW Robots Meta Header.

For question 2 - We do use yoast plugin and I have noindexed all relevant bits causing issues but whether it's an integration issue between Magento and wordpress I'm not sure as I can see no referencing to yoast in our page source code. Below is example for some of the duplicate tags we are getting, I have noindex pages using yoast in wordpress however the code is showing index follow. Also you will see the 2 canonical links as well and no mention of yoast.

Duplicate title tags

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The Tidy Books UK Blog

/blog/

/blog/page/10/

/blog/page/11/

/blog/page/12/

/blog/page/13/

/blog/page/14/

/blog/page/15/

/blog/page/16/

/blog/page/17/

/blog/page/18/

/blog/page/19/

/blog/page/2/

/blog/page/20/

/blog/page/21/

/blog/page/22/

/blog/page/23/

/blog/page/24/

/blog/page/26/

/blog/page/27/

/blog/page/28/

/blog/page/3/

/blog/page/30/

/blog/page/31/

/blog/page/32/

/blog/page/35/

/blog/page/36/

/blog/page/37/

/blog/page/39/

/blog/page/4/

/blog/page/42/

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Hi This is lots of questions and don't expect full answers but if anyone can help or put me in touch with some who can that would be great

so here are 3 issues we have from some auditing our site

Firstly on pages like https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-with-us/sort-by/price/sort-direction/desc so any pages where there is a sortby the cananoical link doesn't seem to be working correctly.

So for here it is https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-with-us/sort-by/price/sort-direction/desc"/>

but should be https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-with-us"/>

secondly with have a lot of duplicate title tags mainly caused from the blog and the above problem see-> http://prntscr.com/b2t9xe

but regarding the blog we have an issue where 2 canonical appearing for example this page
https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/blog/page/19/

there are 2 canonical links appearing

https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/blog/page/19/"/>

we want it to be this
https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/blog/"/>

Thirdly 
Our mobile usability issues have gone up a lot see- > http://prntscr.com/b2tado
I can see what the issue is that this folder https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/skin/frontend/tidybooks/default/images/ was being crawled by google and contains lots of 'index of' pages. I've disallowed directory in robots.txt as shown here -> http://prntscr.com/b2tbc5

is that correct?

any help would be great

Just to let you know

we use magento v1.7

we use SEO suite ultimate extension

and we use fishpigs wordpress extension

thanks

Hi Gianluca thanks for getting back to me.

I see your point there's not fooling Google!

Hi

I work for children's furniture business called Tidy Books. We are based in the UK. We have UK site www.tidy-books.co.uk. We also have a US site www.tidy-books.com which is registered in the US.

We have fully dedicated and translated French, German and Italian site  (www.tidy-books.fr, www.tidy-books.de, www.tidy-books.it)  . These all fall under our UK registered address. What I would like, is to have a French, German and Italian  business address for these website. We just need an address only. This would mainly be used to for Google business listing and other business listings sites to help rank are sites correctly in their country domains. T

Do you know of or recommend any companies that can do this?

Is there any implications I need to be aware of, such as tax?

Thanks

Hi Keszi,

Thank you for the response.  I've added the general Hreflang tags So just the top level part of the domain. ie

and so forth

We use Magento, it's likely I will have to get our developers to do it so I'm seeking some advice to hopefully minimise cost or do it ourselves.

Thanks again

Hi so we need to have the hreflang tags setup so they show the url of that page?

like this?

http://www.tidy-books.eu**/bookcases-storage**" />http://www.tidy-books.co.uk//bookcases-storage" />
http://www.tidy-books.com/bookcases-storage" />
http://www.tidy-books.com.au**/bookcases-storage**" />
http://www.tidy-books.it//mobili-librerie-contenitori-libri" />http://www.tidy-books.fr/bibliotheques" />
http://www.tidy-books.de/http://www.tidy-books.de/kinderbuecher-regal-buecheraufbewahrung-33" />Any ideas of how to do this with oout spending hours manually adding the different urls etc?Cheers

Thanks for the answers I'm going to look into this further with you suggestions

Hi,

I am having some issues with country targeting of our sites.

Just to give a brief background of our setup and web domains

We use magento and have 7 connected ecommerce sites on that magento installation

1.www.tidy-books.co.uk  (UK) - main site

2. www.tidy-books.com (US) - variations in copy but basically a duplicate of UK

3.www.tidy-books.it (Italy) - fully translated by a native speaker - its' own country based social medias and content regularly updated/created

4.www.tidy-books.fr  (France) - fully translated by a native speaker - its' own country based social medias and content regularly updated/created

5.www.tidy-books.de (Germany) - fully translated by a native speaker - uits' own country based social medias and content regularly updated/created

6.www.tidy-books.com.au (Australia) - duplicate of UK

7.www.tidy-books.eu (rest of Europe) - duplicate of UK

I’ve added the country and language href tags to all sites.

We use cross domain canonical URLS

I’ve targeted in the international targeting in Google webmaster the correct country where appropriate

So we are getting number issues which are driving me crazy trying to work out why

The major one is for example

If you search with an Italian IP in google.it  for our brand name Tidy Books the .com site is shown  first then .co.uk and then all other sites followed on page 3 the correct site  www.tidy-books.it

The Italian site is most extreme example but the French and German site still appear below the .com site.

This surely shouldn’t be the case?

Again this problem happens with the co.uk and .com sites with when searching google.co.uk for our keywords the .com often comes up before the .co.uk so it seems we have are sites competing against each other which again can’t be right or good.

The next problem lies in the errors we are getting on google webmaster on all sites is having no return tags in the international targeting section.

Any advice or help would be very much appreciated. I’ve added some screen shots to help illustrate and happy to provide extra details.

Thanks

UK%20hreflang%20errors.png de%20search.png fr%20search.png it%20search.png

Hi,

I am having some issues with country targeting of our sites.

Just to give a brief background of our setup and web domains

We use magento and have 7 connected ecommerce sites on that magento installation

1.www.tidy-books.co.uk  (UK) - main site

2. www.tidy-books.com (US) - variations in copy but basically a duplicate of UK

3.www.tidy-books.it (Italy) - fully translated by a native speaker - its' own country based social medias and content regularly updated/created

4.www.tidy-books.fr  (France) - fully translated by a native speaker - its' own country based social medias and content regularly updated/created

5.www.tidy-books.de (Germany) - fully translated by a native speaker - uits' own country based social medias and content regularly updated/created

6.www.tidy-books.com.au (Australia) - duplicate of UK

7.www.tidy-books.eu (rest of Europe) - duplicate of UK

I’ve added the country and language href tags to all sites.

We use cross domain canonical URLS

I’ve targeted in the international targeting in Google webmaster the correct country where appropriate

So we are getting number issues which are driving me crazy trying to work out why

The major one is for example

If you search with an Italian IP in google.it  for our brand name Tidy Books the .com site is shown  first then .co.uk and then all other sites followed on page 3 the correct site  www.tidy-books.it

The Italian site is most extreme example but the French and German site still appear below the .com site.

This surely shouldn’t be the case?

Again this problem happens with the co.uk and .com sites with when searching google.co.uk for our keywords the .com often comes up before the .co.uk so it seems we have are sites competing against each other which again can’t be right or good.

The next problem lies in the errors we are getting on google webmaster on all sites is having no return tags in the international targeting section.

Any advice or help would be very much appreciated. I’ve added some screen shots to help illustrate and happy to provide extra details.

Thanks

UK%20hreflang%20errors.png de%20search.png fr%20search.png it%20search.png