The Four Duplicate Content Traps in E-commerce
The four structural defects that cause retail platforms to generate large volumes of duplicate URLs without anyone deciding to.
Analogy Mental model
A photocopier jammed on repeat, printing the same leaflet and pinning a copy to every floor of the building.
In practice What you actually do
Audit these in the first week. Multiple paths to one product, where the same item is reachable through every collection it belongs to, is the most common and the most wasteful. Then check case and trailing-slash inconsistency, uncontrolled filter parameters, and manufacturer descriptions reused verbatim across the catalogue.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Fixing the collection-path issue alone, so that every internal link points at the canonical product address, frequently produces a double-digit traffic gain on a catalogue of a few thousand items.
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