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Why is my site showing so many duplicate pages and titles

by andrewellis3
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I've just ran both my site through SEOMOZ and its reporting a large amount of duplicate errors

one site have around 500 duplicate page content and 340 duplicate titles

the other is showing 750 duplicate pages and 557 duplicate titles

both sites are on joomla and use the SEF404 plugin, examples of the URL's coming up as duplicate are

Downloads | Shower Installation Guides
Downloads | Shower Installation Guides

though i expect this is due to the template of the site, but there are others like for the product pages

Fresssh Cerna Basin Taps | Basin Taps | Taps | Steam Shower Supply
Fresssh Cerna Basin Taps | Basin Taps | Taps | Steam Shower Supply

both are for the same product but come as two different url's, seemingly every product has this issue

Will this effect on page SEO
#duplicate #pages #showing #site #titles
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    ok i've since found out the issue is like this guy explains
    Hi there, I'm running Joomla 1.5.14 and VM 1.1.3 with SH404SEF 1.0.16_Beta - build_222.

    I've noticed in webmaster tools that I have many pages with duplicate meta tags... the source of these duplicates are the pop=0 and pop=1 pages.

    What I mean is this : I'll have a page http://www.mysite.com/category/product1.html

    Then I'll have a duplicate of that page http://www.mysite.com/category/product1.html?pop=0 and ?pop=1 how do I make the pop=0 pages noindex ? Is there a reason why these pages even exist?

    What I'm looking for is a way to make these pop=0 pages "noindex" is there a way to do this easily?

    i now know this is to do with the view next product link on each of the product pages pages
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