We have a heavily modified osCommerce site, and are trying to remove all the duplicate URLs that are showing up in the Google index. There are many duplicate pages with different URLs that are showing up for a many reasons, mostly parameters in the URLs. Some are disguised in an Apache mod rewrite for SEO.
The site has is about 600 or so pages, but 17,000 pages are showing up in the Google index. For instance, do a search on Google for:
site:[login to view URL]
I have excluded parameters from the index in Google Webmaster Tools, but they are still showing up in the index.
Here's some examples:
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL];cg=12&color=black
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL]
These are causing "duplicate meta tag" errors in Google Webmaster tools and I am afriad the duplicate content is hurting us, so I'd like to have all the duplicate URLs removed.
Most of those URL parameters are from a menu we used to have that allowed customers to shop by size and color. These menus are no longer used, so the "cg" and "mi" parameters can be completely removed from the website.
This is a live site, so any work done can not affect performance of the site. The site needs to be live with 100% uptime.
REQUIREMENTS:
-remove all duplicate URLs so they do not show up in Google index or under Google Webmaster Tools
-remove URL parameters that are not used ('cg', 'mi', etc.)
-keep 100% uptime
-experience with osCommerce
-experience in SEO
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